Physical sciences /
Physical sciences /
edited by Sir William Lawrence Bragg and George Porter.
- 11 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- The Royal Institution library of science .
- Royal Institution library of science. .
Includes Index volume
Magnetic characters and relations of oxygen and nitrogen / Connexion of chemical forces with the polarization of light / Atmospheric magnetism / Recent experiment showing the rotation of the earth by means of the pendulum / Suggestions for the dynamics of chemistry derived from the theory of etherification / Schonbein's ozone / Lines of magnetic force / Heating effects of electricity and magnetism / Three important chemical discoveries from the Exhibition of 1851 / Analogies of light and heat / Etudes sur les Corps a l'etat speroidal / Allotropic changes of certain elements / Physical lines of magnetic force / Magnetic force / Gerhardt's discovery of anhydrous organic acids / Influence of material aggregation upon the manifestations of force / Change of refrangibility of light, and the Exhibition thereby of the Chemical Rays / Formation of hydrogen and its homologues / M. Bussingault, Fremy, Becquerel and C. on Oxygen / Electric induction, associated cases of current and static effects / Vibration and tones produced by the contacts of bodies having different temperatures / Transmission of electricity by flame and gases / Certain phenomena of rotatory motion / Construction of the compound achromatic microscope / Chemical affinity among substances in solution / Some phenomena connected with the motion of liquids / Melting points / Dependence of the chemical properties of compounds upon the electrical character of their constituents / Magnetic hypotheses / Some points of magnetic philosophy / Nature of the force by which bodies are repelled from the poles of a magnet / Constitution of the hydro carbons / So called catalytic action and combustion; and theories of catalysis / Electric conduction / Currents of the Leyden battery / Ruhmkorff's Induction Apparatus / Inferences from the negation of perpetual motion / Disposition of force in paramagnetic and diamagnetic bodies / Certain magnetic actions and affections / Origin and transformation of motive power / Measurement of the chemical action of light / Chemical type of ammonia / M. Petitjean's process for silvering glass; and some observations on divided gold / Chromatic phenomena exhibited by transmitted light / Conservation of force / M. Chevreul's laws of colours / M. Lissajous' acoustic experiments / Relations of gold to light / Some physical properties of ice / Molecular impressions by light and electricity / Static inductions / Production of organic bodies without the agency of vitality / Electrical discharge, and its stratified appearance in rarefied media / Schonbein's ozone and antozone / Magnesium, calcium, lithium, and their congeners / New method of rendering visible to the eye some of the more abstruse problems of crystallography / Insight hitherto obtained into the nature of the crystal molecule by the instrumentality of light / Transmission of heat through gases / Phosphorescence, fluorescence, etc. / Influence of the magnetic force upon the electric discharge / Measurement of the chemical action of the solar rays / Acids and salts / Atmospheric electricity / Action of gases and vapours upon radiant heat / Platinum / Bunsen and Kirschhoff's spectrum observations / Some phenomena attending combusion in rarefied air / Electrical quantity and intensity within "Elect Group" / Application of the law of the conservation of force to organic nature / Physical basis of solar chemistry / Absorption and radiation of heat by gaseus matter / Mr. Graham's researches on dialysis / Mauve and magenta, and the colouring matters derived from coal / Force / Radiation through the earth's atmosphere / Photographic transparency of bodies and on the photographic spectra of the elementary bodies / Forces concerned in producing magnetic disturbances / Discovery of the metal Thallium / Molecule of water / Direct measurement of the sun's chemical action / Account of some researches on radiant heat / Boiling water / Synthesis of organic bodies / Discrimination of organic bodies by their optical properties / Contributions to molecular physics / Classification of the elements in relation to their atomicities / Metal Indium and recent discoveries in spectrum analysis / Recent chemical researches in the Royal Institution / Magnetic experiment / Combustion by invisible rays / Aluminium Ethide and Methide / Combining power of atoms / Magenta and its derivative colours / Researches in organic chemistry in the Royal Institution / M. Faraday -- N.S. Maskelyne -- M. Faraday -- Baden Powell -- Alexander Williamson -- M. Faraday -- M. Faraday -- (1852) W.R. Grove -- Lyon Playfair -- Baden Powell -- M.P.H. Boutigny (D'Evreum) -- B.C. Brodie -- M. Faraday -- (1853) M. Faraday -- A. Williamson -- John Tyndall -- C.G. Stokes -- B.C. Brodie -- M. Faraday -- (1854) M. Faraday -- M. Tyndall -- W.R. Grove -- Baden Powell -- Charles Brooke -- John Hall Gladstone -- J. Tyndall -- B.C. Brodie -- E. Frankland -- M. Faraday -- (1855) M. Faraday -- J. Tyndall -- William Odling -- John Eyre Ashby -- M. Faraday -- J. Tyndall -- (1856) M. Faraday -- W.R. Grove -- J. Tyndall -- M. Faraday -- Wm. Thomson -- Henry E. Roscoe -- A.W. Hofman -- M. Faraday -- (1857) J.H. Gladstone -- M. Faraday -- F. Crace Calvert -- J. Tyndall -- M. Faraday -- (1858) J. Tyndall -- W.R. Grove -- M. Faraday -- (1859) E. Frankland -- W.R. Grove -- M. Faraday -- William Odling -- Walter Mitchell -- N.S. Maskelyne -- J. Tyndall -- M. Faraday -- (1860) J. Tyndall -- H.E. Roscoe -- William Odling -- (1861) W. Thomson -- J. Tyndall -- M. Faraday -- H.E. Roscoe -- E. Frankland -- Latimer Clarke -- H. Helmholtz -- J. Tyndall -- (1862) J. Tyndall -- William Odling -- A.W. Hofmann -- J. Tyndall -- (1863) J. Tyndall -- Wm. Allen Miller -- Balfour Stewart -- William Crookes -- William Odling -- H.E. Roscoe -- J. Tyndall -- (1864) W.R. Grove -- J. Alfred Wanklyn -- W.G. Stokes -- J. Tyndall -- Alexander W. Williamson -- H.E. Roscoe -- E. Frankland -- J. Tyndall -- (1865) J. Tyndall -- William Odling -- A.W. Hofmann -- Frederick Field -- E. Frankland. Volume 1. (1851) Radiation and absorption, with reference to the colour of bodies, and their state of aggregation / Existence of a material medium pervading space / Opalescence of the atmosphere / Experiments on the vibrations of strings / Sounding and sensitive flames / Mr. Graham's recent discoveries on the diffusion of gases / Occlusion of gases by metals / Faraday as a discoverer / Vanadium, one of the Trivalent Group of elements / Rate at which chemical