Ernest Rutherford and the Atoms
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J. L. Heilbron
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Library
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2003
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Oxford University Press, USA
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English
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This biography chronicles the life and scientific work of the down-to-earth New Zealander who became one of the legendary pioneers of subatomic physics. Rutherford's three major discoveries-including his 1912 revelation that atoms contained nucleuses-created the field of nuclear physics and helped s