BECQUEREL, Recherches sur une propriété nouvelle de la matière, 1903
BECQUEREL, Antoine Henri.
Recherches sur une propriété nouvelle de la matière : activité radiante spontanée ou radioactivité de la matière.
Paris, Firmin Didot, 1903.
4to (282x225 mm), (4)-360-(4) pages and 13 plates. binding : Publisher's hardcover. Cover worn, spine faded. Plate X slightly worn.
First edition.
Discovery of radioactivity.
Article published in volume 46 of the Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, which is entirely devoted to him, in which Henri Becquerel gathered all his experiments on radioactivity since 1896.
The first part is devoted to his work on uranium radiation during the years 1896 and 1897. The second, his work since 1898, which was fueled by the discoveries of Pierre and Marie Curie, on Polonium and Radium.
The three scientists will share the Nobel Prize in Physics that same year, 1903.
The third part of the work is a bibliography of more than 200 works on radioactivity.
references: En Français dans le texte [332 : "Les travaux de Becquerel commencés en 1896, furent publiés en 1903 sous le titre : Recherches sur une propriété nouvelle de la matière, constituant le tome 46 des Mémoires de L'Académie des sciences."], PMM [393 : "his definitive work, containing a chronological narrative of his investigations, his mature conclusions and a bibliography"], Norman [158: "An extended memoir of Becquerel's investigations in radioactivity, including his identification of electrons in radiations of radiom(1899-1900) and hist account of the evidence of a radioactive transformation (1901)"].
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