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Fly in the Cathedral: How a Small Group of Cambridge Scientists Won the Race to Split the Atom
Fly in the Cathedral How a Small Group of Cambridge Scientists Won the Race to Split the Atom
Author: Brian Cathcart
The splitting of the atom, performed in a shabby Cambridge lab in April 1932, was a triumph of ingenuity over adversity. John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, under the stern gaze of the brilliantly eccentric Lord Rutherford, cobbled together handmade or recycled components - while American rivals had state-of-the-art equipment - to make one of the ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780140279061
ISBN-10: 0140279067
Publication Date: 2/24/2005
Pages: 320
Edition: First Penguin Editio
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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Book Type: Paperback
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