Colloid chemistry, theoretical and applied: collected and edited by Jerome Alexander. Volume 6.1215 pages, illustrations, tables, diagrams, 15 × 23 cms.New York, Rein hold Publishing Corporation, 1946.Price $20.00

✍ Scribed by G.E. Pettengill

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1946
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 85 KB
• Volume: 242
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(46)90050-6

✦ Synopsis

Among the outstanding physics laboratories of the world is the Cavendish Laboratory in England at Cambridge University. The establishment of this laboratory was first recommended in 1869 and its financing was soon assured through the generosity of the 7th Duke of Devonshire, then Chancellor of the University, whose family name of Cavendish was also borne by the illustrious physicist of the eighteenth century Henry Cavendish. A professorship was established in 1871 and the building was formally opened in 1874.

James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Rayleigh, John Joseph Thomson, Lord Rutherford, and the present incumbent, Sir Lawrence Bragg, are the distinguished scholars who have held the Cavendish professorship. The research done at the laboratory reflects the calibre of its leaders and the assistants whom they have gathered around them. Vital wrork has been done here, especially on radioactivity and atomic research.

Physically a small book, this is a readable account of the development and contributions of this well-known laboratory.

G. E. PETTESGILL.