Rutherford (Ernest) Radio-Activity, first edition, half-titles, plates and diagrams, faint spotting to endpapers, occasional faint abrasion marks where labels or stamps removed, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Dibner Heralds of Science 51; Grolier/Horblit 51], 8vo, Cambridge, 1904.
⁂ First edition of Rutherford's survey of contemporary knowledge of the entire field of radioactivity. It includes a discussion of Rutherford's revolutionary transformation theory, according to which radioactivity is a by-product of the transmutation of one element into another.
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