RUTHERFORD, Ernest. & NUTTALL, John Mitchell. Scattering of alpha Particles by Gases.
First edition.

Offprint of this important paper on the results of the Geiger-Marsden experiment.(Trenn: The Geiger-Marsden Scattering Results and Rutherford's Atom, Isis, vol. 65:) "The transformation of the extrinsic value attached to the Geiger-Marsden evidence can be accounted for in part by the accretion of new experimental evidence. With J.M. Nuttall in 1913 [ref. the offered paper] Rutherford examined the case of small-angle scattering on light atoms. Rutherford obliquely referred to this mutual reinforcement of experimental evidence in a letter to Lodge, July 1913: 'I think the evidence that the mass of the atom is concentrated in a charged nucleus of exceedingly small dimensions is very strong. ... If you read the paper of Geiger and Marsden in the Phil. Mag. of a few months ago, ... you will see that any other theory of atomic constitution will do as well. On this view ... the hydrogen atom has nucleus 1 charge, helium 2, carbon 6, and so on. (With Nuttall) I have just obtained evidence from scattering of alpha rarys that the above distribution of charge is essentially correct'. Rutherford and Nuttall concluded that 'the scattering coefficient observed is a consequence mainly of 'single' scattering.' [ref. this paper]".

8vo: 217 x 139 mm. Offprint from: Philosophical Magazine, vol. 26, pp. 702 - 712. Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper detached with the lower left corner torn away and a smaller piece missing from the right margin, otherwise fine. Rare.