Boltwood, Bertram Borden, 1870-1927.
Bertram Borden Boltwood papers, 1890-1932.
Correspondence, laboratory notebooks, lectures, and other writings of B.B. Boltwood, scientist and professor of radiochemistry at Yale, best known for his early work in the study of radiation. Of particular note is Boltwood's extended correspondence with Lord Rutherford, the father of atomic physics.
Ph.D. from Yale 1897; opened a private laboratory in New Haven with Joseph Hyde Pratt and acted as consultant to industry, 1900-1906; began work on radioactivity in 1904; Yale professor of physics in 1906, professor of radiochemistry, 1910-1927.
Boltwood, Bertram Borden, 1870-1927.
Rutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937
Yale University -- Faculty.
Yale University. Sheffield Scientific School.
Nuclear physics.
Radioactivity.
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