Autograph letter signed ‘E Rutherford’ to Charles Herman Viol, 8 January 1921. Three pages on two sheets

by Ernest Rutherford

$3,800 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

Important letter from Rutherford to Charles Herman Viol requesting information about the production of radium, in preparation for a series of lectures he was to deliver at The Royal Institution. “From 1921, when he succeeded J. J. Thomson, until his death, Rutherford was professor of natural philosophy at the Royal Institution in London, a post that entailed several lectures each year” DSB . Rutherford 1871-1937 had moved in 1919 from Manchester

• Binding: Hardcover

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