RUTHERFORD, E.

Übertragung erregter Radioaktivität.

[Leipzig, Hirzel, 1902].

Royal8vo, [275 x 195 mm]. Without wrappers, as issued. Offprint from "Physikalische Zeitschrift", 3. Jahrgang, No. 10. Pp. 210-214. With "Ueberreicht vom Verfasser" printed in top right corner of first leaf. Small blue gummed labels (from the library of Becquerel) pasted to top of first leaf. First leaf with brownspotting in inner margin. Traces after having been folded hjorizontally, otherwise fine.

Rare offprint, given by the author to Henri Becquerel, of Rutherford's important paper on the transferal of excited radioactivity.
British-New Zealand chemist and physicist, Ernest Rutherford, became known as the father of nuclear physics. He discovered the concept of radioactive half life, proved that radioactivity involved the transmutation of one chemical element to another, and also differentiated and named alpha and beta radiation.

Rutherford was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1908 for "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances".
Becquerel was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1903 for "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity".

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