Abstract
THIS volume covers a wider field than is usual in a short treatise on atomic physics, and touches upon most of the important work done between about 1910 and 1926. It includessections on atomic rays, superconductivity, conduction in crystals, spectrophotometry, and electrically and optically controlled chemical reactions, in addition to the more usual topics, and if it were well translated, would be invaluable both as an advanced text-book for honours classes in physics, and as a survey of the subject for research workers in other branches of experimental science. Dr. Fuchs has, however, failed to do justice to the original, and his translation can only be recommended as it stands with the warning that the reader must be prepared to be irritated by the many unusual expressions that he employs.
Matter, Electricity, Energy: the Principles of Modern Atomistics and Experimental Results of Atomic Investigation.
By Prof. Walter Gerlach. Translated from the second German edition by Dr. Francis J. Fuchs. Pp. xii + 427. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1928.) 30s. net.
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Matter, Electricity, Energy: the Principles of Modern Atomistics and Experimental Results of Atomic Investigation . Nature 124, 176 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124176d0
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