ASTON, F[RANCIS] W[ILLIAM]. Isotopes. Plates. London: Edward Arnold, 1922. 8vo, original blue cloth. FIRST EDITION. PMM 412. (2)

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ASTON, F[RANCIS] W[ILLIAM]. Isotopes. Plates. London: Edward Arnold, 1922. 8vo, original blue cloth. FIRST EDITION. PMM 412. (2)

Provenance

Physicist William Draper Harkins's copy, with his signature and ownership stamp on front free endpaper. Aston used Harkins's concept of "packing" to explain deviations of atomic masses from the "whole-number rule".

Lot Essay

[With:] THOMSON, JOSEPH JOHN. Conduction of Electricity through Gases. Cambridge, 1903. 8vo, original green cloth; library bookplate on front pastedown (rubberstamp cancelled); cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION. PMM 386d.

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