Author: SODDY, F.- radio activity.-
Title: Radio-activity: An elementary treatise, from the standpoint of the disintegration theory.
Description: London, 1904. W. 40 ills. Or. cl.g. (XII, 214, VI, 12 pp.). (adv.) P.M.M. sub nr. 411: DSB XII, 504/9. First ed. of one of Soddy's most important books. He collected all known in 1904 on radiochemistry: Damper 381: "...in 1903 Rutherford and Soddy explained all known facts by the theory that radio-activity is due to an explosive disintegration of the elementary atoms.": First ed. of the first book published by the author. A collaborator of Rutherford. Partington IV, 942, a.o.pl.

Keywords: radioactivity history theoretical electromagnetism chemistry atom atomic physics W60