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Genre/Form: | Biographies Biography History Juvenile works Children's nonfiction Juvenile literature Biography Juvenile literature |
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Named Person: | Ernest Rutherford; Ernest Rutherford; Ernest Rutherford |
Material Type: | Biography, Juvenile audience, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Naomi E Pasachoff |
ISBN: | 0766024415 9780766024410 |
OCLC Number: | 55616813 |
Description: | 128 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | A scholarship he almost did not win -- Loss and luck -- Research and romance -- From radio to radioactivity -- The mysteries of radioactivity -- Founding nuclear physics -- Scientific statesman. |
Series Title: | Great minds of science. |
Responsibility: | Naomi Pasachoff. |
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Abstract:
Examines the life and work of this groundbreaking scientist, best known for establishing the nuclear model of the atom in 1911, and the first person to break up the nucleus of an atom, and is thus recognized as the father of nuclear science.
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