RUTHERFORD, Ernest, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson (1871-1937). “The Structure of the Atom.” In: The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, Sixth Series, Vol. 27, No. 159, pp. 488-498. London: Taylor and Francis, March 1914. Lot 72

Lot 72

RUTHERFORD, Ernest, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson (1871-1937). “The Structure of the Atom.” In: The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, Sixth Series, Vol. 27, No. 159, pp. 488-498. London: Taylor and Francis, March 1914. FIRST EDITION.

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FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE PROTON. “The Rutherford atom (also called the Rutherford-Bohr atom)…is a linchpin in the history of modern physics. It also formed the theoretical basis for a necessary correction of the periodic table” (Simmons, The Scientific 100).