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Mentor and student: how Ernest Rutherford and Mark Oliphant changed nuclear physics

12 Dec 2022 Margaret Harris

Margaret Harris reviews The Basis of Everything: Rutherford, Oliphant and the Coming of the Atomic Bomb by Andrew Ramsey

Ernest Rutherford and Mark Oliphant
Linked lives Ernest Rutherford and Mark Oliphant were closer than most mentors and students, but they still make an odd pairing for a biography. (Courtesy: Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection; Australian Government, Public Domain)
Eighty-five years after his death, and more than a century after the discoveries that made him famou

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