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Rutherford, Ernest
Ein Vortrag von Lord Rutherford am Montag, dem 14. Dezember 1931, in Göttingen. Ein Satz von 8 privat herausgegebenen 74-U/min-Platten. (The Gramophone Company, 1938). Grün-bläuliches Kieselstein-Album mit Taschen für neun Platten. Auf dem Vorderdeckel ist das Logo des Markenzeichens der Gramophone Company vergoldet: Die Stimme seines Meisters. Zustand in Ordnung.
Außerordentlich seltene Sammlung von Aufzeichnungen einer Vorlesung, die der Nobelpreisträger Ernest Rutherford 1931 an der Universität Göttingen gehalten hat: eines von 25 bekannten Exemplaren. Eine dieser aufgezeichneten Vorlesungen, die 1938 als Plattensatz zur privaten Verteilung herausgegeben wurde, ist die Rede, die Sir Ernest Rutherford am 14. Dezember 1931 an der Georg- August- Universität in Göttingen gehalten hatte.
Exceedingly rare set of records of a lecture given by the Nobel Prize Winner, Ernest Rutherford in 1931 at Goettingen University: one of 25 copies known. Lectures by scientists are not often reproduced as spoken-word recordings for distribution. One such recorded lecture, issued as a set of discs for private distribution in 1938, is that of a speech given by Sir Ernest Rutherford on 14. December 1931 at Georg- August- Universität in Göttingen. In 1938 The Gramophone Company issued eight of the discs in an album with nine pockets to accomodate the disc. Number 3 of the discs had been previously produced by Telefunken and was allowed to be distributed by The Gramophone Company. The Telefunken disc is not present in most of the twenty-three preserved copies (5 copies have it, cit. Roland Smeltzer in 1997). Long before his lecture in Göttingen, Rutherford had become the doyen of twentieth-century experimental physicists. Rutherford was the central figure in the study of radioactivity, and with his concept of the nuclear atom he led the exploration of nuclear physics. He won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1908, was president of the Royal Society (1925-30) and the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1923). Members of Rutherford's research groups were responsible for numerous other important discoveries during the first half of the 20th century. Rutherford's lecture at Göttingen came near the end of Germany's golden age of modern physics, and Göttingen was among Germany's distinguished universities. In physics, research at Göttingen was led by James Franck, Max Born and Robert Pohl. From the research groups around these three men came, for example, the beginnings of modern quantum mechanics and solid state physics. Content of the discs: 1. Introduction of Lord Rutherford Honoris Causa by Max Born, maybe the only example of his voice. 2. Introductory remarks, 4. ß-ray spectra compared with y-rays shows Total Internal Conversion, leading to alpha-particles, 5. Long-range alpha-particles, 6. Connection of y-rays with long-range alpha-particles, 7. fine structure of alpha-ray groups, 8. Structure of nucleus, alpha-particles in nucleus, 9. Discussion. New discoveries quickly led to a more advanced understanding of nuclear structure and radioactivity. Within just a few months after the recorded lecture, major discoveries emerged from the work of colleagues of Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory: J. D. Cockcroft and E. T. S. Walton demonstrated the first nuclear disintegration with artificially accelerated particles and J. Chadwick discovered the Neutron, which had been predicted by Rutherford in 1920.- Lit.: Roland K. Smeltzer. in: ARSC Journal XXVIII, 1997 pp. 174 ff.