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RUTHERFORD, Ernest (1871-1937). Radioactive substances and their radiations. Cambridge: University Press, 1913.
8o (215 x 140 mm). 2 half-tone plates. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered spine (slight wear to extremities). Provenance: William Henry Bragg (1862-1942), physicist and co-winner (with his son, William Lawrence Bragg) of the 1915 Nobel Prize (inscribed on the front free endpaper "Professor Bragg with the author's kind regards").
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. "Rutherford's summary of the subject of radioactivity, incorporating all the advances made since the publication of the second edition of Radio-activity in 1905" (Norman). Bragg and his son (the only father and son Nobel Prize winning team) had constructed the first X-ray spectrometer. He is cited 17 times in the index Radioactive substances, a measure of the importance of his contribution to the subject. Norman 1872.
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FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. "Rutherford's summary of the subject of radioactivity, incorporating all the advances made since the publication of the second edition of Radio-activity in 1905" (Norman). Bragg and his son (the only father and son Nobel Prize winning team) had constructed the first X-ray spectrometer. He is cited 17 times in the index Radioactive substances, a measure of the importance of his contribution to the subject. Norman 1872.