Production of Helium

by Radium by Bertram Borden Boltwood, Ernest Rutherford

$1,250 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

London: Taylor & Francis, 1911. First English-language printing, in the rare separately-issued offprint, of the experiment that put a number on transmutation itself the complete paper had appeared in German in the Vienna Academy’s Sitzungsberichte the previous March . Working in Rutherford’s Manchester laboratory with radium lent by the Vienna Academy of Sciences, Boltwood and Rutherford measured, to

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