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RAMSAY, WILLIAM AND FREDERICK SODDY. NOBEL LAUREATES IN CHEMISTRY. Experiments in Radioactivity and the Production of Helium from Radium. From the Smithsonian Report for 1903, Pages 203-206.
Washington DC:, Smithsonian Institution,, 1904.. Paperback. A Very Good- Offprint in Original Printed Wrappers. Wrappers Are Age Darkened. 3"X1/2' Piece Missing Front Wrapper Margin, 2 Other Small Chips. No Text Affected. Small Marginal Dampstain Not Affecting Text. 8vo. See Printing and the Mind of Man #411 Under 'splitting the Atom' Carter & Muir Have Written; "Soddy, in Conjunction with William Ramsay, Demonstrated This Fact (That Radioactivity Is a By-Product of Transmutation of One Form of Matter Into Another) When They Showed That Radon, an Emanation of Radium, Disintegrated Into Helium". This Is the Offprint of the American Publication of That Finding Which Also Appeared in the Proceedings of the Royal Society in the Same Year (1903). Very Good-, William Ramsay (1852-1916) was a noted chemist who, with Lord Rayleigh, discovered argon in 1894. Later he identified helium, neon, krypton and xenon. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1904. Frederick Soddy (1877-1956) was a British chemist awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1921 for, in the words of the Nobel Committee: "His contribution to our knowledge of radioactive substances and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes" Indeed it is Soddy who gave the name "isotopes" to elements with identical chemical properties but different atomic weights.
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