Foundations of nuclear physics; facsimiles of thirteen fundamental studies as they were originally reported in the scientific journals. With a bibliography comp. by Robert T. Beyer
The positive electron, by C.D. Anderson.--The existence of a neutron, by J. Chadwick.--Experiments with high velocity positive ions: II. The disintegration of elements by high velocity protons, by J.D. Cockcroft and E.T.S. Walton.--Physique nucléaire, un nouveau type de radioactivité, by Irene Curie and F. Joliot.--Possible production of elements of atomic number higher than 92, by E. Fermi.--Versuch einer Theorie de -Strahlen, by E. Fermi.--Über die magnetische Ablenkung von Wasserstoffmolekülen und das magnetische Moment des Protons, I, by R. Frisch and O. Stern.--Zur Quantentheorie des Atomkernes, by G. Gamow.--Über den Nachweis und das Verhalten der bei der Bestrahlung des Urans mittels Neutronen entstehenden Erdalkalimetalle, by O. Hahn and F. Strassmann.--The production of high speed light ions without the use of high voltages, by E.O. Lawrence and M.S. Livingston.--The scattering of and particles by matter and the structure of the atom, by E. Rutherford.--Collision of particles with light atoms, pt. 4. An anomalous effect in nitrogen, by E. Rutherford.--On the interaction of elementary particles, I, by Hideki Yukawa.--Bibliography (p. [149]-268)