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A FORCE OF NATURE: The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford

RICHARD REEVES

A century ago, Ernest Rutherford was one of England's most famous scientists. In 1908, he received the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his investigations of radioactivity. He went on to publish even greater discoveries on the existence of the atomic nucleus and the nature of the atom, including his work with James Chadwick on the discovery of the neutron in 1932. (Rutherford himself had ...

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