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BECQUEREL, Henri (1852-1908). Recherches sur une propriété nouvelle de la matière activité radiante spontanée ou radioactivité de la matière, Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1903.
4° (282 x 225mm.), 13 half tone plates, original pale green-blue wrappers (small section torn away from foot of backstrip, a little faded at edges), later blue cloth slipcase.
"An extended memoir of Becquerel's investigations in radioactivity, including his identification of electrons of radiations and of radium (1899-1900) and his account of the evidence of a radioactive transformation (1901)" (Norman). Published as vol. 46 of Memoires de l' Académie des Sciences de l' Institut de France. Dibner 163; Norman 158; PMM 393.
4° (282 x 225mm.), 13 half tone plates, original pale green-blue wrappers (small section torn away from foot of backstrip, a little faded at edges), later blue cloth slipcase.
"An extended memoir of Becquerel's investigations in radioactivity, including his identification of electrons of radiations and of radium (1899-1900) and his account of the evidence of a radioactive transformation (1901)" (Norman). Published as vol. 46 of Memoires de l' Académie des Sciences de l' Institut de France. Dibner 163; Norman 158; PMM 393.
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