Hydrogen: The Essential Element
by John S. Rigden /
2002 / English / PDF
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In this biography of hydrogen, the author shows how this singular atom, the most abundant in the universe, has helped unify our understanding of the material world from the smallest scale, the elementary particles, to the largest, the universe itself. It is a tale of startling discoveries and dazzling practical benefits spanning more than one hundred years form the first attempt to identify the basic building blocks of atoms in the mid-nineteenth century to the discovery of the Bose-Einstein condensate only a few years ago. (Midwest).
