Transmutation: The Inside Story

by Robin Marshall

This is a true story. It is a story of Manchester, discovery and physics, and very little comes truer than that. When the year has a ‘19 in it, you can be sure that Manchester will be at the fore. 1819 was the pinnacle of the ‘19s - Peterloo, when Manchester made sacrifices for the Nation. In 1919, Ernest Rutherford, later Sir, even later Lord, became the planet’s first alchemist. All will agree it was not on the scale of Peterloo, but it will do for Manchester. In 2019, this book becomes written, and it contains among its many facts and exciting discoveries, a tribute to those Mancunians, who made a sacrifice equal to the Peterloo heroes who gave their lives for Manchester and the freedom of man, but who gave their lives, as unexpectedly as those a Century before them, in the interest of radium radiology, so that others might live longer. You do not need to know a scrap of physics to read and understand this book, written about Manchester physics by an adopted Manchester physicist. Yet if you finish it, I can promise, you will know something. This Kindle edition is designed for colour tablets and most of the 75 images and photographs are in full colour, some having never appeared in public before.

137 pages, Paperback

Published September 12, 2019