2026-10-09 PubMed Central: N. Todd (2014), "A brief history of Lord Rutherford's radium"

URL: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4123660/ (saved: research/pages/pmc-todd-2014-rutherford-radium.html). Found [web: URL above]: - Scope: acquisition, use and fate of Rutherford's radium sources, 1898-1937 and after; background is contamination in his Manchester laboratories. - Early radium from Elster and Geitel, then Giesel's preparations; Soddy's letters (Cambridge Add.7653) on supply; Austrian monopoly of Joachimsthal residues; Vienna Institute for Radium Research (1908, Stefan Meyer). - 1919-20 Cavendish notebooks show two pumps feeding Rutherford's and Chadwick's experiments with Ra-C (Po-214) and Ra-F (Po-210) sources for the transmutation work. - Harwell Health Physics decontamination at the Cavendish, Sept-Oct 1958. Bears on: claim 6 (the laboratory record of the 1919-20 transmutation experiments), historical record. Result: positive.