Radioactivity
CUP 1904, 2nd Edition 1905, (pp580).
Ern dedicated this book to "JJ Thomson. A tribute of my respect and admiration."
Radioactive Transformations
Charles Scribner's Sons, NY 1906 (pp287) $3.50
(Silliman Memorial Lectures, Yale University, March 1905.
Radioactive Substances and their Radiations
CUP 1913.
Radiations from Radioactive Substances (with Chadwick and Ellis)
CUP (UK) and Macmillan (USA), 1930, (pp588).
Publications by Rutherford
Work done in New Zealand 1893-1894
1894
Magnetization of Iron by High Frequency Discharges (Note, this is Rutherford's second research work, of 1894.)
Trans NZ Inst xxvii 481-513 1894
1895
Magnetic Viscosity (Note, this is Rutherford's first research work of 1893.)
Trans NZ Inst xxviii 182-204 1895
Work done at Cambridge 1895-1898
1896
A Magnetic Detector of Electric Waves and Some of its Applications
Phil Trans Royal Society A189 1-24 1896
On the Passage of Electricity through Gases Exposed to Rontgen Rays (With JJ Thomson)
Phil Mag ser 5 xlii 392-407 1896
1897
On the Electrification of Gases exposed to Rontgen Rays, and the Absorption of Rontgen
Radiation by Gases and Vapours
Phil Mag ser 5 xliii 241-255 1897
The Velocity and Rate of Recombination of the Ions of Gases exposed to Rontgen Radiation
Phil Mag ser 5 xliv 422-440 1897
1898
The Discharge of Electrification by Ultra-violet Light
Proc Cam Phil Soc ix 401-416 1898
Uranium Radiation and the Electrical Conduction Produced by It
Phil Mag ser 5 xlvii 109-163 1899
Work Done at McGill 1898-1907
1899
Thorium and Uranium Radiation (With R B Owens)
Trans Roy Soc Canada 2 9-12 1899
1900
A Radioactive Substance emitted from Thorium Compounds
Phil Mag ser 5 xlix 1-14 1900
Radioactivity Produced in Substances by the Action of Thorium Compounds
Phil Mag ser 5 xlix 161-192 1990
1901
Energy of Rontgen and Becquerel Rays, and the Energy required to produce an Ion in Gasses
(With R K McClung)
Phil Trans Roy Soc A196 25-59 1901
Einfluss der Temperatur auf die Emanationen radioaktiver Substanzen
Physikalische Zeitschrift 2 429-31
The New Gas from Radium (With H T Brooks)
Trans Roy Soc of Canada sec iii ser ii vol 7 21-25 1901
Emanations from Radio-active Substances
Nature 64 157-8 1901
Dependence of the Current through Conducting Gases on the Direction of the Electric Field
Phil Mag ser 6 ii 210-228 1901
Transmission of Excited Radioactivity
Bul Amer Phys Soc II 37-43 1901
Discharge of Electricity from Glowing Platinum
Trans Roy Soc of Canada 727-33 1901
Discharge of Electricity from Glowing Platinum and the Velocity of the Ions
Phys Rev 13 no.6 321-344 1901
1902
Ubertragung erregter Radioaktivitat
Physikalische Zeitschrift 3 210-14 1902
Erregte Radioaktivitat und in der Atmosphare hervorgerufene Ionisation (With S I Allen)
Physikalische Zeitschrift 3 225-30 1902
Versuche uber erregte Radioaktivitat
Physikalische Zeitschrift 3 254-7 1902
The Radioactivity of Thorium Compounds I (With F Soddy)
Trans Chem Soc 81 321-350 1902
The Existence of Bodies Smaller than Atoms
Trans Roy Soc of Canada 8 79-86 1902
Penetrating Rays from Radio-active Substances
Nature 66 318-9 1902
Comparison of the Radiations from Radioactive Substances (With H T Brooks)
Phil Mag ser 6 iv 1-23 1902
The Radioactivity of Thorium Compounds II (With F Soddy)
Trans of Chem Soc 81 837-860 1902
Deviable Rays of Radioactive Substances (With A Grier)
Phil Mag ser 6, iv 315-330 1902
The Cause and Nature of Radioactivity I (With F Soddy)
Phil Mag ser 6, iv 370-396 1902
The Cause and Nature of Radioactivity II (With F Soddy)
Phil Mag ser 6, iv 569-585 1902
Excited Radioactivity and Ionization of the Atmosphere (With S J Allen)
Phil Mag ser 6, iv 704-723 1902
Note on the condensation points of thorium and radium emanations (With F Soddy)
Proc Chem Soc 219-20 1902
1903
Excited Radioactivity and the Method of its Transmission
Phil Mag ser 6, v 95-117 1903
The Magnetic and Electric Deviation of the Easily Absorbed Rays from Radium
Phil Mag ser 6, v 177-187 1903
A Penetrating Radiation from the Earth's Surface (With H L Cooke)
Phys Rev 16 183 1903
Radio-activity of Ordinary Materials
Nature 67 511-2 1903
The Radioactivity of Uranium (With F Soddy)
Phil Mag ser 6, v 441-445 1903
A Comparative Study of the Radioactivity of Radium and Thorium (With F Soddy)
Phil Mag ser 6, v 445-457 1903
Some Remarks on Radioactivity
Phil Mag ser 6, v 481-5 1903
Condensation of the Radioactive Emanations (With F Soddy)
Phil Mag ser 6, v 561-76 1903
Radioactive Change (With F Soddy)
Phil Mag ser 6, v 576-91 1903
The Amount of Emanation and Helium from Radium
Nature 68 366-7 1903
Heating Effect of the Radium Emanation (With H T Barnes)
Nature 68 622 1903
Heating Effect of the Radium Emanation (With H T Barnes)
Nature 69 126 1903
Radioactive Processes
Proc Phys Soc 18 595-7 1903
1904
Does the Radio-activity of Radium depend upon its Concentration?
