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All About - The Atom
Ira Freeman
1955 All About Books (Random House)
ISBN Nil
149 pages. Hard Cover.
illustrations - line drawings.
Purchasing Details.
Out of Print.
My Comments on This Book.
In this book Rutherford occurs periodically. It was written at the start of the nuclear industrial age, about the time the first nuclear submarine was built,
so some of the looking forward is interesting. My errors are limited to Rutherford. Otherwise the book is a nice, though dated, summary.
Errors Noted.
p53 Rutherford's mother wasn't at his 1914 knighthood investiture, and she hadn't travelled from Australia.
p54 Rutherford carried out research at Cavendish, not "studied" physics.
p56 Alpha rays were called non-deviable until Rutherford showed they could be in 1902.
p61 Half-life mangled in trying to make a simple analogy "The material keeps breaking down, but more and more slowly as time goes on."
p66 The nucleus is "a hundred thousand times smaller than the atom itself." About a thousandth is closer.
p79 The account of splitting the nucleus is garbled.
p79 et. al. Weight is used rather than mass, particularly so when later mentioning relativity.
p105 The Geiger counter actually uses the Rutherford-Geiger tube of 1908.
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