
audiobook
The chemical nature of the alpha particles from radioactive substances
Nobel lecture, December 11, 1908.
Language
en
Duration
~32 minutes (30K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
Sweden: Nobel Foundation, 1908.
Credits
Laura Natal Rodrigues (Images generously made available by the Nobel Foundation.)
Release date
Jul 2, 2023
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

1871–1937
A farm boy from New Zealand who helped reveal the hidden structure of the atom, he became one of the key founders of nuclear physics. His experiments changed how scientists understood matter and earned him the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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