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RefNoPB/2/1/3
Previous numbersB.3
LevelItem
TitleGreen notebook labelled on cover 'B' and on first page 'Book B. 1921-22 Catalogue of alpha-ray photographs November 1921. P.M.S Blackett, Magdalene College. If found please return to above address'.
Date1921-1922
DescriptionThe first few pages of the notebook 9pages are not numbered) contain record of 28 photographs. This is followed by a 'Catalogue of interesting tracks, etc.' (6pp) and 'notes on general appearance of films (4pp).

The notebook then contains a 139pp series of detailed analyses of photographs. This is a catalogue of Blackett's first research at the Cavendish under Rutherford. See Bernard Lovell, P.M.S. Blackett: A Biographical Memoir, Royal Society: 1976, pp6-7, which describes Blackett's modifications to the apparatus and two series of experiments. The record of experiments with a mixture of 75% argon + 15% notrogen ends on p75. On pp 9-10 there are calculations in Rutherford's hand.
Extent1 notebook
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialPublished as 'On the analysis of alpha-ray photographs', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, A, 102, 294.
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