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Ernest Rutherford : And the Explosion of Atoms (Oxford portraits in science) by John L. Heilbron is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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An engaging biography that captures the excitement of the early days of nuclear physics, Ernest Rutherford tells the story of the down-to-earth New Zealander who became one of the foremost pioneers of subatomic physics. Rutherford's achievements were numerous and included:* Inventing a detector for electromagnetic waves* Discovering the existence of alpha and beta rays in uranium radiation* Creating (with Frederick Soddy) the "disintegration theory" of radioactivity, which regards radioactive ph
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- John L. Heilbron
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780195123784
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Education, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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