Unravelling the Mystery of the Atomic Nucleus A Sixty Year Journey 1896 — 1956 /

• Main Authors: Fernandez, Bernard (Author), Ripka, Georges (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Physics.; History.; Nuclear chemistry.; Nuclear physics.; Heavy ions.; Hadrons.; Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Nuclear Chemistry.; History of Science.

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...