Abstract
Few discoveries, if any, have influenced so rapidly and deeply physics, chemistry and many kindred sciences as that of the spontaneous disintegration of radioactive elements. The development following this discovery attracted also the lay mind, which was struck by the idea of evolution of inorganic in the field of geology and cosmology, to which the application of the science of radioactivity led. The layman's interest was enhaced by the spectacular sides like that of electroscopic discharge at the approach of the experimenter carrying radium in his pocket or suitcase, by the radium clock, and, by no means least, by the possibility of the medical application of redium rays against both tedious and fatal diseases.
The Interpretation of the Atom.
By Prof. Frederick Soddy. Pp. xviii + 355 + 20 plates. (London: John Murray, 1932.) 21s. net.
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HEVESY, G. The Interpretation of the Atom . Nature 131, 4–5 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131004a0
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