M0015316: Experiments by Blackett in a Wilson Cloud Chamber

Previous title, replaced October 2021: Experiments by Blackett in a Wilson Cloud Chamber.

Reproduction of two photographs showing an alpha particle strike a helium nucleus and they part at right angles, and an alpha particle enter nitrogen which ejects proton and becomes nitrogen. Published in Eve, A. S.: Rutherford : being the life and letters of the Rt. Hon. Lord Rutherford, O. M, Cambridge: The University Press, 1939.

October 1956

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.