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Recherches sur une Propriete Nouvelle de la Matie

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Title: Recherches sur une Propriété Nouvelle de la Matiére. Activité Radiante Spontanée ou Radioactivité de la Matiére.
Author: Becquerel, M. Henri
Description: [4], 360, [4] pp., comprising the whole of Mémoires de l'Académiie des Sciences, Vol. 46. With 13 collotype plates. 11¼x9, original printed blue-gray wrappers, with custom drop-back box made of leather-backed green cloth, green gilt-lettered spine labels. First Edition.The first printing of Becquerel's landmark treatise on radioactivity, taking up the entire issue of the Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France, Vol. 46. Printing and the Mind of Man, 393, calls this "His definitive work, containing, a chronological narrative of his investigations, his mature conclusions and a bibliography of 214 treatises on radioactivity, dating from his first paper in 1896." He and the Curies shared the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics. The photographs reproduced in collotype at the rear of the work provide dramatic evidence of uranium radiation (originally called "Becquerel Rays") on his lab plates.
Heading: zzkPlace Published: Paris
Publisher: Firmin-Didot
Date Published: 1903

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