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Title:
Atomic Pioneers Book 2 From the Mid-19th to the Early 20th Century
Author(s):
Hiebert, Ray [University of Maryland]; Hiebert, Roselyn
Subject Terms:
The World of the Atom Series
Document Type:
BOOK
Publication Date:
1971 Jan 01
Declassification Status:
Never classified
Document Pages:
100 pg
Accession Number:
Atom08
Originating Research Org.:
US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
OpenNet Entry Date:
2014 Jun 26
OpenNet Modified Date:
2014 Jun 25
Description/Abstract:
This book gives a brief account of the lives and work of 26 men and women who contributed to the great surge of knowledge vital to atomic science from the 1800s to the mid-1900s. The 26 are: William Prout, Michael Faraday, Eilhardt Mitscherlich, Joseph Henry, Thomas Graham, Stanislao Cannizzaro, James Clerk Maxwell, Dmitri I. Mendeleev, Joseph Norman Lockyer, John William Strutt, Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen, Antione Henri Becquerel, Hendrik A. Lorentz, J.J. Thomson, Max Planck, Svante A. Arrhenius, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie, Pieter Zeeman, Theodore W. Richards, C.T.R. Wilson, Ernest Rutherford, Francis W. Aston, Frederick Soddy, Lise Meitner, and Otto Hahn.