Ernest Rutherford
Subtitle: And the Explosion of Atoms (Oxford Portraits in Science)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: April 12, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780195123784
First sentence: A little more than a century before Ernest Rutherford's birth on August 30, 1871, Captain James Cook, the great explorer and geographer, made the first extensive survey of the coasts of New Zealand.
Description: A biography of the scientist considered to be the father of nuclear physics for his development of the nuclear theory of the atom in 1911 and discovery of alpha and beta rays and protons.