Piers Bizony: Atom (Icon Science) [2017] paperback ZNATU 'A soaring account of the

'A soaring account of the months that transformed a messy feudal squabble into Magna Carta

His book is an assured gallop across the terrain of contemporary history in this fateful year

as well as on the nature of heroism

This is the handbook to the greatest power in the Universe

and the daily challenges that accompany it

Piers Bizony: Atom (Icon Science) [2017] paperback ZNATU 'A soaring account of theRiddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius, the history of the atom's discovery is as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as the atom itself. John Dalton gave us the first picture of the atom in the early 1800s. Almost 100 years later the young misfit New Zealander, Ernest Rutherford, showed the atom consisted mostly of space, and in doing so overturned centuries of classical science. It was a brilliant Dane, Neils