Radioactive Transformations (Silliman Memorial Lectures) (The Silliman Memorial Lectures Series)

by ErnestRutherford (Author), Frank Wilczek (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2012

  $41.07

  Describes Ernest Rutherford's Nobel Prize-winning research on radioactive matter. This edition features an introduction that provides historical context and also explains how Rutherford's early research led to a better understanding of topics as diverse as the age of our planet, the workings of the atom's nucleus, and the fusion in stars.