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
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Physics.; Science > History.; Nuclear chemistry.; Nuclear physics.; Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Nuclear Chemistry.; History of Science.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4181-6

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...

Table of Contents:

• Radioactivity, the First Puzzles
• A Nucleus at the Heart of The Atom
• Quantum Mechanics, the Unavoidable Path
• A Timid Infancy
• 1930-1940 : A Dazzling Development
• The Upheavals of the Second World War
• The Time of Maturity
• Where the Narrative Ends.