Isotopes by Aston, Francis William - 2012-08-31

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London:: Edward Arnold, 1922., 1922. 8vo. viii, 152 pp. 4 plates, 21 figs. or tables, index. Original navy blue blind- and gilt-stamped cloth. Very good+. Printing and the Mind of Man, 412. First edition. "Aston's invention of the mass spectrograph, an instrument giving a concentrated and extremely detailed breakdown of the constituents of analyzed material, enabled him to discover that elements are composed of atoms of varying mass, and that the atomic weight of an element is an average of the atoms comprising it. Aston used the word "isotopes" to describe atoms of differing weights within the same element, a term first coined by Frederick Soddy to describe separate elements that are nevertheless homogeneous in chemical behavior." :: Norman. Aston won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1922. NOBEL-PRIZE: "At the end of 1909 he accepted the invitation of Sir J.J. Thomson to work as his assistant at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, on studies of positive rays. It was during this period that he… Read More

London: Edward Arnold and Company, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. viii, 152pp. illustrated with 18 figures. Original navy cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good, sans jacket. Cloth has spots of foxing, light wear, former owner's name stamped on paste down, pages toned. Small slip "Printed in Great Britain" pasted on copyright page, presumably by publisher. Chemist and physicist Aston won a Nobel Prize in the year of publication for his discovery of isotopes. A title in Printing and the Mind of Man.

London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (220x140 mm). 152 pp. Original blue cloth, spine gilt. Ex libris label by Stillman Drake on inner cover. ---- DSB; Norman 77; PMM 412. - FIRST EDITION. Aston began researching the different atomic weights of two forms of neon at Cambridge in 1913 under the guidance of J.J. Thomson (discoverer of the electron). He left to fight in the First World War, but later continued, replacing Thomson's parabola apparatus with the mass spectrograph he had himself invented. His spectrograph gave more concentrated effects, which created greater clarity of identification. Aston received the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1922. "His achievements were kept continually before the scientific public by revised editions of his excellent book Isotopes (1922). This included observations on the abundance and distribution of isotopes and a clear forecast of the power… Read More

London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1922. [Chemistry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 152. Publisher's blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine. Ownership stamp to pastedown and neat inscription to title page of Danish engineer and physicist P.O. Pedersen. Occasional discreet pencil annotation else internally fine. Cloth very slightly rubbed to extremities, spine ends a little pushed. An excellent fresh copy with an interesting provenance. Fine. Aston was a chemist and physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1922 for his work on Isotopes.