actions take place / Some new experiments on light / Artificial formation of organic substances / Some effects of the heat of the oxyhydrogen flame / Source of light in luminous flames / Chemical rays, and the light of the sky / Chemical constitution and its relation to physical and physiological properties / Newest colouring matters / Simplest organic compounds / Professor Graham's scientific work / Artificial production of Alizarine, the colouring principle of Madder / Ammonia compounds of Platinum -- Colour of water, and on the scattering of light in water and in air / Improvements in the manufacture of Chlorine / Some experiments on successive polarization of light made by Sir C. Wheatstone / Rumford's scientific discoveries / Revised theory of Phlogiston / Sea Waves / Gaseous and liquid states of matter / Dust and smoke / Last new metal, Indium / Identity of light and radiant heat / Crystallization of silver, gold, and other metals / Measuring temperatures by electricity / Sulphurous impurity in coal gas / Optical phenomena produced by crystals submitted to circularly polarized light / History of ozone / Action at a distance / Alcohols from flint and quartz / Spectra of polarized light / Evaporation and diffusion / Combinations of colour by means of polarized light / Sea Waves / Acoustic reversibility / Dissipation of energy / Action of heat on coloured liquids / New determinations of the velocity of light / Copper-zinc couple and its effects; Notes of Professor Gladstone's fifth lecture on chemical force -- (1876) Mechanical action of light / Action of light on Selenium / Paraffins and their alcohols / Methods of chemical decomposition as illustrated by water / Recent discoveries about Vanadium / Vortex motion / Solid water / Matter and ether / Influence of chemical constitution on the refraction of light / Experiments with a great induction coil / J. Tyndall -- Balfour Stewart -- H.E. Roscoe -- J. Tyndall -- (1867) J. Tyndall -- William Odling -- William Odling -- (1868) J. Tyndall -- Mr. H.E. Roscoe -- A. Vernon Harcourt -- J.H. Gladstone -- C.G. Williams -- William Odling -- E. Frankland -- (1869) J. Tyndall -- A. Crum Brown -- W.H. Perkin -- William Odling -- (1870) William Odling -- H.E. Roscoe -- William Odling -- (1871) J. Tyndall -- William Odling -- W. Spottiswoode -- W. Mattieu Williams -- William Odling -- W.J. Macquorn Rankine -- T. Andrews -- J. Tyndall -- (1872) William Odling -- J. Tyndall -- John Hall Gladstone -- C.W. Siemens -- A. Vernon Harcourt -- W. Spottiswoode -- William Odling -- (1873) J. Clerk Maxwell -- Emerson Reynolds -- W. Spottiswoode -- William Odling -- (1874) W. Spottiswoode -- Charles Watkins Merrifield -- (1875) J. Tyndall -- Lord Rayleigh -- Walter Noel Hartley -- A. Cornu -- W. Crookes -- C. William Siemens -- William Odling -- J.H. Gladstone -- H.E. Roscoe -- (1877) Osborne Reynolds -- Frederick Guthrie -- John Fletcher Moulton -- J.H. Gladstone -- W. Spottiswoode. Volume 2. (1866) Explanation of certain acoustical phenomena / Experiments in electro-photometry / Nocturne in black and yellow / Effects of stress on the magnetism of Iron, Cobalt, and Nickel / Liquefaction of gases / New Chemical Industry, established by M. Camille Vincent / Sorting demon of Maxwell / Molecular physics in high vacua / Optical study of the elasticity of solid bodies / Spectroscopic investigation / Investigations at high temperatures / Phenomena of the electric discharge with 14,400 Chloride of Silver cells / Teachings of modern spectroscopy / Elasticity viewed as possibly a mode of motion / Selenium and its applications to the Photophone and Telephotography / Conversion of radiant heat into sound / Indigo, and its artificial production / Origin and identity of spectra / Spectrum analysis in the infra red of the spectrum / Matter and magneto-electric action / Size of atoms / Ultra-violet spectra of the elements / Thoughts on radiation, theoretical and practical / Theory of magnetism / Two manners of motion of water / Volta-electric and magneto-electric induction / Researches on liquefied gases / Liquid films / Capillary attraction / Experiments showing Dilatancy, a property of Granular Material, possibly connected with Gravitation / On recent progress in the coal-tar industry / On dissociation temperatures with special reference to pyrotechnical questions / Suspended crystallisation / Genesis of the elements / Sunlight colours / On the colours of thin plates / Light as a analytic agent / Rolling contact of bodies / Diffraction of sound / Electrical influence machines / Phosphorescence and ozone / Electrostatic measurement / Electrical stress / Discharge of a Leyden Jar / Iridescent crystals / Aluminum / Optical properties of oxygen and ozone / Optical torque / Attempt to apply to chemistry one of the principles of Newton's Natural Philosophy / Quartz fibres / Lord Rayleigh -- James Dewar -- W. Spottiswoode -- Sir William Thomson -- James Dewar -- (1879) H.E. Roscoe -- Sir William Thomson -- William Crookes -- A. Cornu -- James Dewar -- (1880) James Dewar -- (1881) Warren De La Rue -- Arthur Schuster -- Sir William Thomson -- Shelford Bidwell -- J. Tyndall -- H.E. Roscoe -- James Dewar -- (1882) Captain W. de W. Abney -- W. Spottiswoode -- (1883) Sir William Thomson -- George D. Liveing -- J. Tyndall -- (1884) D.E. Hughes -- Osborne Reynolds -- Willoughby Smith -- James Dewar -- (1885) A.W. Rucker -- (1886) Sir William Thomson -- Osborne Reynolds -- Sir Henry E. Roscoe -- Frederick Siemens -- John Millar Thomson -- (1887) William Crookes -- Captain W. de W. Abney -- Lord Rayleigh -- James Dewar -- H.S. Hele Shaw -- (1888) Lord Rayleigh -- James Wimshurst -- James Dewar -- (1889) Sir William Thomson -- A.W. Rucker -- Oliver Lodge -- Lord Rayleigh -- Sir Henry Roscoe -- James Dewar -- Silvanus P. Thompson -- D. Mendeleeff -- C.V. Boys. Volume 3. (1878) Scientific work of Joule / Magnetic phenomena / Glow of Phosphorus / Electromagnetic radiation / Foam / Photographic image / Rejuvenescence of crystals / Some applications of photography / Electro-magnetic repulsion / Electric and magnetic screening / Liquids and gases / Crystallisation / Molecular process in magnetic induction / Rate of explosions in gases / Faraday centenary: H.R.H. / Alternate currents of high potential and high frequency / Optical projection / Motion of the Ether near the Earth / Metallic Carbonyls / Magnetic properties of liquid oxygen / Liquid atmospheric air / Turacin, a remarkable animal pigment containing Copper / Interference bands and their applications / Study of fluid motion by means of coloured bands / Scientific uses of liquid air / Scientific work of Tyndall / Electric discharge through gases / Splash of a drop and allied phenomena / Work