Article ID: CBB000009948

Rutherford's Radio-activity and alpha ray research: The case of a misdated letter (1979)

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Description Internal evidence from Rutherford's letter to his mother dated as Aug. 1, 1902 shows it to have been written in February 1902, when he began to write his first book on radioactivity. (G. B. KAUFFMAN)


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Authors & Contributors
Trenn, Thaddeus J.
Badash, Lawrence
Todd, Neil
Temmer, G. M.
Stuewer, Roger H.
Romer, Alfred
Journals
American Journal of Physics
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Rivista di Storia della Scienza
Rittenhouse: Journal of the American Scientific Instrument Enterprise
Lychnos
Publishers
Yale University Press
Birkhäuser
Taylor & Francis
Concepts
Physics
Radioactivity
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Quantum mechanics
Bombs and bombing
Radium
People
Rutherford, Ernest, 1st Baron
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Soddy, Frederick
Solvay, Ernest
Pettersson, Hans
Langevin, Paul
Time Periods
20th century
Places
Australia
Vienna (Austria)
Institutions
McGill University
Cavendish Laboratory
Cambridge University
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