Lot 285
Radioactivity.- Becquerel (Henri) Recherches sur une Propriété Nouvelle de la Matière. Activité Radiante Spontanée ou Radioactivité de la Matière, first edition, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1903.
Hammer Price: £750
Description
Radioactivity.- Becquerel (Antoine Henri) Recherches sur une Propriété Nouvelle de la Matière. Activité Radiante Spontanée ou Radioactivité de la Matière, first edition, in Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, vol.46, 13 plates at end, original blue printed wrappers, slightly chipped and faded at edges and spine, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, 4to, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1903.
⁂ The first edition of Becquerel's definitive work on radioactivity. In 1903 he won the Nobel Prize for Physics with the Curies "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity."
Description
Radioactivity.- Becquerel (Antoine Henri) Recherches sur une Propriété Nouvelle de la Matière. Activité Radiante Spontanée ou Radioactivité de la Matière, first edition, in Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, vol.46, 13 plates at end, original blue printed wrappers, slightly chipped and faded at edges and spine, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, 4to, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1903.
⁂ The first edition of Becquerel's definitive work on radioactivity. In 1903 he won the Nobel Prize for Physics with the Curies "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity."
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