Nuclear Physics


The Making of the Atomic Bomb
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Nuclear Physics
Introductory Nuclear Physics
Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima
Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
Fundamentals in Nuclear Physics: From Nuclear Structure to Cosmology
Radiation: What It Is, What You Need to Know
Giant of the Atom Ernest Rutherford
The Physics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
The Shortest History of Our Universe: The Unlikely Journey from the Big Bang to Us (The Shortest History Series)
The Science Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
Abhijit Naskar
Wasting nuclear power on warheads is a barbaric use of a scientific revolution.
Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

Ernest Rutherford
It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you. [Recalling in 1936 the discovery of the nucleus in 1909, when some alpha particles were observed instead of travelling through a very thin gold foil were seen to rebound backward, as if striking something much more massive than the particles themselves. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this dis ...more
Ernest Rutherford

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