
This is the first full-length biography of Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), the mostimportant experimental physicist of his time, and probably the most ingenious since Faraday. It wasRutherford who discovered the atomic nucleus and who first "split" an atom.Based in large part...


This is the first full-length biography of Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), the most important experimental physicist of his time, and probably the most ingenious since Faraday. It was Rutherford who discovered the atomic nucleus and who first "split" an atom.Based in large part...