of Hertz / Newtonian constant of gravitation / Phosphorescence and photographic action at the temperature of boiling liquid air / Physical work of von Helmholtz / Effects of electric currents in Iron on its Magnetisation / Absolute measurement of electrical resistance / More about Argon / New researches on liquid air / Colour photography / Electric shadows and luminescence / Hysteresis / Electric and magnetic research at low temperatures / James Dewar -- Shelford Bidwell -- T.E. Thorpe -- G.F. Fitz Gerald -- Lord Rayleigh -- Raphael Meldoza -- (1891) John W. Judd -- Lord Rayleigh -- J.A. Fleming -- Sir William Thomson -- W. Ramsey -- G.D. Liveing -- J.A. Ewing -- Harold B. Dixon -- The Prince of Wales and James Dewar -- (1892) Nikola Tesla -- Sir David Salomons -- Oliver Lodge -- Ludwig Mond -- James Dewar -- (1893) James Dewar -- A.H. Church -- Lord Rayleigh -- Osborne Reynolds -- (1894) James Dewar -- Lord Rayleigh -- J.J. Thomson -- A.M. Worthington -- Oliver Lodge -- C. Vernon Boys -- (1895) James Dewar -- A.W. Rucker -- John Hopkinson -- J. Viriamu Jones -- (1896) Lord Rayleigh -- James Dewar G. Lippmann -- Silvanus P. Thompson -- J.A. Ewing -- J.A. Fleming. Volume 4. (1890) Properties of liquid oxygen / Electro-magnetic radiation and the polarisation of the electric ray / Source of light in flames / Cathode rays / Contact electricity of metals / Le Fluor / Theory of colour vision applied to modern colour photography / Some new studies in cathode and rontgen radiations / Some recent results of physico-chemical injury / Liquid air as an analytic agent / Magneto-optic rotation and its explanation by a gyrostatic medium / Recent experiments on certain of the chemical elements in relation to heat / Some experiments with the telephone / Liquid hydrogen / Motion of a perfect liquid / Coherers / Measuring extreme temperatures / Transparency and opacity / Pictures produced on photographic plates in the dark / Magnetic perturbations of the spectral lines / Commemoration lectures / Flight / Recent studies in gravitation / Solid hydrogen / Nineteenth century clouds over the Dynamical Theory of heat and light / Gases at the beginning and end of the century / Electric waves / Some recent work of diffusion / Polish / Existence of bodies smaller than atoms / Response of inorganic matter to mechanical and electrical stimulus / Aims of the National Physical Laboratory / Low temperature research at the Royal Institution, 1983-1900 / Interference of sound / Ions of electrolysis / Musical and talking electric arcs / Sur la Radio-activite de la Matiere / Recent developments in colouring-matters / Experimental researches on the constitution of crystals / Electronic theory of electricity / James Dewar -- Jagadis Chunder Bose -- Arthur Smithells -- J.J. Thomson -- Lord Kelvin -- Henri Moissan -- (1898) Captain Abney -- Alan A. Campbell Swinton -- T.E. Thorpe -- James Dewar -- Andrew Gray -- W.A. Tilden -- Lord Rayleigh -- (1899) James Dewar -- H.S. Hele-Shaw -- Oliver Lodge -- H.L. Callendar -- Lord Rayleigh -- William James Russell -- Thomas Preston -- Lord Rayleigh, James Crichton Browne and James Dewar -- (1900) Lord Rayleigh -- John H. Poynting -- James Dewar -- Lord Kelvin -- (1901) James Dewar -- Gerald Molloy -- Horace T. Brown -- Lord Rayleigh -- J.J. Thomson -- Jagadis Chunder Bose -- Richard T. Glazebrook -- Agnes M. Clerke -- (1902) Lord Rayleigh -- A. Crum Brown -- W. Duddell -- H. Becquerel -- Otto N. Witt -- A.E. Tutton -- J.A. Fleming. Volume 5. (1897) Low temperature investigations / Perfumes, natural and artificial / Drops and surface tension / Some recent investigations on electrical conduction / Recent advances in Stereochemistry / Le Radium / Shadows / Condensation nuclei / Motion of viscous substances / Liquid Hydrogen Calorimetry / Development of the theory of electrolytic dissociation / New low temperature phenomena / High power microscopy / Structure of the atom / Pressure due to radiation / Development of Spectro-Chemistry / Some applications of the Theory of Electric Discharge to Spectroscopy / Electric production of Nitrates from the atmosphere / Passage of electricity through liquids / Recent progress in Magneto-Optics / Studies on charcoal and liquid air / Rays of positive electricity / Studies in High Vacua and Helium at low temperatures / Centenary of Davy's Discovery of the Metals of the Alkalis / Recent researches in Radio-activity / Ether of space / Explosive combustion, with special reference to that of Hydrocarbons / Carriers of positive electricity / Scientific work of William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) / Nadir of temperature and allied problems / Low temperature research at the Royal Institution 1900-1907 / James Dewar -- Adolf Liebmann -- Lord Rayleigh -- R.J. Strutt -- William J. Pope -- Pierre Curie -- (1904) Lord Rayleigh -- C.T.R. Wilson -- Frederick T. Trouton -- James Dewar -- Svante Arrhenius -- (1905) James Dewar -- John W. Gordon -- J.J. Thomson -- Ernest Fox Nichols -- Julius Wilhelm Bruhl -- (1906) J.J. Thomson -- Silvanus P. Thompson -- W.C. Dampier Whetham -- P. Zeeman -- James Dewar -- (1907) J.J. Thomson -- James Dewar -- (1908) T.E. Thorpe -- Ernest Rutherford -- Oliver Lodge -- William Arthur Bone -- J.J. Thomson -- Joseph Larmor -- James Dewar -- Henry E. Armstrong. Volume 6. (1903) Electrical properties of flame / Osmotic phenomena and their modern physical interpretation / Experiments at high temperatures and pressures / Electrical striations / Tantalum and its industrial applications / Recent advances in our knowledge of Silicon and of its relations to organised structures / Problems of Helium and Radium / Light reactions at low temperatures / Colours of sea and sky / Ionisation of gases and chemical change / Dynamics of a golf ball / Chemical significance of Crystal Structure / Chemical and physical change at low temperature / Radioactivity as a Kinetic Theory of a Fourth State of Matter / Mouvement Brownien et Grandeurs Moleculaires / New Method of chemical analysis / New organic compounds of Nitrogen / Recent experiments with invisible light / Heat problems / Very high temperatures / Some further applications of the method of positive rays / Active Nitrogen / Photography of the paths of particles ejected from atoms / Great advance in Crystallography / Spectroscope in organic chemistry / Applications of polarized light / Coming of age of the "Vacuum Flask" / Production of Neon and Helium by the electric discharge / Surface combustion / Fluid motions / X-rays and Crystalline Structure / Problems of Hydrogen and the Rare Gases / Experiments on Slow Cathode Rays / Electrons and heat / Radiations from exploding atoms / Harold Albert Wilson -- H.L. Callendar -- Richard