Atom (Icon Science)
By Piers Bizony and Jim Al-Khalili
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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.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A very readable historical popular science account with anecdotes from physicists and physics from around the time of the Curies onwards to quarks, Fred Hoyle and multiple realities. Not bad, but disappointingly, one find no attempt to delve into equations and deeper mathematical insight. In the end of the book biologist Peter Medawar is quoted from "The limites of science" where he claims many questions are just not scientific such as "how did everything begin?" and "what is the point of life?" Is this really so? I am not so sure.