Structure of the Atom

Abstract

CO long ago as 1919, Prof. Stock was invited to deliver a series of lectures at the colour works of Fr. Bayer and Co. at Leverkusen, and these were translated into English by Prof. S. Sugden and published in 1923 under the title “The Structure of Atoms”. In 1932 and 1933, Dr. Karl Rast of Leverkusen delivered two lectures on a similar subject, and these have now been translated into English by Dr. W. 0. Kermack and published under the title “Modern Views of Atomic Structure”, together with an appendix in which twelve additional points are discussed. Both books are largely concerned with the basis which underlies the periodic classification of the elements; but whereas in the first volume this is interpreted mainly with the help of the nucleus atom and Moseley's determinations of atomic numbers, the later volume gives the place of honour to Pauli's ‘exclusion principle’, as the basis for the Rydberg series, in which the periodic classification finds a simple and exact algebraical expression.

Modern Views of Atomic Structure

By Dr. Karl Rast. Translated from the German by Dr. W. O. Kermack. Pp. x + 156. (London: Frederick Muller, Ltd., 1935.) 7s. 6d. net.