Abstract
SINCE 1942, when this revised edition of an older book of 1937 appeared, relatively little has been published on nuclear physics, except in connexion with fission. This exceedingly lucid account of the subject, which has been received recently, probably remains one of the best of the few available texts of its kind. Emphasis is primarily on the experimental side, but the references to nuclear theory, and to fundamental matters of a more general character, are apt and suggestive. The plates constitute a most attractive feature. There are twenty-four of them, each beautifully printed on a separate page. A number are copied from, other publications, but some appear to be original. Altogether they provide, among other things, a vivid record of the appearance of a nuclear physics laboratory and of the apparatus used in it, which is possibly of more than passing interest.
Vie et transmutations des atomes
Jean
Thibaud
Par. (Sciences d'aujourd'hui.) Deuxième édition revisée. Pp. 290 + 24 plates. (Paris: Albin Michel, 1942.) 86 francs.
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Vie et transmutations des atomes. Nature 159, 7 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159007d0
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