1. See, for example, Ronald W. Clark, The Birth of the Bomb: The Untold Story of Britain’s Part in the Weapon that Changed the World (London: Phoenix House, 1961); Lawrence Badash, Elizabeth Hodes, and Adolph Tiddens, “Nuclear Fission: Reaction to the Discovery in 1939,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 130 (1986), 196-231; Lawrence Badash, Scientists and the Development of Nuclear Weapons (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1995).
2. George Thomson, “Preface,” in Clark, Birth of the Bomb (ref. 1), p. v.
3. Lawrence Badash, ed., Rutherford and Boltwood: Letters on Radioactivity (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1969), p. 9.
4. For example, A.S. Eve, Rutherford: Being the Life and Letters of the Rt Hon. Lord Rutherford, O.M. (Cambridge: At the University Press and New York: The Macmillan Company, 1939) is one of a host of books and articles that provide both basic and extensive accounts of Rutherford’s life, career, and research accomplishments.
5. E. Rutherford and R.K. McClung, “Energy of Röntgen and Becquerel Rays, and the Energy required to produce an Ion in Gases,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society [A] 196 (1901), 25-59, on 25, 58; reprinted in The Collected Papers of Lord Rutherford of Nelson O.M., F.R.S. Published under the Scientific Direction of Sir James Chadwick, F.R.S. Vol. 1. New Zealond-Cambridge-Montreal (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1962), pp. 260-295, on pp. 260, 294.