Author: Broda, Engelbert [1910-1983] ; & Schönfeld, Thomas
Title: Radiochemische Methoden der Mikrochemie
Description: Wien, Springer-Verlag, 1955. 1/4-cloth. 25x17cm, 276 pp. Caption title. Series: Handbuch der mikrochemischen Methoden, Band 2. "Nicht im Handel".. Minor wear. A typed title-label to spine. VG. ¶ Inked presentation inscription at head of title signed by both authors to Friedrich Adolf Paneth [1887-1958]. ["Paneth was an Austrian-born British chemist. Fleeing the Nazis, he escaped to Britain. He became a naturalized British citizen in 1939. After the war, Paneth returned to Germany to become director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in 1953. He was considered the greatest authority of his time on volatile hydrides and also made important contributions to the study of the stratosphere...In 1927, Paneth and Kurt Peters published his results on the transformation of hydrogen to helium, now known as Cold fusion. They later retracted the results, saying they had measured background helium from the air...,. The mineral Panethite is named after him, as is the lunar crater Paneth" - wikipedia]. ["Engelbert Broda was an Austrian chemist and physicist suspected by some to have been a KGB spy code-named Eric, who could have been a main Soviet source of information on British and American nuclear research...From 1940 he worked at the Medical Research Council at the University College London, researching the transformation of light into chemical energy. From 1941 he worked at the Cavendish Laboratory, on radioactivity and nuclear fission....In 2009 Broda was accused of espionage in a book based upon the journalist Alexander Vassiliev's access to formerly undisclosed KGB archives. According to the book, KGB reports from August 1943 conclude that Broda ('Eric') was the main Soviet source of information on British and American nuclear research" - wikipedia].

Keywords: History of Science, Microanalysis, Chemistry, Radioactivity, Analytical Chemistr, , , ,