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A Brief History of Lord Rutherford's Radium (2014)

Todd, Neil (Author)

Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Volume: 68, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 279-300

DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2013.0070

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Radium Physics Nuclear industry Correspondence and corresponding Radioactivity Bombs and bombing 20th century Rutherford, Ernest, 1st Baron

In this paper I give a brief summary of what is known about the acquisition, use and fate of the radium sources that were in the possession of Lord Rutherford during his lifetime. The account is written in two parts, corresponding to the periods from the discovery of radium in 1898 until his death in 1937 and then from 1937 until recent times. The history of Rutherford's radium closely shadows the history of radioactivity, the evolution of nuclear physics, the race for the bomb, and the development of the nuclear industry.

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