A Photographic Investigation Of The Transmutation Of Lithium And Boron By Protons And Of Lithium

by Ernest T Walton Philip I Dee

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First edition · Signed

London: Harrison & Sons, Ltd., 1933. First Edition. Offprint, 8vo 251 x 176mm , pp. 10, plus 2 inserted plates. Original green printed wrappers, thread-bound, so light creasing, near fine. Signed by Walton on the front wrapper. Walton shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 with John Douglas Cockcroft for the first experimental splitting of an atomic nucleus by artificially accelerated particles; the moment at which

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