Index

Page numbers in boldface are illustrations. Entries in boldface are glossary terms.

alchemy, 8–9

alpha particle, 21–24, 27, 29–30, 32, 34–35, 40–41, 42

alpha ray, 21

Aristotle, 6–7, 7

atom, 4–10, 11, 12–13, 15, 15, 17, 18–29, 24, 29, 37–38, 39, 40–41, 49

and alchemy, 8

atomic symbols, 11

forming compounds, 9

gas, 32

helium, 21

hydrogen, 5, 10, 13, 19

nuclear model of, 23

of combining elements, 14

oxygen, 5, 10, 13

planetary model, 25

plum pudding, 21

transmutation of, 28

with radioactive beams, 21

atomic mass, 15, 24, 27–29, 32, 43

atomic number, 23–24, 27–28, 32, 37, 43, 46

atomic weight, 9–10, 14–15, 16, 17, 24

beta particle, 28, 28, 30, 32

beta ray, 21, 30, 33

cathode ray, 18–19

color, 40

Dalton, John, 4–6, 9–10, 11

Einstein, Albert, 34–36, 35–36, 48 See also theory of relativity

electromagnetism, 37–38

electron, 5, 15, 18–21, 19, 23–26, 29–30, 32–34, 33, 36–42, 36, 39

Fermi, Enrico, 30, 31, 43, 49

Fukushima, 50–52, 51

gamma ray, 21, 27–28, 30, 33, 41, 43

Gay-Lussac, Louis, 12–13, 13, 16

Geiger, Hans, 20, 21–22

greenhouse gas, 52

Hahn, Otto, 43, 44, 45–46

Hertz, Heinrich, 22

Hertzian wave, 22

Joliot-Curie, Irene, 33, 46

law of whole-number volumes, 13

Marsden, Ernest, 20, 22

Meitner, Lise, 43, 44, 45–46

Mendeleyev, Dmitri Ivanovich, 10, 14–16, 14, 17, 37 See also periodic table of the elements

molecule, 5, 7, 10, 12–13

neutron, 4–5, 15, 24, 26, 30, 32, 33, 34, 37, 40–43, 46, 47, 48–49, 52

nucleus, 20, 23–27, 24, 26, 28, 29–30, 29, 32, 34–35, 37, 40–43, 42, 46, 47, 49

periodic table of the elements, 14, 15–16, 15, 17

See also Mendeleyev, Dmitri Ivanovich

photon, 37, 40

pi meson, 40, 42, 43

Plato, 6

proton, 5, 15, 23–24, 24, 26, 26, 29–30, 32–34, 33–34, 37, 40–43, 42, 46

quantum mechanics, 34, 37–38, 39, 43

radioactivity, 21, 27, 40–41, 43, 50–51, 51

Rutherford, Daniel, 16

Rutherford, Ernest, 20, 21–23, 24, 25–30, 26, 29, 32, 33, 34, 38, 41

scattering, 21–23, 25, 34

Socrates, 6

Soddy, Frederick, 21, 27–28, 29

spectrum, 36, 38

theory of relativity, 34, 35

Thomson, J. J., 18–22, 19, 29

transmutation, 27–28

valence, 14–15, 15, 17, 20