The Newer Alchemy

Originally published in 1937, this book discusses the contributions that the study of radiation can make to the problem of elemental transmutation.

Ernest Rutherford (Author)

9781107440425, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 4 December 2014

92 pages
19.8 x 12.9 x 0.5 cm, 0.1 kg

Originally published in 1937, this book contains the modified text of the Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture for the previous year. Lord Rutherford discusses the contributions that the study of radiation can make to the problem of elemental transmutation, which mankind has attempted unsuccessfully for centuries. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in radiation and historical attitudes towards it.

The newer alchemy: based on the Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture delivered at Newnham College, Cambridge, November 1936.

Subject Areas: Atomic & molecular physics [PHM]