Overview
Frederick Soddy (1877-1956) was a chemist and Nobel Prize winning radioactive decay and radium emanation researcher. Papers reflect work on Soddy’s memoirs by author Muriel Howorth, including correspondence with Soddy as well as with other scientists.
Dates
- Creation: 1920-1956 (inclusive).
Creator
- Soddy, Frederick, 1877-1956. (Person)
Language of Materials
Records are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
.25 cubic feet (1 half letter size document box)The Frederick Soddy papers, 1920-1956 (inclusive), consist of correspondence between Frederick Soddy and author Muriel Howorth on the subject of Soddy’s memoirs, which Howorth was compiling for her 1958 publication Pioneer research on the atom; Rutherford and Soddy in a glorious chapter of science; the life story of Frederick Soddy, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., Nobel laureate (London: New World Publications).
Materials entirely in English.
Biographical Notes
Frederick Soddy (1877-1956), was educated at Eastbourne College, Eastbourne, England; the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales; and Merton College, Oxford, England. Soddy taught chemistry, physical chemistry, and courses on radioactivity at: McGill University, Montreal, Canada; University College London, England; the University of Glasgow, Scotland; the University of Aberdeen, Scotland; and Oxford University, England. Until his retirement from Oxford in 1937, Soddy worked in the field of radioactivity, doing early work with Ernest Rutherford and William Ramsay on radioactive decay and radium emanation. He is responsible for the “Displacement Law” and was one of the first to work on the idea of the isotope. In 1921, Soddy was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes.
Processing Information
Processed by Hanna Clutterbuck, 2012 July.
Processing staff in the Center for the History of Medicine refoldered and reboxed the material and created a finding aid to enhance access. The material was originally found as part of the Lloyd E. Hawes papers and was separated from that collection.
- Title
- Soddy, Frederick, 1877-1956. Papers, 1920-1956 (inclusive): Finding Aid.
- Author
- Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. Center for the History of Medicine.
- Language of description
- und
- Sponsor
- Processing of the Frederick Soddy papers was funded by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine's Lloyd E. Hawes Fund for Radiology.
- EAD ID
- med00164
Repository Details
Part of the Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine) Repository
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