This final novel, remarkable as an early treatment of the impact of radiation on human life and of the rise of Nazism
in Germany, differs from MC
's earlier ones in being pessimistic about...
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Amabel Williams-Ellis
One of her Spectator projects was an unsuccessful attempt to increase its coverage of developing scientific issues, such as the work of Einstein
, Ernest Rutherford
, and Niels Bohr
.
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983.
69-70
Despite this failure...
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10 December 1908: Lord Ernest Rutherford's work on radioactive...
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10 December 1908
Lord Ernest Rutherford
's work on radioactive substances earned him the Nobel
Prize in Chemistry.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
Nobel Prize in Literature. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/.
1928: The Geiger or Geiger-Müller counter, a device...
Building item
1928
The Geiger or Geiger-Müller counter, a device which detects and measures radioactivity, was produced in a form close to that still in use by Hans Geiger
and Walther Müller
at the University of Kiel
in...
1933: In London, politician William Beveridge and...
