Rutherford gathers the fast-moving research on uranium, thorium, radium and actinium into one account: how radiation ionizes gases, how it is measured, the nature of the alpha, beta and gamma rays, the emanations and excited activity, and the transformation products of each element. Binding it together is the theory that radioactive atoms are spontaneously breaking down.
A landmark of modern physics by the scientist who won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Download the free EPUB.