‎RUTHERFORD (E.)‎
‎Radioaktive umwandlungen -- FIRST GERMAN EDITION‎

‎Braunschweig, Vieweg, 1907, un volume in 8 relié en pleine toile beige, couverture conservée, 7pp., (1pp.), 285pp.‎

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‎---- FIRST GERMAN EDITION published in the series "Wissenschaft" N° 21 ---- This edition CONTAINS ADDITIONAL MATERIAL BY RUTHERFORD HIMSELF TO UPDATE HIS FAMOUS BOOK ---- This book contains the subject matter of eleven lectures delivered under the Silliman Foundation at Yale University, March 1905 ---- "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)**4615/M7AR‎