Unravelling the mystery of the atomic nucleus [electronic resource] : a sixty year journey 1896-1956 / Bernard Fernandez ; English version by Georges Ripka.
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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| Other title: | Atome au noyau. English. |
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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.