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Atom (Icon Science)

Atom (Icon Science)

Bizony, Piers
Al-Khalili, Jim

Paperback

Series: Icon Science

Sports GeneralPhysics

Publisher Price: $15.99

ISBN10: 1785782053
ISBN13: 9781785782053
Publisher: Icon Books
Published: Jul 18 2017
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
Riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius, the history of the atom's discovery is as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as the atom itself.

John Dalton gave us the first picture of the atom in the early 1800s. Almost 100 years later the young misfit New Zealander, Ernest Rutherford, showed the atom consisted mostly of space, and in doing so overturned centuries of classical science. It was a brilliant Dane, Neils Bohr, who made the next great leap -- into the incredible world of quantum theory. Yet, he and a handful of other revolutionary young scientists weren't prepared for the shocks Nature had up her sleeve.

This 'insightful, compelling' book (New Scientist) reveals the mind-bending discoveries that were destined to upset everything we thought we knew about reality and unleash a dangerous new force upon the world. Even today, as we peer deeper and deeper into the atom, it throws back as many questions at us as answers.

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