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The Infancy of Atomic Physics: Hercules in His Cradle by Alex Keller ISBN: 0486450368 Dover Publications Price: $14.95 click here to see this book This compelling history portrays the faces and lives behind the beginnings of atomic science, from experiments in the 1880s to the era just after the First World War. It describes the dramatic discoveries as they were made, and it shows how they were interpreted in the scientific language of the time. Table of Contents for The Infancy of Atomic Physics: Hercules in His Cradle Introduction 1. Mysterious atom in mysterious ether 2. Why at that time? Why in those places? 3. Controversy over the cathode 4. Light invisible 5. Light everlasting 6. "These are the days of rays" 7. Energy fragmented, matter dissolved 8. Into the core of things 9. Niels Bohr 10. Atom and radiation reconciled, in discontinuity 11. Very pretty--but will it work? 12. How many electrons? 13. Equal numbers--but unequal weights? 14. War and disintegration Bibliography Index

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