Piers Bizony

Atom

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No one ever expected the atom to be as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as it turned out to be. Its tale is one riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius.Piers Bizony tells the story of the young misfit New Zealander, Ernest Rutherford, who showed that the atom consisted mainly of empty space, a discovery that turned 200 years of classical physics on its head, and the brilliant Dane, Niels Bohr, who made the next great leap into the incredible world of quantum theory.Yet he and a handful of other Young Turks in this revolutionary new science weren't prepared for the shocks that Nature had up her sleeve. At… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-84046-873-1
EAN: 9781840468731
Produktnummer: 3504517
Verlag: Icon Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Seitenangabe: 206 S.
Masse: H19.6 cm x B12.7 cm x D2.0 cm 249 g
Gewicht: 249

Über den Autor

Piers Bizony is a science journalist and space historian who writes for magazines such as Focus and Wired as well as the BBC's Sky at Night magazine. His last book, The Man Who Ran the Moon, was described as a 'firebrand of a book' by Publisher's Weekly.