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Frederick Soddy (1877–1956)

Early Pioneer in Radiochemistry

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  • © 1986

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Editors:
  1. George B. Kauffman

    1. California State University, Fresno, USA

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Part of the book series: Chemists and Chemistry (CACH, volume 6)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
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  2. Selected Papers of Soddy’s

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Transmutation the Vital Problem of the Future

      • Frederick Soddy
      Pages 3-17

    3. Intra-Atomic Charge

      • Frederick Soddy
      Pages 19-21

    4. ‘Foreword’ To the Frustration of Science (1935)

      • Frederick Soddy
      Pages 23-24

  3. Background

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. The Suicidal Success of RadioChemistry

      • Lawrence Badash
      Pages 27-41

    3. Radioactivity and Its Nineteenth-Century Background

      • S. B. Sinclair
      Pages 43-53

  5. Reception of Soddy’s Works and Ideas

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. The Reception of Soddy’s Works in the U.S.S.R.

      • A. N. Krivomazov
      Pages 115-140

    3. Early Studies of Radioactivity and the Reception of Soddy’s Ideas in Japan

      • Minoru Tanaka, Kazuo Yamasaki
      Pages 141-154

  6. Chemistry Teaching and Commerce

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155
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    2. Soddy at Oxford

      • A. D. Cruickshank
      Pages 157-170

    3. Frederick Soddy and the Practical Significance of Radioactive Matter

      • Michael I. Freedman
      Pages 171-176
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About this book

On August 18, 1977 a special 'Soddy Session' was held at the Fifteenth International Congress of the History of Science, Edinburgh, Scotland, with Dr. Thaddeus J. Trenn as Symposium Chairman. This session was organized to commemorate the lOOth anniversary of the birth of Fre­ derick Soddy (born September 2, 1877, Eastbourne, England; died September 22, 1956, Brighton, England), who was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 'for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes'. Soddy taught and/or carried out research at Oxford University (where he was Lee's Professor of Chemistry), McGill University (where he and Sir Ernest Rutherford proposed the disintegration theory of radioactivity), University College, London (where he and Sir William Ramsay demonstrated natural transmuta­ tion), Glasgow University (where he formulated his displacement law and concept of isotopes), llnd Aberdeen University. In addition to his contributions to radiochemistry, he proposed a number of controversial economic, social, and political theories. The present volume contains the eight lectures presented at the symposium, two additional papers written especially for this volume (Kauffman, Chapter 4 and Krivomazov, Chapter 6), a paper on Soddy's economic thought (Daly, Chapter 11), and three selections from Soddy's works. Furthermore, an introductory account of Soddy's life and work by Thaddeus J. Trenn as well as a Soddy chronology, and name and subject indexes compiled by the editor are provided.

Editors and Affiliations

  • California State University, Fresno, USA

    George B. Kauffman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Frederick Soddy (1877–1956)

  • Book Subtitle: Early Pioneer in Radiochemistry

  • Editors: George B. Kauffman

  • Series Title: Chemists and Chemistry

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5297-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company 1986

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1926-3Published: 31 December 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8839-8Published: 01 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-5297-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVIII, 239

  • Topics: Physical Chemistry

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