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Originally published over one hundred years ago, "Radioactive Transformations" describes Ernest Rutherford's Nobel Prize-winning research on radioactive matter. Rutherford outlines the scientific investigations that led to and coincided with Rutherford's own research - including the work of Wilhem Rontgen, J.J. Thomson, and Marie Curie - and explains in detail the experiments that provided a glimpse at special relativity, quantum mechanics, and other concepts that would shape twentieth-century physics. This new edition of Rutherford's classic work features a comprehensive introduction by Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek that provides historical context and also explains how Rutherford's early research led to a better understanding of topics as diverse as the age of our planet, the workings of the atom's nucleus, and the fusion in stars.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Science: general issues History of science

• Full title: Radioactive Transformations
• Author: Ernest Rutherford, Frank Wilczek
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9780300181302
• ISBN: 0300181302
• ID: 01201130
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Weight: 400 g
• Dimensions: 211 × 141 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. September 2012

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