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Piers Bizony, Jim Al-Khalili

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24 May 2017

Mathematics & Sciences; Popular science; Atomic & molecular physics

Series: Icon Science

How 200 years of classical physics was turned on its head.

Riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius, the history of the atom's discovery is as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as the atom itself.

John Dalton gave us the first picture of the atom in the early 1800s. Almost 100 years later the young misfit New Zealander, Ernest Rutherford, showed the atom consisted mostly of space, and in doing so overturned centuries of classical science. It was a brilliant Dane, Neils Bohr, who made the next great leap - into the incredible world of quantum theory. Yet he and a handful of other revolutionary young scientists weren't prepared for the shocks Nature had up her sleeve.

This 'insightful, compelling' book (New Scientist) reveals the mind-bending discoveries that were destined to upset everything we thought we knew about reality and unleash a dangerous new force upon the world. Even today, as we peer deeper and deeper into the atom, it throws back as many questions at us as answers.

AUTHOR: Piers Bizony is a science journalist and space historian who writes for magazines such as Focus and Wired, as well as the Independent. His award-winning book on Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey was described as 'full of sparkling enthusiasm' by the New Scientist and 'excellent, in every way worthy of Kubrick's original precision-crafted vision' by the Evening Standard. His many works include The Man Who Ran the Moon (Icon, 2006).

By: Piers Bizony
Foreword by: Jim Al-Khalili
Imprint: Icon Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: illustrated edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 234g
ISBN: 9781785782053
ISBN 10: 1785782053
Series: Icon Science
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 24 May 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product

Piers Bizony is a science journalist and space historian who writes for magazines such as Focus and Wired, as well as the Independent. His award-winning book on Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey was described as 'full of sparkling enthusiasm' by the New Scientist and 'excellent, in every way worthy of Kubrick's original precision-crafted vision' by the Evening Standard. His many works include The Man Who Ran the Moon (Icon, 2006).

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Atom

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Piers Bizony, Jim Al-Khalili

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