The Collected Papers of Lord Rutherford of Nelson

Volume 1

Ernest Rutherford

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781317698913
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Foreword
• Table of Contents
• The Young Rutherford
• 1894 Magnetization of Iron by High-frequency Discharges
• 1895 Magnetic Viscosity
• 1896 A Magnetic Detector of Electrical Waves and some of its Applications
• On the Passage of Electricity through Gases Exposed to Röntgen Rays
• 1897 On the Electrification of Gases exposed to Röntgen Rays, and the Absorption of Röntgen Radiation by Gases and Vapours
• The Velocity and Rate of Recombination of the Ions of Gases exposed to Röntgen Radiation
• 1898 The Discharge of Electrification by Ultra-violet Light
• Some Reminiscences of Professor Ernest Rutherford during his time at McGill University, Montreal
• 1899 Uranium Radiation and the Electrical Conduction Produced by it
• Thorium and Uranium Radiation
• 1900 A Radioactive Substance emitted from Thorium Compounds
• Radioactivity Produced in Substances by the Action of Thorium Compounds
• 1901 Energy of Röntgen and Becquerel Rays, and the Energy required to produce an Ion in Gases
• Einfluss der Temperatur auf die „Emanationen“ radioaktiver Substanzen
• The New Gas from Radium
• Emanations from Radio-active Substances
• Dependence of the Current through Conducting Gases on the Direction of the Electric Field
• Transmission of Excited Radioactivity
• Discharge of Electricity from Glowing Platinum and the Velocity of the Ions
• 1902 Übertragung erregter Radioaktivität
• Erregte Radioaktivität und in der Atmosphäre hervorgerufene Ionisation
• Versuche über erregte Radioaktivität
• The Radioactivity of Thorium Compounds, I
• The Existence of Bodies Smaller than Atoms
• Penetrating Rays from Radio-active Substances
• Comparison of the Radiations from Radioactive Substances
• The Radioactivity of Thorium Compounds
• Deviable Rays of Radioactive Substances(A. G. Grier)
• The Cause and Nature of Radioactivity, I
• The Cause and Nature of Radioactivity, II
• Excited Radioactivity and Ionization of the Atmosphere
• Note on the Condensation Points of the Thorium and Radium Emanations
• 1903 Excited Radioactivity and the Method of its Transmission
• The Magnetic and Electric Deviation of the Easily Absorbed Rays from Radium
• A Penetrating Radiation from the Earth’s Surface
• Radio-activity of Ordinary Materials
• The Radioactivity of Uranium
• A Comparative Study of the Radioactivity of Radium and Thorium
• Some Remarks on Radioactivity
• Condensation of the Radioactive Emanations
• Radioactive Change
• The Amount of Emanation and Helium from Radium
• Heating Effect of the Radium Emanation
• Heating Effect of the Radium Emanation
• Radioactive Processes
• 1904 Does the Radio-activity of Radium depend upon its Concentration?
• Heating Effect of the Radium-emanation
• Heating Effect of the Radium Emanation
• Nature of the Gamma Rays from Radium
• The Radiation and Emanation of Radium, I
• The Radiation and Emanation of Radium, II
• Slow Transformation Products of Radium
• The Succession of Changes in Radioactive Bodies
• The Heating Effect of the Gamma Rays from Radium
• Der Unterschied zwischen radioaktiver und chemischer Verwandlung
• Les Problèmes Actuels de la Radioactivité
• 1905 Radium—the Cause of the Earth’s Heat
• Slow Transformation Products of Radium
• 1905 Charge carried by the Alpha Rays from Radium
• Heating Effect of the Gamma Rays from Radium
• Note on the Radioactivity of Weak Radium Solutions
• The Relative Proportion of Radium and Uranium in Radio-active Minerals
• Some Properties of the Alpha Rays from Radium (Second Paper)
• Charge carried by the Alpha and Beta Rays of Radium
• Slow Transformation Products of Radium
• 1906 Some Properties of the Rays from Radium
• Magnetic and Electric Deflection of the Alpha Rays from Radium
• The Retardation of the Velocity of the Alpha Particles in passing through Matter
• The Relative Proportion of Radium and Uranium in Radio-active Minerals
• Retardation of the Alpha Particle from Radium in passing through Matter
• Distribution of the Intensity of the Radiation from Radioactive Sources
• Absorption of the Radio-active Emanations by Charcoal
• The Recent Radium Controversy
• The Mass and Velocity of the Alpha Particles Expelled from Radium and Actinium
• Mass of the Alpha Particles from Thorium
• 1907 Production of Radium from Actinium
• The Velocity and Energy of the Alpha Particles from Radioactive Substances
• Some Cosmical Aspects of Radioactivity