Threlfall -- J.J. Thomson -- Alexander Siemens -- J. Emerson Reynolds -- James Dewar -- (1910) James Dewar -- Lord Rayleigh -- H. Brereton Baker -- J.J. Thomson -- William J. Pope -- (1911) James Dewar -- William H. Bragg -- Jean Perrin -- J.J. Thomson -- Martin O. Forster -- R.W. Wood -- (1912) James Dewar -- John Allen Duddell -- (1913) J.J. Thomson -- R.J. Strutt -- C.T.R. Wilson -- A.E.H. Tutton -- James J. Dobbie -- Thomas Martin Lowry -- (1914) James Dewar -- J. Norman Collie -- W.A. Bone -- Lord Rayleigh -- William H. Bragg -- (1915) James Dewar -- J.J. Thomson -- O.W. Richardson -- Ernest Rutherford. Volume 7. (1909) Problems in Capillarity / Mechanism of chemical change in living organisms / Spectra of Hydrogen and Helium / Genesis and absorption of X-rays / X-rays, atomic structure, electromagnetic radiation / Soap bubbles of long duration / Recent developments of molecular physics / Radioactive Haloes / Complexity of the chemical elements / Studies of liquid films / Motions of Ions in Gases / Gravitation and the Principle of Relativity / Vibrations: Mechanical, musical and electrical / Ether and matter: Being remarks on Inertia, and on Radiation, and on the possible structure of atoms / Energy distribution in Spectra / Atomic projectiles and their collisions with light atoms / Low temperature studies / Researches at high pressures and temperatures / Blue sky and the optical properties of air / Crystal structure / Isotopes and atomic weights / Electrosynthesis in organic chemistry / Elasticity / Absolute measurements of sound / Problems in the variability of Spectra / Vitamin problems / Structure of organic crystals / Soap films as detectors: Stream lines and sound / Origins of the conception of Isotopes / Gaseous combustion at high pressures: new experiments / Some new effects of alternating magnetism / Radiation of light / Life history of an Alpha Particle from Radium / James Dewar -- W.M. Bayliss -- A. Fowler -- J.J. Thomson -- C.G. Barkla -- (1917) James Dewar -- J.H. Jeans -- John Joly -- Frederick Soddy -- (1918) James Dewar -- John S. Townsend -- A.S. Eddington -- Edwin H. Barton -- (1919) Oliver J. Lodge -- John W. Nicholson -- Ernest Rutherford -- (1920) James Dewar -- Charles Parsons -- Lord Rayleigh -- W. Lawrence Bragg -- (1921) F.W. Aston -- James Walker -- A. Mallock -- Arthur Gordon Webster -- (1922) Thomas R. Merton -- Arthur Harden -- Sir William Bragg -- (1923) James Dewar -- Frederick Soddy -- William A. Bone -- W.M. Mordey -- Hendrik Antoon Lorentz -- Ernest Rutherford. Volume 8. (1916) Recent research on Crystalline Structure / Scattering of X-Rays / Nucleus of the atom / Colours, stains, and dyes / Glow of Phosphorus / Investigation of the properties of thin films by means of X-Rays / Sugars from the standpoint of the organic chemist / Soaps and the Theory of Colloids / Studies of Atomic Nuclei / Crystalline Structure of inorganic salts / Recent developments in the Theory of Magnetism / Faraday as a chemist / Films / Chemistry of red and blue colouring matters of flowers / Luminous discharge through Rare Gases / Tyndall's experiments of Magne-Crystallic Action / Some colouring agents in glasses and glazes / Rigidity and other anomalies in Colloidal Solutions / Photo-electricity / Photosynthesis / Quantum and relativity theories of light / Waves of an electron / Further progress in Crystal analysis / Chemiluminescence / Infra-Red Spectra / Air-pump, past and present / Cellulose in the Light of the X-Rays / Iridescent colour in nature / Transmutation of matter / Scattering of light / Ultrasonics: Some properties of inaudible sound / Sound, sand and smoke: New Light on old problems / Helium and its properties / Experimental aspects of Hydrogen Ion Concentration / X-ray investigation of the structure of liquids / Oil and petrol from coal / Optics of electrons / Uncertainty Principle in modern physics / Michael Faraday and electro-chemistry / Recent researches on the Gamma Rays / Electrical conductivity of metals at the lowest temperatures / Crystals of the living body / Photographic analysis of explosion flames / Recent researches on transmutation of the elements / Shapes of molecules / Liquid crystals / Sir William Bragg -- Sir William Bragg -- Sir Ernest Rutherford -- Jocelyn Field Thorpe -- Lord Rayleigh -- (1925) Sir William Bragg -- Sir James C. Irvine -- J.W. McBain -- Sir Ernest Rutherford -- W.L. Bragg -- Charles G. Darwin -- Sir William J. Pope -- (1926) Sir William B. Hardy -- Robert Robinson -- Richard Whiddington -- (1927) Sir William Bragg -- Sir Herbert Jackson -- Emil Hatschek -- (1928) Sir William Bragg -- E.C.C. Baly -- Edmund T. Whittaker -- George P. Thomson -- (1929) Sir William Bragg -- Eric K. Rideal -- Sir Robert Robertson -- E.N. Da C. Andrade -- (1930) Sir William Bragg -- Lord Rayleigh -- Sir Ernest Rutherford -- (1931) Sir William Bragg -- F. Lloyd Hopwood -- E.N. Da C. Andrade -- Lord Rutherford of Nelson -- J.C. Philip -- Sir William Bragg -- C.H. Lander -- G.P. Thomson -- (1932) C.G. Darwin -- Brig. General Sir Harold Hartley -- Lord Rutherford of Nelson -- J.C. M'Lennan -- (1933) Sir William Bragg -- W.A. Bone -- Lord Rutherford Nelson -- N.V. Sidgwick -- Sir William Bragg. Volume 9. (1924) Surface tension / New Hydrogen / Cosmic radiation / Elements and isotopes / Heavy water in chemistry / Approach to the Absolute Zero of Temperature / Some experiments in gravitation and magnetism / Neutron and radioactive transformations / Synthesis of a natural colouring matter / Sensitising dyes and their application to scientific photography / Electric properties of crystals (I) / Structures and forces in colloidal systems / Electric properties of crystals (II) / Whirlpools and vortices / Optical contact / Recent crystallography / Pigments associated with the fatty tissues of plants and animals / Electron diffraction and surface structure / Transmutation of heavy elements / Synthesis of large molecules / Clay / Science and the unobservable / Iodine / Ice / Nature of chemical reactivity / Combination tones in sound and light / Properties and structure of protein films / Structure of proteins / Liquid films / Magnets / New phenomena in liquid Helium / Allan Ferguson -- Lord Rutherford of Nelson -- P.M.S. Blackett -- F.W. Aston -- M. Polanyi -- (1935) F. Simon -- A.O. Rankine -- Lord Rutherford of Nelson -- Robert Robinson -- (1936) C.E.K. Mees -- Sir William Bragg -- H. Freundlich -- Sir William Bragg -- E.N. da C. Andrade -- Lord Rayleigh -- (1937) Sir William Bragg -- I.M. Heilbron -- G.I. Finch -- Lord Rutherford of Nelson -- H. Mark -- Sir William Bragg -- H. Dingle -- Irvine Masson -- (1938) Sir William Bragg -- H.W. Melville -- Sir William Bragg -- Irving Langmuir -- (1939) J.D. Bernal -- Sir William Bragg -- W.L. Bragg -- J.D. Cockcroft. Volume 10. (1934)
