ABSTRACT

This is the first of three volumes which together contain the complete range of Lord Rutherford’s scientific papers, incorporating in addition addresses, general lectures, letters to editors, accounts of his scientific work and personal recollections by friends and colleagues.

Volume one, first published in 1962, includes early papers written in New Zealand, at the Cavendish Laboratory and during the Montreal period (1894-1906), as well as an introduction to Rutherford’s early work by Sir Edward Appleton, and some reminiscences of his time in Canada by Professors H.L. Bronson and Otto Hahn. In each volume can be found photographs of Rutherford and his collaborators, multiple graphs, tables, diagrams and charts, and also pictures of the original apparatus which is of historic interest.

chapter |10 pages

The Young Rutherford

chapter |22 pages

Magnetic Viscosity

chapter |4 pages

Thorium and Uranium Radiation

(Preliminary note)

chapter |5 pages

The New Gas from Radium

chapter |27 pages

The Radioactivity of Thorium Compounds

I An Investigation of the Radioactive Emanation

chapter |22 pages

The Radioactivity of Thorium Compounds

II The Cause and Nature of Radioactivity

chapter |13 pages

Radioactive Change

chapter |4 pages

Radioactive Processes

chapter |9 pages

The Radiation and Emanation of Radium

Part I

chapter |8 pages

The Radiation and Emanation of Radium

Part II

chapter |52 pages

The Succession of Changes in Radioactive Bodies

Bakerian Lecture