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... Scientific Papers , 1800- 1900 Subject Index : Physics , Part i . , 289 Rutherford ( Prof. E. , F.R.S. ) , Radio - active Substances and their Radiations , Hon . R. J. Strutt , F.R.S. , 28 Sackur ( Prof. O. ) , Lehrbuch der Thermochemie ...
... Scientific Papers , 1800- 1900 Subject Index : Physics , Part i . , 289 Rutherford ( Prof. E. , F.R.S. ) , Radio - active Substances and their Radiations , Hon . R. J. Strutt , F.R.S. , 28 Sackur ( Prof. O. ) , Lehrbuch der Thermochemie ...
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... Scientific Papers , 1800-1900 : Subject Index , 289 ; Bakerian Lecture : Positive Rays , Sir J. J. Thomson , O.M. , F.R.S. , 362 Royal Society of Arts , H.M. the King and the , 300 Royal Society of South Africa , Annual Meeting , 228 ...
... Scientific Papers , 1800-1900 : Subject Index , 289 ; Bakerian Lecture : Positive Rays , Sir J. J. Thomson , O.M. , F.R.S. , 362 Royal Society of Arts , H.M. the King and the , 300 Royal Society of South Africa , Annual Meeting , 228 ...
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... SCIENTIFIC WORTHIES . XL . - SIR J. J. THOMSON , O.M. , F.R.S. is impossible to think of the rapid and pro- found evolution which occurred in the fundamental conceptions of natural philosophy during the final years of the past century ...
... SCIENTIFIC WORTHIES . XL . - SIR J. J. THOMSON , O.M. , F.R.S. is impossible to think of the rapid and pro- found evolution which occurred in the fundamental conceptions of natural philosophy during the final years of the past century ...
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... scientific preparation he possesses . In the concrete case it is evident that Thomson , from the com- mencement of his researches , was unconsciously preparing himself for the grand discovery of the true nature of the kathode rays . It ...
... scientific preparation he possesses . In the concrete case it is evident that Thomson , from the com- mencement of his researches , was unconsciously preparing himself for the grand discovery of the true nature of the kathode rays . It ...
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... scientific policy in favour in the Sudan . This , indeed , is the aspect of general public im- portance with which ethnologists and historians are most con- cerned . There is , of course , another point of view , which no doubt ...
... scientific policy in favour in the Sudan . This , indeed , is the aspect of general public im- portance with which ethnologists and historians are most con- cerned . There is , of course , another point of view , which no doubt ...
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