| Reference number | MS/929/1/165 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from Ernest Rutherford, FRS, 17 Wimslow Road, Withington, Manchester, to James Mackenzie Davidson |
| Date | 2 March 1909 |
| Description | Comments that there was no time to call on Mackenzie Davidson during his last trip to London, otherwise he would have been delighted to work together. Notes that they will be using every fracture of their supplies this week [radium], however, he will try and get some spare next week. Does not think it would be possible to make a thin glass spiral to let alpha rays through, though one could make one cosy enough to let beta rays through. |
| Extent | 3 sides |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Access status | Open |
| Administrative history | Sir Ernest Rutherford's (1871-1937) research established the nuclear structure of the atom and the essential nature of radioactive decay as a nuclear process. Rutherford was particularly interested in the decay families of thorium and radium |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8278 | Rutherford; Ernest (1871 - 1937); Baron Rutherford of Nelson | 1871 - 1937 |