Great Scientific Experiments: Twenty Experiments That Changed Our View of the World by Rom Harré

Author:Rom Harré [Harré, Rom]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science, History
ISBN: 9780486422633
Goodreads: 3194988
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 1981-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

Fig. 60: Ernest Rutherford.

During the First World War Rutherford worked on problems of submarine detection, but at the same time managed to continue his major researches. The discovery of the artificial disintegration of elements and their forced transmutation came in 1919, the experiment to be described in this section. In 1919 Rutherford finally returned to Cambridge, succeeding J. J. Thomson as Director of the Cavendish Laboratory. Here he worked with Chadwick on systematic studies of the artificial disintegration of the elements, and it was here that with Oliphant and Hunter he produced the first nuclear fusion, the creation of atoms of a heavier element by fusing the atoms of a lighter one.

He was awarded the Order of Merit in 1925 and elevated to the Peerage in 1931. He died in Cambridge in 1937.

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