Radio-Activity. WITH: Radiations from Radioactive Substances

by Ernest Rutherford, John Cockcroft

$4,900 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

“I remember going to see Rutherford in the old Maxwell Wing of the laboratory and finding him sitting, as he so often did, on a stool. He received me very kindly, and gave me authority to devote such time as I could spare from mathematics to work in the advanced practical physics class… looking at me with those penetrating eyes, he promised to take me into the Cavendish if I got a ‘first’.”– John Cockcroft, in Rutherford: By Those Who

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