Collision of alpha Particles with Light Atoms. I: Hydrogen II: Velocity of the Hydrogen Atom III: Nitrogen and Oxygen Atoms IV: An Anomalous Effect in Nitrogen. [Complete set]. - [PMM 411 - SPLITTING THE ATOM]

RUTHERFORD, ERNEST.

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London, Francis and Taylor, 1919. 8to. (210x130mm). Pages 537-87 of volume 37 of 'The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, and Journal of Science'. Bound together (with title page and contents) in recent attractive marbled boards (Hanne Jensen). Leather title with gilt lettering on front board. A fine and clean copy. First printing of the first announcement of artificial transmutation and the discovery of the proton. By bombarding Nitrogen atoms with alpha particles Rutherford produced Hydrogen nucleus and Oxygen 17 - the first man made nuclear reaction. PMM 411, Norman 1873.

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• Title: Collision of alpha Particles with Light Atoms. I: Hydrogen II: Velocity of the Hydrogen Atom III: Nitrogen and Oxygen Atoms IV: An Anomalous Effect in Nitrogen. [Complete set]. - [PMM 411 - SPLITTING THE ATOM]
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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