Books
Bortz, Fred. Meltdown! The Nuclear Disaster in Japan and Our Energy Future. Minneapolis, MN: Twenty-First Century Books, 2012.
Bortz, Fred. The Periodic Table of Elements and Dmitry Mendeleyev. New York: Rosen, 2014.
Bortz, Fred. Physics: Decade by Decade. Twentieth-Century Science. New York: Facts On File, 2007.
Challoner, Jack. The Elements: The New Guide to the Building Blocks of Our Universe. London: Carlton Books, 2012.
Green, Dan, and Simon Basher. Extreme Physics. New York: Kingfisher, 2013.
Hagler, Gina. Discovering Quantum Mechanics. New York: Rosen, 2015.
Hollar, Sherman. Electronics. New York: Britannica Educational Services, 2012.
Indovina, Shaina Carmel. Women in Physics. Broomall, PA: Mason Crest, 2014.
Marsico, Katie. Key Discoveries in Physical Science. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 2015.
Morgan, Sally. From Greek Atoms to Quarks: Discovering Atoms. New York: Heinemann Publishing, 2008.
Websites
American Institute of Physics Center for the History of Physics
www.aip.org/history-programs/physics-history
This site includes several valuable online exhibits from the history of physics, including The Discovery of the Electron and Rutherford’s Nuclear World.
The Nobel Foundation Prizes for Physics
www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics
Read about past Nobel Prize winners, including J. J. Thomson, Ernest Rutherford, Louis de Broglie, Albert Einstein, George Paget Thomson, Richard Feynman, Enric Fermi, and others. Each entry includes quick biographical facts and brief summaries of their award-winning contributions to physics.
The Science Museum (U.K.)
www.sciencemuseum.org.uk
This site includes the online exhibit Atomic Firsts, which tells the story of J. J. Thomson, Ernest Rutherford, and Thomson’s son George Paget Thomson, who also won the Nobel Prize for his experiment that proved the existence of de Broglie’s predicted electron waves.
Museums and Institutes
American Institute of Physics
Center for the History of Physics
One Physics Ellipse
College Park, MD 20740
(301) 209-3165
www.aip.org/history-programs/physics-history
The Center for History of Physics houses a research library, a photo archive, and has created numerous online resources in all areas of physics, including Rutherford’s Nuclear World.
American Nuclear Society
555 North Kensington Avenue
La Grange Park, IL 60526
(800) 323-3044
www.ans.org
The American Nuclear Society is a not-for-profit, international, scientific and educational organization. It serves the nuclear community by promoting public awareness and understanding of the application of nuclear science and technology.
Ernest Rutherford Collection
Room 111 Ernest Rutherford Physics Building
McGill University
3600 rue University
Montréal, QC H3A 2T8
Canada
(514) 398-6490
www.mcgill.ca/historicalcollections/departmental/ernest-rutherford
The Rutherford Museum contains the apparatus used by Nobel Prize winner Ernest Rutherford when he was professor of experimental physics at McGill from 1898 to 1907. The collection includes letters, documents, memorabilia, photographs of Rutherford and his colleagues, and other materials relating to Rutherford’s work, including the desk he used in his home.
Lederman Science Education Center
Fermilab MS 777
Box 500
Batavia, IL 60510
(630) 840-8258
ed.fnal.gov/lsc/lscvideo/index.shtml
This museum is an outstanding place to discover the science and history of subatomic particles. It is located at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) outside of Chicago.
Ontario Science Centre
770 Don Mills Road
Toronto, ON M3C 1T3
Canada
(416) 696-1000
www.ontariosciencecentre.ca
The Ontario Science Centre is Canada’s leading science and technology museum. Its programs and exhibits aim to inspire a lifelong journey of curiosity, discovery, and action to create a better future for the planet.