Nature 69 222 1904
Heating Effect of the Radium-emanation
Trans of Aus Assoc for Adv of Sci 87-91 1904
Heating Effect of the Radium Emanation (With TH T Barnes)
Phil Mag ser6, vii 202-219 1904
Nature of the Gamma Rays from Radium
Nature 69 436-7 1904
The Radiation and Emanation of Radium Part 1
Technics 11-16 1904
The Radiation and Emanation of Radium Part II
Technics 171-5 1904
Slow Transformation Products of Radium
Phil Mag ser 6, viii 636-650 1904
The Succession of Changes in Radioactive Bodies
Phil Trans of the Roy Soc ser A, vol 204 169-219
The Heating Effect of the Gamma Rays from Radium (With H T Barnes)
Nature 71 151-2 1904
Der Unterschied zwischen radioaktiver und chemischer Verwandlung
Jahrbuch der Radioaktivitat und Electronik 1-25 1904
1905
Les Problemes Actuels de la Radioactivite (Int Cong at St Louis Sep 1904)
Archives des Sciences physiques et naturelles xix 1905
The Popular Science MonthlyMay 1905 (Shortened English version with
new results.)
Radium - the Cause of the Earth's Heat
Harpers Mag 390-6 1905
Slow Transformation Products of Radium
Nature 71 341-2 1905
Charge carried by the Alpha Rays from Radium
Nature 71 413-4 1905
Heating Effect of the Gamma Rays from Radium (With H T Barnes)
Phil Mag ser 6, ix 621-628 1905
Note on the Radioactivity of Weak Radium Solutions
Phil Mag ser 6, ix 711-12 1905
The Relative Proportion of Radium and Uranium in Radio-active Minerals (With B B Boltwood)
Amer J Sci vol 20 55-56 1905
Some Properties of the Alpha Rays from Radium
Trans Roy Soc of Canada 1113-16 1905
Some Properties of the Alpha Rays from Radium
Phil Mag ser 6, xi 163-176 1905
Charge Carried by the Alpha and Beta Rays of Radium
Phil Mag ser 6, x 193-208 1905
Slow Transformation Products of Radium
Phil Mag ser 6, x 290-306 1905
1906
Magnetic and Electric Deflection of the Alpha Rays from Radium
Phys Rev 22 122-3 1906
The Retardation of the Velocity of the Alpha Particles in Passing Through Matter
Phil Mag ser 6, xi 553-4 1906
The Relative Proportion of Radium and Uranium in Radio-active Minerals (With B B Boltwood)
Amer J of Sci vol 22 1-3 1906
Retardation of the Alpha Particle from Radium in passing through Matter
Phil Mag ser 6, xii 134-146 1906
Distribution of the Intensity of the Radiation from Radioactive Sources
Phil Mag ser 6, vol xii 152-158 1906
The Recent Radium Controversy
Nature 74 634-5 1906
The Mass and Velocity of the Alpha Particles Expelled from Radium and Actinium
Phil Mag ser 6, xii 348-71 1906
Mass of the Alpha Particles from Thorium (With Otto Hahn)
Phil Mag ser 6, xii 371-378 1906
1907
Production of Radium from Actinium
Nature 75 270-1 1907
The Velocity and Energy of the Alpha Particles from Radioactive Substances
Phil Mag ser 6, xiii 110-117 1907
Some Cosmical Aspects of Radioactivity
J of Roy Astr Soc of Canada 145-165 1907
Work done at Manchester 1907-1919
The Origin of Radium
Nature 76 126 1907
The Effect of High Temperature on the Activity of the Products of Radium (with J E
Petavel)
Abstract of the British Association Report 456-7 1907
Origin of Radium
Nature 76 661 1907
The Production and Origin of Radium
Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosphical Society Oct 29
1907
The Production and Origin of Radium
Phil Mag ser 6, XIV 733-49 1907
1908
A Method of Counting the Number of Alpha Particles from Radioactive Matter (With H Geiger)
Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosphical Soc vol lii, No
9 1-3 1908
Recent Advances in Radioactivity (RI Talk 31 Jan 1908)
Nature 77 422-6 1908
Experiments with the Radium Emanation. I, The Volume of the Emanation
