Sir Issac Newton. Book

It's my custom to bring a book along to read on plane trips and present to hosts upon arriving at my destination. I chose this because it was short enough to finish en route to San Francisco and because Tom, the host, has an abiding interest in physics.

While including the author's involvement in replicating one of Rutherford's seminal experiments, this is basically a brief, sympathetic-if-not-laudatory biography of the scientist detailing his major discoveries, his laboratory technique and the eccentricities of his behavior.