‎RUTHERFORD (E.)‎
‎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.‎

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‎---- 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