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Magnetic characters and relations of oxygen and nitrogen / Connexion of chemical forces with the polarization of light / Atmospheric magnetism / Recent experiment showing the rotation of the earth by means of the pendulum / Suggestions for the dynamics of chemistry derived from the theory of etherification / Schonbein's ozone / Lines of magnetic force / Heating effects of electricity and magnetism / Three important chemical discoveries from the Exhibition of 1851 / Analogies of light and heat / Etudes sur les Corps a l'etat speroidal / Allotropic changes of certain elements / Physical lines of magnetic force / Magnetic force / Gerhardt's discovery of anhydrous organic acids / Influence of material aggregation upon the manifestations of force / Change of refrangibility of light, and the Exhibition thereby of the Chemical Rays / Formation of hydrogen and its homologues / M. Bussingault, Fremy, Becquerel and C. on Oxygen / Electric induction, associated cases of current and static effects / Vibration and tones produced by the contacts of bodies having different temperatures / Transmission of electricity by flame and gases / Certain phenomena of rotatory motion / Construction of the compound achromatic microscope / Chemical affinity among substances in solution / Some phenomena connected with the motion of liquids / Melting points / Dependence of the chemical properties of compounds upon the electrical character of their constituents / Magnetic hypotheses / Some points of magnetic philosophy / Nature of the force by which bodies are repelled from the poles of a magnet / Constitution of the hydro carbons / So called catalytic action and combustion; and theories of catalysis / Electric conduction / Currents of the Leyden battery / Ruhmkorff's Induction Apparatus / Inferences from the negation of perpetual motion / Disposition of force in paramagnetic and diamagnetic bodies / Certain magnetic actions and affections / Origin and transformation of motive power / Measurement of the chemical action of light / Chemical type of ammonia / M. Petitjean's process for silvering glass; and some observations on divided gold / Chromatic phenomena exhibited by transmitted light / Conservation of force / M. Chevreul's laws of colours / M. Lissajous' acoustic experiments / Relations of gold to light / Some physical properties of ice / Molecular impressions by light and electricity / Static inductions / Production of organic bodies without the agency of vitality / Electrical discharge, and its stratified appearance in rarefied media / Schonbein's ozone and antozone / Magnesium, calcium, lithium, and their congeners / New method of rendering visible to the eye some of the more abstruse problems of crystallography / Insight hitherto obtained into the nature of the crystal molecule by the instrumentality of light / Transmission of heat through gases / Phosphorescence, fluorescence, etc. / Influence of the magnetic force upon the electric discharge / Measurement of the chemical action of the solar rays / Acids and salts / Atmospheric electricity / Action of gases and vapours upon radiant heat / Platinum / Bunsen and Kirschhoff's spectrum observations / Some phenomena attending combusion in rarefied air / Electrical quantity and intensity within "Elect Group" / Application of the law of the conservation of force to organic nature / Physical basis of solar chemistry / Absorption and radiation of heat by gaseus matter / Mr. Graham's researches on dialysis / Mauve and magenta, and the colouring matters derived from coal / Force / Radiation through the earth's atmosphere / Photographic transparency of bodies and on the photographic spectra of the elementary bodies / Forces concerned in producing magnetic disturbances / Discovery of the metal Thallium / Molecule of water / Direct measurement of the sun's chemical action / Account of some researches on radiant heat / Boiling water / Synthesis of organic bodies / Discrimination of organic bodies by their optical properties / Contributions to molecular physics / Classification of the elements in relation to their atomicities / Metal Indium and recent discoveries in spectrum analysis / Recent chemical researches in the Royal Institution / Magnetic experiment / Combustion by invisible rays / Aluminium Ethide and Methide / Combining power of atoms / Magenta and its derivative colours / Researches in organic chemistry in the Royal Institution / M. Faraday -- N.S. Maskelyne -- M. Faraday -- Baden Powell -- Alexander Williamson -- M. Faraday -- M. Faraday -- (1852) W.R. Grove -- Lyon Playfair -- Baden Powell -- M.P.H. Boutigny (D'Evreum) -- B.C. Brodie -- M. Faraday -- (1853) M. Faraday -- A. Williamson -- John Tyndall -- C.G. Stokes -- B.C. Brodie -- M. Faraday -- (1854) M. Faraday -- M. Tyndall -- W.R. Grove -- Baden Powell -- Charles Brooke -- John Hall Gladstone -- J. Tyndall -- B.C. Brodie -- E. Frankland -- M. Faraday -- (1855) M. Faraday -- J. Tyndall -- William Odling -- John Eyre Ashby -- M. Faraday -- J. Tyndall -- (1856) M. Faraday -- W.R. Grove -- J. Tyndall -- M. Faraday -- Wm. Thomson -- Henry E. Roscoe -- A.W. Hofman -- M. Faraday -- (1857) J.H. Gladstone -- M. Faraday -- F. Crace Calvert -- J. Tyndall -- M. Faraday -- (1858) J. Tyndall -- W.R. Grove -- M. Faraday -- (1859) E. Frankland -- W.R. Grove -- M. Faraday -- William Odling -- Walter Mitchell -- N.S. Maskelyne -- J. Tyndall -- M. Faraday -- (1860) J. Tyndall -- H.E. Roscoe -- William Odling -- (1861) W. Thomson -- J. Tyndall -- M. Faraday -- H.E. Roscoe -- E. Frankland -- Latimer Clarke -- H. Helmholtz -- J. Tyndall -- (1862) J. Tyndall -- William Odling -- A.W. Hofmann -- J. Tyndall -- (1863) J. Tyndall -- Wm. Allen Miller -- Balfour Stewart -- William Crookes -- William Odling -- H.E. Roscoe -- J. Tyndall -- (1864) W.R. Grove -- J. Alfred Wanklyn -- W.G. Stokes -- J. Tyndall -- Alexander W. Williamson -- H.E. Roscoe -- E. Frankland -- J. Tyndall -- (1865) J. Tyndall -- William Odling -- A.W. Hofmann -- Frederick Field -- E. Frankland. Volume 1. (1851) Radiation and absorption, with reference to the colour of bodies, and their state of aggregation / Existence of a material medium pervading space / Opalescence of the atmosphere / Experiments on the vibrations of strings / Sounding and sensitive flames / Mr. Graham's recent discoveries on the diffusion of gases / Occlusion of gases by metals / Faraday as a discoverer / Vanadium, one of the Trivalent Group of elements / Rate at which chemical actions take place / Some new experiments on light / Artificial formation of organic substances / Some effects of the heat of the