Radioactive Transformations

by Ernest Rutherford

Book Overview

Radioactive Transformations describes Ernest Rutherford's Nobel Prize-winning investigations into the mysteries of radioactive matter. In this historic work, Rutherford outlines the scientific investigations that led to and coincided with his own research--including the work of Wilhelm Rӧntgen, J. J. Thomson, and Marie Curie--and explains in detail the experiments that provided a glimpse at special relativity, quantum mechanics, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300181302
• ISBN13: 9780300181302
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"