Comments on: Books http://marymulvihill.net Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:21:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Stephanie Dagg http://marymulvihill.net/mulvihill-books/#comment-117 Stephanie Dagg Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:38:57 +0000 http://marymulvihill.net/?page_id=135#comment-117 Dear Ms Mulvihill, I am a freelance editor for Edco in Dublin, working on a TY history book. My managing editor there is Suzanna Henry (shenry@edco.ie). We would like to reproduce an extract of 136 words from pages 436-7 of Ingenious Ireland. I attach the passage below. The book will be approx 100 pp long, print run 3000, distribution in the Republic of Ireland only and selling price of around 12 euro. Publication date is early September 2009. We hope you will allow us to use this passage. Please advise us of your terms. Thank you. Stephanie J Dagg April 14th, 1932. A young Irish scientist was working in a Cambridge laboratory when he saw ‘a wonderful sight, lots of scintillations, looking just like stars’. Ernest Walton (1903–95) had just split an atom and what he saw was the energy released as the atom broke apart. The brilliant experiment had transformed lithium into helium, a modern act of alchemy. It was a collaboration with John Cockcroft and it introduced the era of nuclear power. In 1951, the two men shared a Nobel Prize for their ingenious work. Ernest Walton, son of a Methodist minister, was born in Dungarvan and schooled at Methody College in Belfast … After graduating from T.C.D., Walton went to work at Cambridge University under Ernest Rutherford, who had already discovered much about radioactivity and the structure of the atom … Dear Ms Mulvihill,
I am a freelance editor for Edco in Dublin, working on a TY history book. My managing editor there is Suzanna Henry (shenry@edco.ie). We would like to reproduce an extract of 136 words from pages 436-7 of Ingenious Ireland. I attach the passage below.
The book will be approx 100 pp long, print run 3000, distribution in the Republic of Ireland only and selling price of around 12 euro. Publication date is early September 2009.
We hope you will allow us to use this passage. Please advise us of your terms.
Thank you.
Stephanie J Dagg

April 14th, 1932. A young Irish scientist was working in a Cambridge laboratory when he saw ‘a wonderful sight, lots of scintillations, looking just like stars’. Ernest Walton (1903–95) had just split an atom and what he saw was the energy released as the atom broke apart. The brilliant experiment had transformed lithium into helium, a modern act of alchemy. It was a collaboration with John Cockcroft and it introduced the era of nuclear power. In 1951, the two men shared a Nobel Prize for their ingenious work.

Ernest Walton, son of a Methodist minister, was born in Dungarvan and schooled at Methody College in Belfast … After graduating from T.C.D., Walton went to work at Cambridge University under Ernest Rutherford, who had already discovered much about radioactivity and the structure of the atom …

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