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Aston, Francis William (1877 - 1945)
ISOTOPES.
London, Edward Arnold & Co., 1923.
8vo. VIII, 152 pp. + 4 half-tone plates. 21 text figs.

Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, upper cover slightly stained.
The copy of Inga Fisher-Hjalmars, with her pencil annotations.

$ 300

First edition, second impression, of Aston's book on the abundance and distribution of isotopes. Aston received the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1922 "for his discovery, by means of his spectrograph, of the isotopes, in a large number of non-radioactice elements, and for his enunciation of the whole-number rule".

* DSB, 1, pp. 320-2. PMM 412 (for the 1st ed. 1922). Norman 77-8 (1st ed. 1922).