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Atom (Icon Science) [EPUB ebook]

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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 gr...

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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 Kubri...

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 224 ● ISBN 9781785782169 ● Dimensione 1.6 MB ● Casa editrice Icon Books ● Città London ● Paese GB ● Pubblicato 2017 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 5456909 ● Protezione dalla copia DRM sociale

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