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"RUTHERFORD, E. (ERNEST). - THE NUCLEAR ATOM - PMM 411.
Die Radioaktivität. Unter Mitwirkung des Verfassers ergänzte autorisierte deutsche Ausgabe von E. Aschkinass.
Berlin, Julius Springer, 1907. Royal8vo. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. A small nick to lower left part of frontwrapper. Stamps to titlepage. (10),597 pp., textillustrations. Internally clean. From the library of the Danish logician and philosopher Jørgen Jørgensen, with his name on top of frontwrapper.
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First German edition of this importent work which is recognized as a classic, being the first textbook on Radio-Activity. To this German edition, translated from the second English of 1905, Rutherford himself has added further descriptions of the results obtained in the years in between.Rutherford made ""Proposal of a new theory of atomic disintegration and of the nuclear nature of the atom. Rutherford discovered and named the alpha, beta, and gamma rays.""( Horblitt, ""One Hundred Books famous in Science"" No 91 (Engl. ed.).""After the discovery of thorium emanations in 1900 new concepts of atomic structure followed from the brilliant experiments of Rutherford. A new theory of atomic disintegration was proposed, then the nuclear nature of the atom..... ""(Dibner ""Heralds of Science"", No 51 (Engl. ed.).
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Die Radioaktivität. Unter Mitwirkung des Verfassers ergänzte autorisierte deutsche Ausgabe von Professor Dr. E. Aschkinass -- FIRST GERMAN EDITION ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE --
Berlin, Springer, 1907, un volume in 8 relié en demi-chagrin marron à coins, dos orné de fers dorés (reliure de l'époque), 8pp., (1), 597pp.
---- PREMIERE EDITION ALLEMANDE ---- FIRST GERMAN EDITION ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- "The first textbook on the subject and recognized as a classic at its publication in 1904. So fast did the science progress, however that Rutherford prepared a second edition the following year that was 50 percent larger... (Though only a year has passed since the book first made its appearance, the researches that have been carried out in that time have been too numerous and of too important a character to permit the publishing of a mere reprint... The new chapters which have been added possibly constitute the most important change in the work ; these chapters include a detailed account of the theory of successive changes and its application to the analysis of the series of transformations which occur in radium, thorium and actinium..." (Préface to the second ed. by Rutherford) ---- "The book includes a discussion of Rutherford's revolutionary transformation theory, developed during the period 1902/1903, which states that radioactivity is a by-product of the transmutation of one element into another... In work that may be characterized as radioactivity at McGill, atomicphysics at Manchester and nuclear physics at Cambridge, Rutherford more than any other formed the views now held concerning the nature of matter. It is to be expected that numerous honors would come to such a man, called the greatest experimental physicist of his day and often compared with Faraday. In 1922, he received the Copley Medal, the highest award given by the Royal Society...". (DSB XII p. 34) ---- "Rutherford found that the rays emitted by uranium were of two kinds, one stopped by thin sheets of aluminium, which he called x-rays, and the other requiring much thicker sheets of aluminium, which he called Betta rays". (Partington IV p. 939) ---- Horblit N° 100 & Dibner N° 51 (1st english ed. 1904)**4614/M7AR
