The Strange World Inside the Atom, Pt. 1
Highlights and Show Notes
The new Equinox YouTube channel
Ben Franklin got the charge of the electron wrong!
The ‘ground’ symbol in electronics
Dmitri Mendeleev and the periodic table
Radioactive toothpaste Yes, there really was such a thing! In fact, they were still making it throughout [WWII] (https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/thorium-toothpaste-alsos-world-war-wwii-manhattan-project)
Ernest Rutherford discovered the half-life, radon, alpha (He, 2 p and 2 n) and beta radiation (e-), first controlled splitting of an atom nucleus, and the proton (H)
alpha particle scattering by gold foil experiment by Geiger and Marsden(1911)
Chadwick discovers the neutron in 1932 Right-hand rule
Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex