Research Catalog

Title

Electrons (+ and - ), protons, photons, neutrons, mesotrons, and cosmic rays.

Author

Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953.

Publication

Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago Press [1947]

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Details

Additional Authors

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967

Description

x, 642 p. illus., plates, diagrs.; 19 cm.

Subject

• Electrons
• Atoms
• Protons
• Neutrons
• Cosmic rays
• Particles (Nuclear physics)
• Electrons
• Protons
• Neutrons
• Cosmic Radiation
• Elementary Particles
• particle physics
• Atoms
• Cosmic rays

Note

• "Published January 1935; second edition January 1947."

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical foot-notes.

Provenance (note)

• Presentation copy to J. Robert Oppenheimer with inscription by the author.

Contents

Early views of electricity -- The extension of the electrolytic laws to conduction in gases -- Early attempts at the direct determination of e -- General proof of the atomic nature of electricity -- The exact evaluation of e -- The mechanism of ionization of gases by X-rays and radium rays -- Brownian movements in gases -- Is the electron itself divisible? -- The structure of the atom -- The nature of radiant energy -- Waves and particles -- The spinning electron -- The discovery of the cosmic rays -- The direct measurement of the energy of cosmic rays and the discovery of the free positive electron -- The neutron and the transmutation of the elements -- The release and utilization of nuclear energy -- Geomagnetic studies in cosmic rays at low altitudes, 1920-36 -- The mesotron -- The nature and number of the incoming primary rays -- The atom-annihilation hypothesis as to the origin of the cosmic rays -- ne from mobilities and diffusion coefficients -- Townsend’s first attempt at a determination of e -- The Brownian-movement equation -- The inertia or mass of an electrical charge on a sphere of radius a -- Molecular cross-section and mean free path -- Number of free positive electrons in the nucleus of an atom by Rutherford’s method -- Bohr’s theoretical derivation of the change in the wave-length of ether-waves because of scattering by free electrons -- The elements, their atomic numbers, atomic weights, and chemical positions -- Physical constants.

LCCN

47001983

OCLC

• ocm01099845
• 1099845
• SCSB-289499

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library