Milestones in Modern Science: Splitting the Atom

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The journey into the centre of the atom was a long one, and the successful splitting of the atom by a team of scientists in the 1930s was the result of years of trial, error and sheer luck by many of history's greatest scientific minds. Splitting the Atom investigates the theories and practical developments that eld to the turning-point in nuclear science - the realisation that splitting the nucleus of an atom created energy that could be harnessed, for good and for ill. It explains that structure of the atom, the developments that led to the discovery of fission and all the wrong turns along the way, right through to the dropping of the first nuclear bomb in 1945.