| Description | Cover of folder is labelled with name and address (King's College, Cambridge. Cavendish) and, in Blackett's hand but at a later date, 'Important. Disintegration'.
Numerous graphs and charts.
Notes titled 'Formation of 017', 'Energy change at collision', 'Energy change in terms of measured quantities', 'Note on mass defects', 'Transmutation Tracks'. Some of the notes are written on the verso of H Elliot's examination scripts.
Includes 3pp typescript (pp14-16 of a longer paper) 'The possibility that Oxygen disintegrates' with letter from George Gamow (10 June 1931, Copenhagen) commenting on the draft and disagreeing with Blackett's conclusions. the draft bears Gamow's annotations. |