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Rutherford and the nature of the atom (Science study series) (edition 1964)

by E. N. da C Andrade (Author)

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Born in New Zealand in 1871, Rutherford came to Cambridge in 1895, where he did notable research on the electrical properties of gases. This lead to his appointment as Professor at McGill University in Montreal, where he carried out fundamental investigations on radioactivity, which he continued at the University of Manchester. Here he first put forward the nuclear structure of the atom with which his name is inseparably connected. At Cambridge, as head of the Cavendish Laboratory from 1919 to his death in 1937, he conducted and inspired work on the properties and disruption of the atomic nucleus which ushered in a new era in physics.… (more)
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Title:Rutherford and the nature of the atom (Science study series)
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Info:Doubleday (1964), Edition: First Edition, 218 pages
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Born in New Zealand in 1871, Rutherford came to Cambridge in 1895, where he did notable research on the electrical properties of gases. This lead to his appointment as Professor at McGill University in Montreal, where he carried out fundamental investigations on radioactivity, which he continued at the University of Manchester. Here he first put forward the nuclear structure of the atom with which his name is inseparably connected. At Cambridge, as head of the Cavendish Laboratory from 1919 to his death in 1937, he conducted and inspired work on the properties and disruption of the atomic nucleus which ushered in a new era in physics.

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La figura di Ernest Rutherford occupa un posto di particolare rilievo nella storia della fisica moderna: dal suo lavoro e da quello della sua scuola è nata la fisica nucleare. L'autore di questo libro, illustre storico della scienza, rievoca le tappe principali della vita di Rutherford, dalla natia Nuova Zelanda al Laboratorio Cavendish di Cambridge, Inghilterra, dove compì le sue importanti ricerche, sulla ionizzazione dei gas, poi a Montreal, Canada, dove studiò le leggi fondamentali della radioattività (lavoro per cui ebbe il premio Nobel per la Chimica nel 1908), poi a Manchester dove compì le sue celebri imprese, la prima proposta di un modello di struttura dell'atomo e la disintegrazione artificiale di un nucleo, infine di nuovo a Cambridge alla direzione di quel Laboratorio Cavendish che aveva visto i suoi primi passi di scienziato. Una biografia che coincide in gran parte con la storia stessa della fisica e in cui intervengono personaggi come:  J.J. Thompson, Frederick Soddy, Otto Hahn, Hans Geiger, Niels Bohr, James Chadwick, Occhialini, Patrick Blackett, Peter Kapitza.
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