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SODDY, FREDERICK. 1877-1956. The Interpretation of the Atom. London: John Murray, 1932.
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SODDY, FREDERICK. 1877-1956.
The Interpretation of the Atom. London: John Murray, 1932.
8vo. xviii [2], 355 pp. With 20 plates, folding table, text illustrations. Original folding tables at the back replaced with a revised "Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements." Original cloth. Clamshell case. Binding a bit shaken, corners bumped, spine sunned.
Provenance: Heavily annotated by the author, with numerous manuscript and tipped-in typescript additions and revisions dating from 1940-45; Jeremy Norman.
FIRST EDITION, BRITISH ISSUE, THE AUTHOR'S OWN HEAVILY REVISED COPY. Soddy's Interpretation of the Atom, which superseded his classic Interpretation of Radium (1909; 4th ed 1922), deals with developments in radioactivity and atomic chemistry from the turn of the century to the time of writing. Only one edition of The Interpretation of the Atom ever appeared in print. However, this copy shows that Soddy at one time intended to publish an updated edition covering advances in the field up to 1940, with an appendix touching on the events leading up to the detonation of the atomic bomb in 1945. Evidently, Soddy abandoned his plan to publish the revision, thus leaving unpublished the thousands of words of revisions and additions recorded in this volume. Later he incorporated the gist of his revisions into his Story of Atomic Energy (1949), which, according to its preface, replaces both the 1909 and 1932 works. Soddy collaborated with Rutherford in the crucial alpha-ray experiments that led to their revolutionary disintegration theory of radioactivity (1901-3). He was the first to recognize that the chemically identical atoms of different atomic weights discovered by radioactivity researchers were all varieties of the same chemical element, and introduced the term "isotope" to describe this phenomenon. He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for chemistry for his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes, which paralleled Bohr's physical investigations in providing crucial evidence for the nuclear origins of alpha- and beta-decay.
8vo. xviii [2], 355 pp. With 20 plates, folding table, text illustrations. Original folding tables at the back replaced with a revised "Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements." Original cloth. Clamshell case. Binding a bit shaken, corners bumped, spine sunned.
Provenance: Heavily annotated by the author, with numerous manuscript and tipped-in typescript additions and revisions dating from 1940-45; Jeremy Norman.
FIRST EDITION, BRITISH ISSUE, THE AUTHOR'S OWN HEAVILY REVISED COPY. Soddy's Interpretation of the Atom, which superseded his classic Interpretation of Radium (1909; 4th ed 1922), deals with developments in radioactivity and atomic chemistry from the turn of the century to the time of writing. Only one edition of The Interpretation of the Atom ever appeared in print. However, this copy shows that Soddy at one time intended to publish an updated edition covering advances in the field up to 1940, with an appendix touching on the events leading up to the detonation of the atomic bomb in 1945. Evidently, Soddy abandoned his plan to publish the revision, thus leaving unpublished the thousands of words of revisions and additions recorded in this volume. Later he incorporated the gist of his revisions into his Story of Atomic Energy (1949), which, according to its preface, replaces both the 1909 and 1932 works. Soddy collaborated with Rutherford in the crucial alpha-ray experiments that led to their revolutionary disintegration theory of radioactivity (1901-3). He was the first to recognize that the chemically identical atoms of different atomic weights discovered by radioactivity researchers were all varieties of the same chemical element, and introduced the term "isotope" to describe this phenomenon. He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for chemistry for his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes, which paralleled Bohr's physical investigations in providing crucial evidence for the nuclear origins of alpha- and beta-decay.