Phil Mag ser 6 XVI 300-12 1908
Spectrum of the Radium Emanation (With T Royds)
Nature 78 220-1 1908
Spectrum of the Radium Emanation
Phil Mag ser 6, XVI 313-17 1908
An Electrical Method of Counting the Number of Alpha Particles from Radioactive Substances
(With H Geiger)
Proc Roy Soc A81 141-61 1908
The Charge and Nature of the Alpha Particle (With H Geiger)
Proc Roy Soc A81 162-73 1908
The Nature and Charge of the Alpha Particles from Radioactive Substances
Nature 79 12-15 1908
The Action of the Radium Emanation upon Water (With T Royds)
Phil Mag ser 6, vxi, 812-8 1908
The Nature of the Alpha Particle (With T Royds)
Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Phil Soc IV, vol liii, No 1 1-3
1908
Some Properties of the Radium Emanation
Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Phil Soc IV, vol liii, No 2 1-2
1908
The Chemical Nature of the Alpha Particles from Radiactive Substances
Nobel Lecture Dec 11 1908
The Discharge of Electricity from Glowing Bodies
The Electrician Dec 11 343-4 1908
Der Ursrung des Radiums (Bericht)
Jahrbach der Radioaktivitat & Elekronik V Band Heft 2153-166
1908
1909
The Boiling Point of the Radium Emanation
Nature 79 457-8 1909
The Nature of the Alpha Particle from Radioactive Substances (With T Royds)
Phil Mag ser 6, xvii 281-6 1909
Differences in the Decay of the Radium Emanation (With Y Tuomikoski)
Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosphical Soc IV, vol
liii, No 12 1-2 1909
Condensation of the Radium Emanation
Phil Mag ser 6, xvii 723-9 1909
The Action of the Alpha Rays on Glass
Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosphical Soc IV, vol
liv, No 5 1 1909
Production of Helium by Radium (With B B Boltwood)
Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosphical Soc IV, vol
liv, No 6 1-2 1909
1910
Actions of the Alpha Rays on Glass
Phil Mag ser 6, xix 192-4 1910
Properties of Polonium
Nature 82 491-2 1910
Theory of the Luminosity produced in certain Substances by Alpha Rays
Proceedings of the Roy Soc ser A, lxxxiii 561-72 1910
Radium Standards and Nomenclature
Nature 84 430-1 1910
The Number of Alpha Particles emitted by Uranium and Thorium (With H Geiger)
Phil Mag ser 6, xx 691-8 1910
The Probability Variations in the Distribution of Alpha Particles (With H Geiger)
Phil Mag ser 6, xx 698-707 1910
1911
The Scattering of the Alpha and Beta Rays and the Structure of the Atom
Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosphical Soc IV, 55 18-20
1911
Untersuchungen uber die Radiumemantion II Die Umwandlungsgeschwindigkeit)
Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien CXX 303-12 1911
Die Erzeugung von Helium durch Radium (With B B Boltwood)
Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien CXX 313-36 1911
The Scattering of Alpha and Beta Particles by Matter and the Structure of the Atom
Phil Mag ser 6, xxi 669-88 1911
Transformation and Nomenclature of the Radioactive Emanations
Phil Mag ser 6, xxii 621-9 1911
The Transformation of Radium
J. Soc of Chem Ind No 11, xxx 3-14 1911
1912
A Balance Method for Comparison of Quantities of Radium and Some of its Applications (With
J Chadwick)
Proc Phys Soc xxiv 141-51 1912
The Origin of Beta and Gamma Rays from Radioactive Substances
Phil Mag ser 6, xxiv 453-62 1912
Photographic Registration of Alpha Particles (With H Geiger)
Phil Mag ser 6, xxiv 618-23 1912
On the Energy of the Group of Beta Rays from Radium
Phil Mag ser 6 xxiv 893-4 1912
Warmeentwicklung durch Radium and Radiumemanation (With H Robinson)
Akademie der Wissenschaften in WienCXX1 1491-1516 1912
1913
Heating Effect of Radium and its Emanation (With H Robinson)
