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IT was the late Lord Rutherford who reminded us again and again that the advance of knowledge depends upon the development of technique. Alongside this, it is equally certain that the last decade or so has provided a continuous reciprocity between the fascinating task of finding new outlets for applied physics, and the urge to press on still further with instrumentation in order to attack new problems. Probably this dual process is nowhere better seen at work than in the field of X–rays. A bare half–century has in fact sufficed to bring us from that charmingly modest—almost detached—announcement by Roentgen at Würzburg to the present moment, when X–rays are nothing accounted of in everyday life.
Applied X–Rays
By Prof. George L. Clark. (International Series in Physics.) Third edition. Pp. xvii + 674. (New York and London: McGraw–Hill Book Co., Inc., 1940.) 42s.
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RAWLINS, P. Applied X–Rays. Nature 148, 36 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148036a0
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