Overview
A new intellectual biography of Ernest Rutherford, the twentieth century's greatest experimental physicist. Ernest Rutherford, who grew up in colonial New Zealand and came to Cambridge on a scholarship, made numerous revolutionary discoveries, among them the orbital structure of the atom and the concept of the half-life of radioactive materials, which led to a massive re-evaluation of the age of the earth―previously judged just 100 million years old. Above all, perhaps, Rutherford and the young men working under him were the first to split the atom, unlocking tremendous forces―forces, as Rutherford himself predicted, that would bring us the atomic bomb. Rutherford, awarded a Nobel Prize and made Baron Rutherford by the queen of England, was also a great ambassador of science, coming to the aid of colleagues caught in the Nazi and Soviet regimes. Under Rutherford's rigorous and boisterous direction, a whole new generation of remarkable physicists emerged. In Richard Reeves's hands, Rutherford leaps off the page, a ruddy, genial man and a towering figure in scientific history.
Full Product Details
Author: Richard Reeves ,
Alex Hyde-White
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
Edition: Library Edition
ISBN: 9798212004695
Publication Date: 27 September 2022
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Reeves deploys his considerable writing skill in portraying Rutherford's personality [and] capturing the full aspect of the man. -- Booklist (starred review) While short, this biography does an outstanding job of capturing the excitement and almost breathless pace of physics research in the twentieth century's first four decades. -- Publishers Weekly
"Reeves deploys his considerable writing skill in portraying Rutherford's personality [and] capturing the full aspect of the man. -- ""Booklist (starred review)"" While short, this biography does an outstanding job of capturing the excitement and almost breathless pace of physics research in the twentieth century's first four decades. -- ""Publishers Weekly"""
Author Information
Richard Reeves is the bestselling author of presidential biographies, including President Nixon and President Kennedy, acclaimed as the best nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine. A syndicated columnist and winner of the American Political Science Association's Carey McWilliams Award, he lives in New York and Los Angeles. Alex Hyde-White is a British-born actor and producer and voice artist. Awards he has won include an International Family Film Festival Award in 2012 and an Audiofile Earphones Award in 2014.
