Radiations from Radioactive Substances.
by RUTHERFORD, Ernest; James Chadwick; Charles Drummond Ellis
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About This Item
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,, 1930. An overview of the field from one of its leading laboratories First edition, first impression. This book updates Rutherford's earlier work, Radioactive Substances and their Radiations, and includes an account of the "very rapid growth of our knowledge of the transformations of radioactive substances" since the former book was published in 1913 (Preface). A pioneer of nuclear physics, Rutherford (1871-1937) is best known for identifying the structure of the atom. This work builds on his research while Director of the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, the foremost physics laboratory in the world at the time. Chadwick (1891-1974), his former student, co-directed the laboratory, and Ellis (1895-1980) was employed there as a researcher. Provenance: with the ownership inscription "R. Cockburn, August 1946, AERE" on the front free endpaper. A physicist, Robert Cockburn (1909-1994) joined the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell in 1945 after working on radio countermeasures during the Second World War. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. With 12 plates and numerous diagrams in the text. Extremities bumped, toning to same, spine a little faded, light foxing to cloth, a handful of neat pencil annotations demonstrating close reading of the text, evidence of staple sometime removed from pp. 193-4; nicks, chips, and short closed tears to jacket extremities resulting in loss, particularly at spine ends, not affecting lettering, spine browned, price-clipped: a very good copy in very good jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 168840
- Title
- Radiations from Radioactive Substances.
- Author
- RUTHERFORD, Ernest; James Chadwick; Charles Drummond Ellis
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
- Date Published
- 1930
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