oxyhydrogen flame / Source of light in luminous flames / Chemical rays, and the light of the sky / Chemical constitution and its relation to physical and physiological properties / Newest colouring matters / Simplest organic compounds / Professor Graham's scientific work / Artificial production of Alizarine, the colouring principle of Madder / Ammonia compounds of Platinum -- Colour of water, and on the scattering of light in water and in air / Improvements in the manufacture of Chlorine / Some experiments on successive polarization of light made by Sir C. Wheatstone / Rumford's scientific discoveries / Revised theory of Phlogiston / Sea Waves / Gaseous and liquid states of matter / Dust and smoke / Last new metal, Indium / Identity of light and radiant heat / Crystallization of silver, gold, and other metals / Measuring temperatures by electricity / Sulphurous impurity in coal gas / Optical phenomena produced by crystals submitted to circularly polarized light / History of ozone / Action at a distance / Alcohols from flint and quartz / Spectra of polarized light / Evaporation and diffusion / Combinations of colour by means of polarized light / Sea Waves / Acoustic reversibility / Dissipation of energy / Action of heat on coloured liquids / New determinations of the velocity of light / Copper-zinc couple and its effects; Notes of Professor Gladstone's fifth lecture on chemical force -- (1876) Mechanical action of light / Action of light on Selenium / Paraffins and their alcohols / Methods of chemical decomposition as illustrated by water / Recent discoveries about Vanadium / Vortex motion / Solid water / Matter and ether / Influence of chemical constitution on the refraction of light / Experiments with a great induction coil / J. Tyndall -- Balfour Stewart -- H.E. Roscoe -- J. Tyndall -- (1867) J. Tyndall -- William Odling -- William Odling -- (1868) J. Tyndall -- Mr. H.E. Roscoe -- A. Vernon Harcourt -- J.H. Gladstone -- C.G. Williams -- William Odling -- E. Frankland -- (1869) J. Tyndall -- A. Crum Brown -- W.H. Perkin -- William Odling -- (1870) William Odling -- H.E. Roscoe -- William Odling -- (1871) J. Tyndall -- William Odling -- W. Spottiswoode -- W. Mattieu Williams -- William Odling -- W.J. Macquorn Rankine -- T. Andrews -- J. Tyndall -- (1872) William Odling -- J. Tyndall -- John Hall Gladstone -- C.W. Siemens -- A. Vernon Harcourt -- W. Spottiswoode -- William Odling -- (1873) J. Clerk Maxwell -- Emerson Reynolds -- W. Spottiswoode -- William Odling -- (1874) W. Spottiswoode -- Charles Watkins Merrifield -- (1875) J. Tyndall -- Lord Rayleigh -- Walter Noel Hartley -- A. Cornu -- W. Crookes -- C. William Siemens -- William Odling -- J.H. Gladstone -- H.E. Roscoe -- (1877) Osborne Reynolds -- Frederick Guthrie -- John Fletcher Moulton -- J.H. Gladstone -- W. Spottiswoode. Volume 2. (1866) Explanation of certain acoustical phenomena / Experiments in electro-photometry / Nocturne in black and yellow / Effects of stress on the magnetism of Iron, Cobalt, and Nickel / Liquefaction of gases / New Chemical Industry, established by M. Camille Vincent / Sorting demon of Maxwell / Molecular physics in high vacua / Optical study of the elasticity of solid bodies / Spectroscopic investigation / Investigations at high temperatures / Phenomena of the electric discharge with 14,400 Chloride of Silver cells / Teachings of modern spectroscopy / Elasticity viewed as possibly a mode of motion / Selenium and its applications to the Photophone and Telephotography / Conversion of radiant heat into sound / Indigo, and its artificial production / Origin and identity of spectra / Spectrum analysis in the infra red of the spectrum / Matter and magneto-electric action / Size of atoms / Ultra-violet spectra of the elements / Thoughts on radiation, theoretical and practical / Theory of magnetism / Two manners of motion of water / Volta-electric and magneto-electric induction / Researches on liquefied gases / Liquid films / Capillary attraction / Experiments showing Dilatancy, a property of Granular Material, possibly connected with Gravitation / On recent progress in the coal-tar industry / On dissociation temperatures with special reference to pyrotechnical questions / Suspended crystallisation / Genesis of the elements / Sunlight colours / On the colours of thin plates / Light as a analytic agent / Rolling contact of bodies / Diffraction of sound / Electrical influence machines / Phosphorescence and ozone / Electrostatic measurement / Electrical stress / Discharge of a Leyden Jar / Iridescent crystals / Aluminum / Optical properties of oxygen and ozone / Optical torque / Attempt to apply to chemistry one of the principles of Newton's Natural Philosophy / Quartz fibres / Lord Rayleigh -- James Dewar -- W. Spottiswoode -- Sir William Thomson -- James Dewar -- (1879) H.E. Roscoe -- Sir William Thomson -- William Crookes -- A. Cornu -- James Dewar -- (1880) James Dewar -- (1881) Warren De La Rue -- Arthur Schuster -- Sir William Thomson -- Shelford Bidwell -- J. Tyndall -- H.E. Roscoe -- James Dewar -- (1882) Captain W. de W. Abney -- W. Spottiswoode -- (1883) Sir William Thomson -- George D. Liveing -- J. Tyndall -- (1884) D.E. Hughes -- Osborne Reynolds -- Willoughby Smith -- James Dewar -- (1885) A.W. Rucker -- (1886) Sir William Thomson -- Osborne Reynolds -- Sir Henry E. Roscoe -- Frederick Siemens -- John Millar Thomson -- (1887) William Crookes -- Captain W. de W. Abney -- Lord Rayleigh -- James Dewar -- H.S. Hele Shaw -- (1888) Lord Rayleigh -- James Wimshurst -- James Dewar -- (1889) Sir William Thomson -- A.W. Rucker -- Oliver Lodge -- Lord Rayleigh -- Sir Henry Roscoe -- James Dewar -- Silvanus P. Thompson -- D. Mendeleeff -- C.V. Boys. Volume 3. (1878) Scientific work of Joule / Magnetic phenomena / Glow of Phosphorus / Electromagnetic radiation / Foam / Photographic image / Rejuvenescence of crystals / Some applications of photography / Electro-magnetic repulsion / Electric and magnetic screening / Liquids and gases / Crystallisation / Molecular process in magnetic induction / Rate of explosions in gases / Faraday centenary: H.R.H. / Alternate currents of high potential and high frequency / Optical projection / Motion of the Ether near the Earth / Metallic Carbonyls / Magnetic properties of liquid oxygen / Liquid atmospheric air / Turacin, a remarkable animal pigment containing Copper / Interference bands and their applications / Study of fluid motion by means of coloured bands / Scientific uses of liquid air / Scientific work of Tyndall / Electric discharge through gases / Splash of a drop and allied phenomena / Work of Hertz / Newtonian constant of gravitation / Phosphorescence and photographic action at the temperature of boiling liquid air / Physical work of von Helmholtz / Effects of electric currents in Iron on its Magnetisation / Absolute measurement of electrical resistance / More about Argon / New researches on liquid air / Colour photography / Electric shadows and luminescence / Hysteresis / Electric and magnetic research at low temperatures / James Dewar -- Shelford Bidwell -- T.E. Thorpe -- G.F. Fitz Gerald -- Lord Rayleigh -- Raphael Meldoza -- (1891) John W. Judd -- Lord Rayleigh -- J.A. Fleming -- Sir William Thomson -- W. Ramsey -- G.D. Liveing -- J.A. Ewing -- Harold B. Dixon -- The Prince of Wales and James Dewar -- (1892) Nikola Tesla -- Sir David Salomons -- Oliver Lodge -- Ludwig Mond -- James Dewar -- (1893) James Dewar -- A.H. Church -- Lord Rayleigh -- Osborne Reynolds -- (1894) James Dewar -- Lord Rayleigh -- J.J. Thomson -- A.M. Worthington -- Oliver Lodge -- C. Vernon Boys -- (1895) James Dewar -- A.W. Rucker -- John Hopkinson -- J. Viriamu Jones -- (1896) Lord Rayleigh -- James Dewar G. Lippmann -- Silvanus P. Thompson -- J.A. Ewing -- J.A. Fleming. Volume 4. (1890) Properties of liquid oxygen / Electro-magnetic radiation and the polarisation of the electric ray / Source of light in flames / Cathode rays / Contact electricity of metals / Le Fluor / Theory of colour vision applied to modern colour photography / Some new studies in cathode and rontgen radiations / Some recent results of physico-chemical injury / Liquid air as an analytic agent / Magneto-optic rotation and its explanation by a gyrostatic medium / Recent experiments on certain of the chemical elements in relation to heat / Some experiments with the telephone / Liquid hydrogen / Motion of a perfect liquid / Coherers / Measuring extreme temperatures / Transparency and opacity / Pictures produced on photographic plates in the dark / Magnetic perturbations of the spectral lines / Commemoration lectures / Flight / Recent studies in gravitation / Solid hydrogen / Nineteenth century clouds over the Dynamical Theory of heat and light / Gases at the beginning and end of the century / Electric waves / Some recent work of diffusion / Polish / Existence of bodies smaller than atoms / Response of inorganic matter to mechanical and electrical stimulus / Aims of the National Physical Laboratory / Low temperature research at the Royal Institution, 1983-1900 / Interference of sound / Ions of electrolysis / Musical and talking electric arcs / Sur la Radio-activite de la Matiere / Recent developments in colouring-matters / Experimental researches on the constitution of crystals / Electronic theory of electricity / James Dewar -- Jagadis Chunder Bose -- Arthur Smithells -- J.J. Thomson -- Lord Kelvin -- Henri Moissan -- (1898) Captain Abney -- Alan A. Campbell Swinton -- T.E. Thorpe -- James Dewar -- Andrew Gray -- W.A. Tilden -- Lord Rayleigh -- (1899) James Dewar -- H.S. Hele-Shaw -- Oliver Lodge -- H.L. Callendar -- Lord Rayleigh -- William James Russell -- Thomas Preston -- Lord Rayleigh, James Crichton Browne and James Dewar -- (1900) Lord Rayleigh -- John H. Poynting -- James Dewar -- Lord Kelvin -- (1901) James Dewar -- Gerald Molloy -- Horace T. Brown -- Lord Rayleigh -- J.J. Thomson -- Jagadis Chunder Bose -- Richard T. Glazebrook -- Agnes M. Clerke -- (1902) Lord Rayleigh -- A. Crum Brown -- W. Duddell -- H. Becquerel -- Otto N. Witt -- A.E. Tutton -- J.A. Fleming. Volume 5. (1897) Low temperature investigations / Perfumes, natural and artificial / Drops and surface tension / Some recent investigations on electrical conduction / Recent advances in Stereochemistry / Le Radium / Shadows / Condensation nuclei / Motion of viscous substances / Liquid Hydrogen Calorimetry / Development of the theory of electrolytic dissociation / New low temperature phenomena / High power microscopy / Structure of the atom / Pressure due to radiation / Development of Spectro-Chemistry / Some applications of the Theory of Electric Discharge to Spectroscopy / Electric production of Nitrates from the atmosphere / Passage of electricity through liquids / Recent progress in Magneto-Optics / Studies on charcoal and liquid air / Rays of positive electricity / Studies in High Vacua and Helium at low temperatures / Centenary of Davy's Discovery of the Metals of the Alkalis / Recent researches in Radio-activity / Ether of space / Explosive combustion, with special reference to that of Hydrocarbons / Carriers of positive electricity / Scientific work of William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) / Nadir of temperature and allied problems / Low temperature research at the Royal Institution 1900-1907 / James Dewar -- Adolf Liebmann -- Lord Rayleigh -- R.J. Strutt -- William J. Pope -- Pierre Curie -- (1904) Lord Rayleigh -- C.T.R. Wilson -- Frederick T. Trouton -- James Dewar -- Svante Arrhenius -- (1905) James Dewar -- John W. Gordon -- J.J. Thomson -- Ernest Fox Nichols -- Julius Wilhelm Bruhl -- (1906) J.J. Thomson -- Silvanus P. Thompson -- W.C. Dampier Whetham -- P. Zeeman -- James Dewar -- (1907) J.J. Thomson -- James Dewar -- (1908) T.E. Thorpe -- Ernest Rutherford -- Oliver Lodge -- William Arthur Bone -- J.J. Thomson -- Joseph Larmor -- James Dewar -- Henry E. Armstrong. Volume 6. (1903) Electrical properties of flame / Osmotic phenomena and their modern physical interpretation / Experiments at high temperatures and pressures / Electrical striations / Tantalum and its industrial applications / Recent advances in our knowledge of Silicon and of its relations to organised structures / Problems of Helium and Radium / Light reactions at low temperatures / Colours of sea and sky / Ionisation of gases and chemical change / Dynamics of a golf ball / Chemical significance of Crystal Structure / Chemical and physical change at low temperature / Radioactivity as a Kinetic Theory of a Fourth State of Matter / Mouvement Brownien et Grandeurs Moleculaires / New Method of chemical analysis / New organic compounds of Nitrogen / Recent experiments with invisible light / Heat problems / Very high temperatures / Some further applications of the method of positive rays / Active Nitrogen / Photography of the paths of particles ejected from atoms / Great advance in Crystallography / Spectroscope in organic chemistry / Applications of polarized light / Coming of age of the "Vacuum Flask" / Production of Neon and Helium by the electric discharge / Surface combustion / Fluid motions / X-rays and Crystalline Structure / Problems of Hydrogen and the Rare Gases / Experiments on Slow Cathode Rays / Electrons and heat / Radiations from exploding atoms / Harold Albert Wilson -- H.L. Callendar -- Richard Threlfall -- J.J. Thomson -- Alexander Siemens -- J. Emerson Reynolds -- James Dewar -- (1910) James Dewar -- Lord Rayleigh -- H. Brereton Baker -- J.J. Thomson -- William J. Pope -- (1911) James Dewar -- William H. Bragg -- Jean Perrin -- J.J. Thomson -- Martin O. Forster -- R.W. Wood -- (1912) James Dewar -- John Allen Duddell -- (1913) J.J. Thomson -- R.J. Strutt -- C.T.R. Wilson -- A.E.H. Tutton -- James J. Dobbie -- Thomas Martin Lowry -- (1914) James Dewar -- J. Norman Collie -- W.A. Bone -- Lord Rayleigh -- William H. Bragg -- (1915) James Dewar -- J.J. Thomson -- O.W. Richardson -- Ernest Rutherford. Volume 7. (1909) Problems in Capillarity / Mechanism of chemical change in living organisms / Spectra of Hydrogen and Helium / Genesis and absorption of X-rays / X-rays, atomic structure, electromagnetic radiation / Soap bubbles of long duration / Recent developments of molecular physics / Radioactive Haloes / Complexity of the chemical elements / Studies of liquid films / Motions of Ions in Gases / Gravitation and the Principle of Relativity / Vibrations: Mechanical, musical and electrical / Ether and matter: Being remarks on Inertia, and on Radiation, and on the possible structure of atoms / Energy distribution in Spectra / Atomic projectiles and their collisions with light atoms / Low temperature studies / Researches at high pressures and temperatures / Blue sky and the optical properties of air / Crystal structure / Isotopes and atomic weights / Electrosynthesis in organic chemistry / Elasticity / Absolute measurements of sound / Problems in the variability of Spectra / Vitamin problems / Structure of organic crystals / Soap films as detectors: Stream lines and sound / Origins of the conception of Isotopes / Gaseous combustion at high pressures: new experiments / Some new effects of alternating magnetism / Radiation of light / Life history of an Alpha Particle from Radium / James Dewar -- W.M. Bayliss -- A. Fowler -- J.J. Thomson -- C.G. Barkla -- (1917) James Dewar -- J.H. Jeans -- John Joly -- Frederick Soddy -- (1918) James Dewar -- John S. Townsend -- A.S. Eddington -- Edwin H. Barton -- (1919) Oliver J. Lodge -- John W. Nicholson -- Ernest Rutherford -- (1920) James Dewar -- Charles Parsons -- Lord Rayleigh -- W. Lawrence Bragg -- (1921) F.W. Aston -- James Walker -- A. Mallock -- Arthur Gordon Webster -- (1922) Thomas R. Merton -- Arthur Harden -- Sir William Bragg -- (1923) James Dewar -- Frederick Soddy -- William A. Bone -- W.M. Mordey -- Hendrik Antoon Lorentz -- Ernest Rutherford. Volume 8. (1916) Recent research on Crystalline Structure / Scattering of X-Rays / Nucleus of the atom / Colours, stains, and dyes / Glow of Phosphorus / Investigation of the properties of thin films by means of X-Rays / Sugars from the standpoint of the organic chemist / Soaps and the Theory of Colloids / Studies of Atomic Nuclei / Crystalline Structure of inorganic salts / Recent developments in the Theory of Magnetism / Faraday as a chemist / Films / Chemistry of red and blue colouring matters of flowers / Luminous discharge through Rare Gases / Tyndall's experiments of Magne-Crystallic Action / Some colouring agents in glasses and glazes / Rigidity and other anomalies in Colloidal Solutions / Photo-electricity / Photosynthesis / Quantum and relativity theories of light / Waves of an electron / Further progress in Crystal analysis / Chemiluminescence / Infra-Red Spectra / Air-pump, past and present / Cellulose in the Light of the X-Rays / Iridescent colour in nature / Transmutation of matter / Scattering of light / Ultrasonics: Some properties of inaudible sound / Sound, sand and smoke: New Light on old problems / Helium and its properties / Experimental aspects of Hydrogen Ion Concentration / X-ray investigation of the structure of liquids / Oil and petrol from coal / Optics of electrons / Uncertainty Principle in modern physics / Michael Faraday and electro-chemistry / Recent researches on the Gamma Rays / Electrical conductivity of metals at the lowest temperatures / Crystals of the living body / Photographic analysis of explosion flames / Recent researches on transmutation of the elements / Shapes of molecules / Liquid crystals / Sir William Bragg -- Sir William Bragg -- Sir Ernest Rutherford -- Jocelyn Field Thorpe -- Lord Rayleigh -- (1925) Sir William Bragg -- Sir James C. Irvine -- J.W. McBain -- Sir Ernest Rutherford -- W.L. Bragg -- Charles G. Darwin -- Sir William J. Pope -- (1926) Sir William B. Hardy -- Robert Robinson -- Richard Whiddington -- (1927) Sir William Bragg -- Sir Herbert Jackson -- Emil Hatschek -- (1928) Sir William Bragg -- E.C.C. Baly -- Edmund T. Whittaker -- George P. Thomson -- (1929) Sir William Bragg -- Eric K. Rideal -- Sir Robert Robertson -- E.N. Da C. Andrade -- (1930) Sir William Bragg -- Lord Rayleigh -- Sir Ernest Rutherford -- (1931) Sir William Bragg -- F. Lloyd Hopwood -- E.N. Da C. Andrade -- Lord Rutherford of Nelson -- J.C. Philip -- Sir William Bragg -- C.H. Lander -- G.P. Thomson -- (1932) C.G. Darwin -- Brig. General Sir Harold Hartley -- Lord Rutherford of Nelson -- J.C. M'Lennan -- (1933) Sir William Bragg -- W.A. Bone -- Lord Rutherford Nelson -- N.V. Sidgwick -- Sir William Bragg. Volume 9. (1924) Surface tension / New Hydrogen / Cosmic radiation / Elements and isotopes / Heavy water in chemistry / Approach to the Absolute Zero of Temperature / Some experiments in gravitation and magnetism / Neutron and radioactive transformations / Synthesis of a natural colouring matter / Sensitising dyes and their application to scientific photography / Electric properties of crystals (I) / Structures and forces in colloidal systems / Electric properties of crystals (II) / Whirlpools and vortices / Optical contact / Recent crystallography / Pigments associated with the fatty tissues of plants and animals / Electron diffraction and surface structure / Transmutation of heavy elements / Synthesis of large molecules / Clay / Science and the unobservable / Iodine / Ice / Nature of chemical reactivity / Combination tones in sound and light / Properties and structure of protein films / Structure of proteins / Liquid films / Magnets / New phenomena in liquid Helium / Allan Ferguson -- Lord Rutherford of Nelson -- P.M.S. Blackett -- F.W. Aston -- M. Polanyi -- (1935) F. Simon -- A.O. Rankine -- Lord Rutherford of Nelson -- Robert Robinson -- (1936) C.E.K. Mees -- Sir William Bragg -- H. Freundlich -- Sir William Bragg -- E.N. da C. Andrade -- Lord Rayleigh -- (1937) Sir William Bragg -- I.M. Heilbron -- G.I. Finch -- Lord Rutherford of Nelson -- H. Mark -- Sir William Bragg -- H. Dingle -- Irvine Masson -- (1938) Sir William Bragg -- H.W. Melville -- Sir William Bragg -- Irving Langmuir -- (1939) J.D. Bernal -- Sir William Bragg -- W.L. Bragg -- J.D. Cockcroft. Volume 10. (1934)
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