When in 1900 Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy, working at McGill University in Montreal, figured that thorium was spontaneously turning into argon by radioactive decay, Soddy exclaimed ‘This is ...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Among other false and misleading claims in President Donald Trump’s inaugural address, his declaration that Americans “split the atom” prompted vexed social media posts by ...
The self-splitting atom : the history of the Rutherford-Soddy collaboration / [by] Thaddeus J. Trenn
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Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England to New Zealand before he was born. They ran a successful farm near Nelson, where Ernest was born. One of 12 children, he liked the hard work and open ...
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