John Dalton and the Development of Atomic Theory
Author: Roberta Baxter
Publisher: Morgan Reynolds Publishing
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781599351223
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A young adult biography of chemist and physicist John Dalton
Author: Roberta Baxter
Publisher: Morgan Reynolds Publishing
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781599351223
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A young adult biography of chemist and physicist John Dalton
Author: Frank Greenaway
Publisher: London : Heinemann
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 266
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jack Challoner
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2018-12-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 026203736X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An accessible and engaging guide to the atom, the smallest, most fundamental constituent of matter. Until now, popular science has relegated the atom to a supporting role in defining the different chemical elements of the periodic table. In this book, Jack Challoner places the atom at center stage. The Atom investigates the quest to identify the smallest, most fundamental constituents of matter—and how that quest helps us to understand what everything is made of and how it all works. Challoner covers a wide range of topics—including the development of scientific thinking about atoms and the basic structure of atoms; how atomic interactions account for the familiar properties of everyday materials; the power of the atomic nucleus; and what the mysterious quantum realm of subatomic particles can tell us about the very nature of reality. Illustrated in color throughout, The Atom offers clear answers to questions we have all pondered, as well as some we have never even dreamed of. It describes the amazing discoveries scientists have made about the fundamental building blocks of matter—from quarks to nuclear fission to the “God particle”—and explains them accessibly and concisely. The Atom is the engaging and straightforward introduction to the topic that we didn't get in school.
Author: William Charles Henry
Publisher: London : Printed for the Cavendish Society
Published: 1854
Total Pages: 346
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David M. Knight
Publisher:
Published: 2018-12-11
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781138393783
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1967. The impression is sometimes given that the Atomic Theory was revived in the early years of the nineteenth century by John Dalton, and that continuously from then on it has played a vital role in chemistry. The aim of this study is to revise this over-simplified picture. Atomic explanations seemed to chemists to go beyond the facts, to fail to lend themselves to mathematical expression, and to deny the ultimate simplicity and unity of all matter. Most, therefore, rejected them. Meanwhile, physicists were developing a whole range of atomic theories to explain the physical properties of bodies in terms of very simple atoms or particles. During the last thirty years of the century the position changed, as physicists and chemists came to agree on a common atomic theory. But the last prominent opponents of atomism were not converted until the early years of the twentieth century, by which time studies of radioactivity had made it clear that the billiard-ball Daltonian atom must, in any case, be abandoned.