Hydrogen
Subtitle: the essential element
By: John S. Rigden.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Hydrogen; Science -- Methodology
Description: In this biography of hydrogen, John Rigden shows how this singular atom, the most abundant in the universe, has helped unify our understanding of the material world from the smallest scale, the elementary particles, to the largest, the universe itself.

Still, any biography of hydrogen has to end with a question: What new surprises await us?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-270) and index.