Todd Neil
Notes Rec R Soc Lond. 2014 Sep 20;68(3):279-300. doi: 10.1098/rsnr.2013.0070.
In this paper I give a brief summary of what is known about the acquisition, use and fate of the radium sources that were in the possession of Lord Rutherford during his lifetime. The account is written in two parts, corresponding to the periods from the discovery of radium in 1898 until his death in 1937 and then from 1937 until recent times. The history of Rutherford's radium closely shadows the history of radioactivity, the evolution of nuclear physics, the race for the bomb, and the development of the nuclear industry.
在本文中,我简要概述了卢瑟福勋爵生前拥有的镭源的获取、使用和去向。本文分为两部分,分别对应从1898年镭的发现到1937年他去世,以及从1937年到近代这两个时期。卢瑟福镭源的历史与放射性历史、核物理学的发展、原子弹竞赛以及核工业的发展紧密相连。