Phil Mag ser 6, xxv 312-30 1913
A New International Physical Institute
Nature 90 545-6 1913
The Age of Pleochroic Haloes (With J Joly)
Phil Mag ser 6, xxv 644-57 1913
The Analysis of the Gamma Rays from Radium B and Radium C (With H Richardson)
Phil Mag ser 6, xxv 722-34 1913
The Analysis of the Gamma Rays from Radium D and Radium E (With H Richardson)
Phil Mag ser 6, xxvi 324-32 1913
The Reflection of Gamma Rays from Crystals (With E Andrade)
Nature 92 267 1913
Scattering of Alpha Particles by Gases (With M J Nuttall)
Phil Mag ser 6, xxvi 702-12 1913
The Analysis of the Beta Rays from Radium B and Radium C (With H Robinson)
Phil Mag ser 6, xxvi 717-29 1913
Uber die Masse und die Geschwindigkeiten der von den radioaktiven Substanzen ausgesendeten
Alpha Teilchen (With H Robinson)
Akademie der Wissenschaften in WienCXXII 1855-84 1913
The British Radium Standard
Nature 92 402-3 1913
The Structure of the Atom
Nature 92 423 1913
Analysis of the Gamma Rays of the Thorium and Actinium Products (With H Richardson)
Phil Mag ser 6, xxvi 937-48 1913
1914
The Structure of the Atom
Phil Mag ser 6, xxvii 488-98 1914
The Wavelength of the Soft Gamma Rays from Radium B (With E Andrade)
Phil Mag ser 6, xxvii 854-68 1914
The Structure of the Atom
Scientia xvi 337-51 1914
The Spectrum of the Penetrating Gamma Rays from Radium B and Radium C (With E Andrade)
Phil Mag ser 6, xxviii 263-73 1914
Spectrum of the Beta Rays excited by Gamma Rays (With W F Rawlinson)
Phil Mag ser 6, xxviii 281-6 1914
The Structure of Atoms and Molecules
Abstract of a discussion at the British Association Aug 18 1914
The Connexion between the Beta and Gamma Ray Spectra
Phil Mag ser 6, xxviii 305-19 1914
Radium Constants on the International Standard
Phil Mag ser 6, xxviii 320-7 1914
The Mass and Velocities of the Alpha Particles from Radioactive Substances (With H
Robinson)
Phil Mag ser 6, xxviii 552-572 1914
1915
Origin of the Spectra given by Beta and Gamma Rays of Radium
Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Phil Soc IV, vol lix 17-19
1915
Radiations from Exploding Atoms (RI talk 4 Jun 1915)
Nature 95 494-8 1915
Maximum Frequency of the X Rays from a Coolidge Tube for Different Voltages (With J Barnes
and H Richardson)
Phil Mag ser 6, xxx 339-60 1915
Efficiency of Production of X Rays from a Coolidge Tube (With J Barnes)
Phil Mag ser 6, xxx 361-7 1915
1916
Long-range Alpha Particles from Thorium (With A B Wood)
Phil Mag ser 6, xxxi 379-86 1916
1917
Penetrating Power of the X Radiation from a Coolidge Tube
Phil Mag ser6, xxxiv 153-62 1917
1919
Collision of Alpha Particles with Light Atoms I. Hydrogen
Phil Mag ser 6, xxxvii 537-61 1919
Collision of Alpha Particles with Light Atoms II. Velocity of the Hydrogen Atoms
Phil Mag ser 6, xxxvii 562-71 1919
Collision of Alpha Particles with Light Atoms III. Nitrogen and Oxygen Atoms
Phil Mag ser 6, xxxvii 571-80 1919
Collision of Alpha Particles with Light Atoms IV. An Anomalous Effect in Nitrogen
Phil Mag ser 6, xxxvii 581-87 1919
Work done at Cambridge 1919-1937
Radio-activity and Gravitation (with A H Compton)
Nature 104 412 1919
1920
Nuclear Constitution of Atoms (Bakerian Lecture, 3 Jun 1920)
Proc Roy Soc A97 374-400 1920
1921
On the Collision of Alpha Particles with Hydrogen Atoms
Phil Mag ser 6, 41 307-8 1921
The Disintegration of Elements by Alpha Particles
Nature 107 41 1921
The Mass of the Long-range Particles from Thorium C
Phil Mag ser 6, 41 570-4 1921
The Artificial Disintegration of Light Elements (With J Chadwick)
Phil Mag ser 6, 42 809-25 1921
1922
Disintegration of Elements
