Radioactive Transformations - Softcover

Rutherford, Ernest

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1603550542 ISBN 13: 9781603550543

Publisher: Juniper Grove, 2007

Synopsis

Radioactive Transformations contains the subject matter of the eleven lectures Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) delivered under the Silliman Foundation at Yale University in March, 1905. These lectures detailed the results of his experiments on the spontaneous degradation of radioactive substances. Following his first book, Radio-Activity, Radioactive Transformations was yet another seminal work on radioactive materials by this brilliant, energetic scientist who laid the foundations for modern nuclear chemistry and physics. Indeed, the work was so valuable that in 1908 Rutherford was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on the disintegration of elements and the chemistry of radioactive substances. This book is a photo-reproduction of the original 1906 edition. It contains all of Rutherford's original text, charts,and diagrams.

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About the Author:

Ernest Rutherford, famous for his discoveries in nuclear physics, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908 for his research on radioactive substances. Frank Wilczek shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of quantum chromodynamics. He is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of three books, including The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces.

About this edition

• Publisher: Juniper Grove
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1603550542
• ISBN 13: 9781603550543
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298