The World Made New: Frederick Soddy, Science, Politics and the Environment.

Chemistry and Industry | August 4, 1997| | Copyright

Frederick Soddy was a key figure in the development of nuclear physics, with his discovery of isotopes and of the displacement law of radioactive change. Central to Linda Metricks' important but frustrating book is the hypothesis that Frederick Soddy has not been accorded the historical respect he deserves. Certainly, the author suggests Soddy himself thought so, and perhaps compared his own with Ernest Rutherford's fame, but one might think that with a Nobel prize for chemistry (1921, proposed by Rutherford and seconded by J J Thomson, no less), an Oxford professorship and ...

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