Nature 109 418 1922
Identification of a Missing Element
Nature 109 781 1922
The Disintegration of Elements by Alpha Particles (With J Chadwick)
Phil Mag ser 6, 44 471-32 1922
1923
Capture and Loss of Electrons by Alpha Particles
Proc Cambridge Phil Soc 21 504-10 1923
1924
The Capture and Loss of Electrons by Alpha Particles
Phil Mag ser 6, 47 277-303 1924
The Bombardment of Elements by Alpha Particles
Nature 113 457 1924
Further Experiments on the Artificial Disintegration of Elements (With J Chadwick)
Proc Phys Soc 36 417-22 1924
On the Origin and Nature of Long-range Particles observed with sources of Radium C (With J
Chadwick)
Phil Mag ser 6, 48 509-26 1924
1925
Disintegration of Atomic Nuclei
Nature 115 493-4 1925
The Natural X-ray Spectrum of Radium B (With W A Wooster)
Proc of the Cambridge Phil Soc 22 834-7 1925
Scattering of Alpha Particles by Atomic Nuclei and the Law of Force (With J Chadwick)
Phi Mag ser 6, 50 889-913 1925
1927
Atomic Nuclei and their Transformation (12th Guthrie Lecture, 25 Feb 1927)
Proc Phys Soc 39 359-72 1927
Structure of the Radioactive Atom and the Origin of the Alpha Rays
Phil Mag ser 7, 4 580-605 1927
The Scattering of Alpha Particles by Helium (With J Chadwick)
Phil Mag ser 7, 4 605-20 1927
1929
Origin of Actinium and the Age of the Earth
Nature 123 313-4 1929
Energy Relations in Artificial Disintegration (With J Chadwick)
Proc Cambridge Phil Soc 25 186-92 1929
1930
A New Method of Analysis of Groups of Alpha-Raus (1) The Alpha-Rays from Radium C, Thorium
C and Actinium (With C E Wynn-Williams)
Proc Roy Soc A 129 211-34 1930
1931
Analysis of the Long Range Alpha Particles from Radium C (With F Ward and W B Lewis)
Proc Roy Soc A 131 684-703 1931
The Origin of the Gamma-Rays (With C D Ellis)
Proc Roy Soc A132 667-8 1931
Alpha Teilchen grosser Reichweite und die Entstehung der Gamma Strahlen
Nachrichten v d Gesellschaft der Wissenschafeten zu Gottingen II 19
248-51 1931
Analysis of the Alpha Particles Emitted from Thorium C and Actinium C (With C E
Wynn-Williams and W B Lewis)
Proc Roy Soc A 133 351-66 1931
1932
The Gamma Rays from Actinium Emanation and their Origin (With B V Bowden)
Proc Roy Soc A 136 407-12 1932
1933
Analysis of Alpha Rays by an Annular Magnetic Field (With C E Wynn-Williams, W B Lewis and
B V Bowden)
Proc Roy Soc A 139 617-37 1933
Experiments on the Transmutation of Elements by Protons (With M Oliphant)
Proc Roy Soc A 141 259-81 1933
The transmutation of Lithium by Protons and by Ions of Heavy Isotope of Hydrogen (With
Oliphant and B Kinsey)
Proc Roy Soc A 141 722-33 1933
Analysis of the Long Range Alpha Particles from Radium C' by the Magnetic Focussing Method
(With W B Lewis and B V Bowden)
Proc Roy Soc A 142 347-61 1933
1934
Bombardment of the Heavy Isotope of Hydrogen by Alpha Particles (With A E Kempton)
Proc Roy Soc A 143 724-30 1934
Transmutation Effects observed with Heavy Hydrogen (With M Oliphant and P Harteck)
Nature 133 413 1934
Transmutation Effects observed with Heavy Hydrogen (With M L E Oliphant and P Harteck)
Proc Roy Soc A 144 692-703 1934
1935
The Accurate Determination of the Energy Released in Certain Nuclear Transformations (With
M L E Oliphant and A E Kempton)
Proc Roy Soc A 149 406-16 1935
Some Nuclear Transformations of Beryllium and Boron and the Masses of Light Elements (With
M L E Oliphant and A E Kempton)
Proc Roy Soc A 150 241-58 1935
1936
xxx
J Chem Soc xxx 508-516 1936
1937
The Search for the Isotopes of Hydrogen and Helium of Mass 3
Nature 140 303-5 1937
Non-Technical Writings by Rutherford
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