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A FEW years ago I wrote to NATURE (vol. lxxvi., p. 638) protesting against the proposal of Prof. Boltwood to call the member of the uranium-radium series, which he had just discovered, by the fanciful name of “ionium” instead of by a name based upon the system of nomenclature started by Sir William Crookes and extended by Prof. Rutherford. Prof. Rutherford replied (p. 661) that the time had not yet come for the establishment of a definite system of nomenclature, but that he hoped that some day “physicists and chemists would meet together to revise the whole system”. After such a decision from the first authority on the subject I could do nothing but collapse; but there are three reasons why the present moment seems to me suitable for a renewal of vitality.
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CAMPBELL, N. The Nomenclature of Radioactivity. Nature 84, 203–204 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084203b0
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