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020			_a9781526618955
082			_a530.0724 _bSHE
100			_aSheehy, Suzie
245			_aMatter of everything : twelve experiments that changed our world
260			_bBloomsbury, _c2022 _aLondon :
300			_a313 p. ; _c23 cm
365			_b699.00 _cINR _d01
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThe Matter of Everything, accelerator physicist Suzie Sheehy introduces us to the people who, through a combination of genius, persistence and luck, staged the ground-breaking experiments of the twentieth century that changed the course of history. From the serendipitous discovery of X-rays in a German laboratory, to the scientists trying to prove Einstein wrong (and inadvertently proving him right), to the race to split open the atom, Sheehy shows how our most brilliant, practical physicists have shaped innumerable aspects of how we live today. Radio, TV, the chips in our smartphones, MRI scanners, radar equipment and microwaves, to name a few: these were all made possible by their determination to understand, and control, the microscopic.
650			_aCase studies
650			_a20th century
650			_aHistory
650			_aExperiments
650			_aPhysics
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