A Force of Nature by Richard Reeves

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/237340 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Force of Nature Author: Richard Reeves Narrator: Alex Hyde-White Format: mp3 Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins Release date: 06-28-22 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 4 ratings Genres: History Publisher's Summary: Ernest Rutherford, who grew up in colonial New Zealand and came to Cambridge on a scholarship, made numerous revolutionary discoveries, among them the orbital structure of the atom and the concept of the “half-life” of radioactive materials, which led to a massive re-evaluation of the age of the Earth―previously judged just 100 million years old. Above all, perhaps, Rutherford and the young men working under him were the first to split the atom, unlocking tremendous forces―forces, as Rutherford himself predicted, that would bring us the atomic bomb.