Ernest Rutherford
C L Boltz
Heron Books 1970
ISBN None
375 pages. Hard Cover.
33 black/white photos embedded in the text.
Purchasing Details.
Out of Print
My Comments on This Book.
This book is one of a series The Great Nobel Prizes whose editor is Courtland
Canby. Due to the lack of advertising in this book it might have been the first of the
series. The concept is a good one, a series of nice, easy-to-read, compact books about the
most important Nobel prizewinners.
Boltz never met Rutherford but knew the Cavendish Laboratory and knew and talked to George Crowe,
Rutherford's assistant, and other people who worked with Rutherford. He otherwise drew
mainly on Eve's biography plus Rutherford's published papers.
It's a good book.
Errors Noted.
None noted but I am due to read it again carefully.
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Contents
|
Editor's Foreword |
3
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Chapter |
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1 |
Education of a Genius |
3
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2 |
Cambridge Initiation |
30
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3 |
Change of Direction |
44
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4 |
Founding his First School |
62
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5 |
Rutherford at McGill |
74
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6 |
Rutherford at Manchester |
105
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7 |
World War I |
153
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8 |
Rutherford the Great at Cambridge |
164
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9 |
The Work of a Scientist |
215
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10 |
The Radio Detector |
222
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11 |
Early Atomics |
288 |
12 |
Radioactivity |
240
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13 |
The Nuclear Atom |
261
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14 |
Nuclear Physics |
278
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15 |
The Rutherford Contribution |
291
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Historical Appendix |
309
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Glossary |
357
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Sources of Illustrations |
365
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Acknowledgements |
367
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Index |
371
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