| Ernest
Rutherford
C L Boltz
 Heron Books 1970
ISBN None
375 pages. Hard Cover.
33 black/white photos embedded in the text.
Purchasing Details.
Out of Print
My Comments on This Book.
This book is one of a series The Great Nobel Prizes whose editor is Courtland
Canby. Due to the lack of advertising in this book it might have been the first of the
series. The concept is a good one, a series of nice, easy-to-read, compact books about the
most important Nobel prizewinners.
Boltz never met
Rutherford but knew the Cavendish Laboratory and knew and talked to George Crowe,
Rutherford's assistant, and other people who worked with Rutherford. He otherwise drew
mainly on Eve's biography plus Rutherford's published papers.
It's a good book.
Errors Noted.
None noted but I am due to read it again carefully.
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Contents
|
Editor's Foreword |
3
|
| Chapter |
|
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| 1 |
Education of a
Genius |
3
|
| 2 |
Cambridge
Initiation |
30
|
| 3 |
Cahnge of
Direction |
44
|
| 4 |
Founding his First
School |
62
|
| 5 |
Rutherford at
McGill |
74
|
| 6 |
Rutherford at
Manchester |
105
|
| 7 |
World War I |
153
|
| 8 |
Rutherford the
Great at Cambridge |
164
|
| 9 |
The Work of a
Scientist |
215
|
| 10 |
The Radio Detector
|
222
|
| 11 |
Early
Atomics |
288 |
| 12 |
Radioactivity |
240
|
| 13 |
The Nuclear Atom |
261
|
| 14 |
Nuclear Physics |
278
|
| 15 |
The Rutherford
Contribution |
291
|
|
Historical
Appendix |
309
|
|
Glossary |
357
|
|
Sources of
Illustrations |
365
|
|
Acknowledgements |
367
|
|
Index |
371
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