Rutherford, simple genius
By: David Wilson.
Edition: 1st MIT Press ed.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 638
Subjects: Rutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937.; Physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Nuclear physics -- History.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 621-625.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: New Zealand education; title: First research; title: The wide, wide world; title: Science in Cambridge; title: Radioactivity; title: Life in North America; title: Last years in Canada; title: Starting at Manchester; title: Science international; title: The atom; title: The atom in action; title: Rutherford at war; title: The atom is smashed; title: Cambridge and the Cavendish; title: Politics and power; title: Kapitsa; title: Final triumphs.