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Reference numberMS/929/1/134
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Alexander Muirhead, FRS, The Lodge, Shortlands, to James Mackenzie Davidson
Date27 July 1904
DescriptionApologises for having failed to return the tube of radium before now. Notes that he would like to borrow it again when Mackenzie Davidson returns as a standard for the calibration of the Wilson electrometer he has. Asks if Mackenzie Davidson has J. [Joseph] J. [John] Thomson's book 'Conduction of Electricity through gases' and [Ernest] Rutherford's on Radioactivity. Notes that Rutherford's is more useful than [Frederick] Soddy's. Suggests that when Mackenzie Davidson return they do some work together on radioactivity.
Extent3 sides
FormatManuscript
Access statusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA1682Muirhead; Alexander (1848 - 1920)1848 - 1920
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