8vo, xix-164 pages and 4 plates. binding : Original printed wrappers. Cover worn.
First edition in french. Francis William Aston (1877-1945) was a British physicist and chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1922. He invented the mass spectrograph and was able to demonstrate the existence of isotopes for many non-radioactive elements. This work presents his research on isotopes, a fundamental concept for chemistry and nuclear physics, and the implications of his discoveries.