possible about engineering. I have always been, and still am, interested in that
subject’. The account is anonymously annotated, ‘written in 1961’, and
probably accompanied Le Rossignol’s gift to UCL at that time. See Chap. 18.
36. The New York Times, ‘GOLD FROM SEA WATER; English scientist said to
have endorsed method for extracting it’, (09 April 1905). Also, the Minnetonka
Record, Excelsior, Minnesota, ‘Company formed in England to extract metal
from water—once tried in America’, (03 March 1905).
37. Professor Arthur Stewart Eve, Macdonald Professor and Director of Physics,
McGill University, Montreal. Rutherford, being the life and letters of the Rt.
Hon Lord Rutherford, OMI. Cambridge University Press, (1939).
38. Ramsay believed that the transmutation of the elements could be achieved by
utilising the ‘concentrated energy’ of the radium ‘emanation’, radon. Travers,
op. cit. (note 29). The terms ‘transmutation’ and ‘emanation’ were coined by
Ramsay.
39. Mme. Curie and her husband Pierre had been jointly awarded the 1903
Nobel Prize in Physics. She considered that she had taken possession of the
science of radio-activity and did not take kindly to Ramsay’s intervention.
40. Jersey Heritage Trust, Clarence Road, St. Helier, Jersey. JE2 4JY.
http://jerseyheritage.org.
41. Most of the men and women who had been Ramsay’s students, or had
collaborated in his researches or had been members of his staff remained, at
best, ‘acquaintances’. Travers, op. cit. (note 29).
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subject’. The account is anonymously annotated, ‘written in 1961’, and
probably accompanied Le Rossignol’s gift to UCL at that time. See Chap. 18.
36. The New York Times, ‘GOLD FROM SEA WATER; English scientist said to
have endorsed method for extracting it’, (09 April 1905). Also, the Minnetonka
Record, Excelsior, Minnesota, ‘Company formed in England to extract metal
from water—once tried in America’, (03 March 1905).
37. Professor Arthur Stewart Eve, Macdonald Professor and Director of Physics,
McGill University, Montreal. Rutherford, being the life and letters of the Rt.
Hon Lord Rutherford, OMI. Cambridge University Press, (1939).
38. Ramsay believed that the transmutation of the elements could be achieved by
utilising the ‘concentrated energy’ of the radium ‘emanation’, radon. Travers,
op. cit. (note 29). The terms ‘transmutation’ and ‘emanation’ were coined by
Ramsay.
39. Mme. Curie and her husband Pierre had been jointly awarded the 1903
Nobel Prize in Physics. She considered that she had taken possession of the
science of radio-activity and did not take kindly to Ramsay’s intervention.
40. Jersey Heritage Trust, Clarence Road, St. Helier, Jersey. JE2 4JY.
http://jerseyheritage.org.
41. Most of the men and women who had been Ramsay’s students, or had
collaborated in his researches or had been members of his staff remained, at
best, ‘acquaintances’. Travers, op. cit. (note 29).
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