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THE needs of the general scientific worker and the scientifically minded layman wishing to acquire a general knowledge of the advances and spirit of contemporary physics are very fittingly met by Prof. G. P. Thomson's admirable little work. The author has, in a short compass, presented an upto-date survey of physical theory and its bearing on chemistry with an extensiveness which would not be suspected from the title. Starting with the spectrum and not forgetting cosmic rays, the reader is led through the fundamental laws of chemistry to the electron, isotopes, positive-ray analysis, crystal structure, and radioactivity to energy units, the conception of the quantum, and its development on the older theory.
The Atom.
By Prof. G. P. Thomson. (The Home University Library of Modern Knowledge.) Pp.252. (London: Thorn ton Butterworth, Ltd., 1930.) 2s. 6d. net.
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BLIGH, N. [Book Reviews]. Nature 125, 667 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125667a0
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