Unravelling the Mystery of the Atomic Nucleus A Sixty Year Journey 1896 - 1956 /

Unravelling the Mystery of the Atomic Nucleus tells the story of how, in the span of barely sixty years, we made a transition from the belief that matter was composed of indivisible atoms, to the discovery that in the heart of each atom lies a nucleus which is ten thousand times smaller than the ato...

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Published in:Springer eBooks
Main Authors: Fernandez, Bernard (Author), Ripka, Georges (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4181-6
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Table of Contents:
  • Radioactivity, the First Puzzles
  • A Nucleus at the Heart of The Atom
  • Quantum Mechanics, the Unavoidable Path
  • A Timid Infancy
  • 1930-1940 : A Dazzling Development
  • The Upheavals of the Second World War
  • The Time of Maturity
  • Where the Narrative Ends.