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Ernest Rutherford

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~2h 24min
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English
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Biography
Nuclear Physics
Physicists
Juvenile
Published 2003 Oxford University Press, USA 3 views
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9780198028789
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J. L. Heilbron

American historian of science best known for his work in the history of physics and the history of astronomy.

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A little more than a century before Ernest Rutherford's birth on August 30, 1871, Captain James Cook, the great explorer and geographer, made the first extensive survey of the coasts of New Zealand...

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A biography of the scientist considered to be the father of nuclear physics for his development of the nuclear theory of the atom in 1911 and discovery of alpha and beta rays and protons.

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