Planetary Atom, The: A Fictional Account Of George Adolphus Schott The Forgotten Physicist - Softcover

Connerade, Jean-patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1800610149 ISBN 13: 9781800610149

Publisher: WSPC (EUROPE), 2021

Synopsis

Foreword by Roald Hoffmann, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry This largely imaginary biography recreates the life and times of George Adolphus Schott, a contemporary of Rutherford and Bohr, who criticized the Planetary Atom which was proposed to account for celebrated observations by Rutherford. Schott proved the Planetary Atom to be incompatible with fundamental properties of physics. Unfortunately, his work was cast aside because of Bohr's success in accounting for the structure of the atom. Later, it was found that Schott had, in fact, predicted important effects. Nonetheless, his contribution was forgotten and his discovery of Synchrotron Radiation was attributed to another. In The Planetary Atom, Schott's interactions with eminent scientists of the time are reconstructed. The novel rehabilitates an unjustly forgotten British researcher and restores him to his rightful place as one of the great scientists of his time.

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About the Author

<p><strong>Jean-Patrick Connerade</strong> is currently Emeritus Professor of Physics and Distinguished Research Fellow at Imperial College London, President of the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Honorary President of EuroScience, Honorary Professor of Physics at the East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai, and Permanent Guest Scientist at the Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a former editor of the <em>Journal of Physics B</em> (UK), author of the book <em>Highly Excited Atoms</em> published by the Cambridge University Press (translated and published in Chinese by the Chinese Academy of Sciences), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Fellow of the Institute of Physics.</p> <p>As an author, Jean-Patrick goes by the pen name <strong>Chaunes</strong>. <strong>Chaunes</strong> is a Poet, author and playwright in French. He has won several prizes for his poetry including the Grand Prize for Poetry (Victor Hugo Prize) of the Society of French Poets; the José-Maria de Heredia Prize of the Académie Française; the Paul Verlaine Prize of the Maison de Poésie; the World Prize of Humanism; the Gotseva Misla Prize of Literature and many more. He is an Honorary Member of the Société des Poètes Français, Member of the Société des Gens de Lettres, and a Member of the Académie des Sciences, des Inscriptions et des Belles Lettres.</p>

Edition details

• Publisher: WSPC (EUROPE)
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1800610149
• ISBN 13: 9781800610149
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 246