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RUTHERFORD, Ernest (1871-1937). Radio-activity . Cambridge: University Press, 1904. 8 o (219 x 139 mm). Half-tone plate, text line illustrations. Original green diced cloth, gilt-lettered front cover and spine (slight rubbing to extremities). Provenance : William Thomson first baron Kelvin, (1824-1907), physicist (ink and pencil annotations, some initialled 'K', some noting date and place of writing). FIRST EDITION. Thomson, Lord Kelvin, was the primary author of the science of physics as it was known in 1900. Degrees Kelvin, in which absolute temperature are measured, are named after him. According to the DNB he "read again and again Mr. Ernest Rutherford's book on radioactivity, but objected ' in toto to the notion that the atom was capable of division by disintegration'." Dibner Heralds of Science 51, Grolier/Horblit 51; Norman 1871.