Recherches sur une Propriété Nouvelle de la Matière; Activité Radiante Spontanée ou Radioactivité de la Matière

by Henri Becquerel

$2,500 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

First edition

FIRST EDITION of Becquerel's definitive work , containing the full account of his investigations and discovery of radioactivity. PMM 393. Dibner 163. In 1896, Bequerel's previous work was overshadowed by his discovery of the phenomenon of natural radioactivity. Following a discussion with Henri Poincaré on the radiation which had recently been discovered by Röntgen X-rays and which was accompanied by a type of phosphorescence in the

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