Friedrich Ernst Dorn
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Halle University |
Friedrich Ernst Dorn (27 July 1848 – 16 December 1916) was a
.Life and work
Dorn was born in
In 1900, Dorn published a paper in which he described experiments that repeated and extended some earlier work on thorium by Ernest Rutherford. Dorn verified Rutherford's observation that a radioactive material was emitted by thorium, and discovered that a similar emission arose from the element radium.[5] Additional work by Rutherford and Soddy showed that the same emission came from both thorium and radium, that it was a gas, and that it was actually a new element.[6]
Dorn called the radioactive gaseous product from radium simply "emanation", but in 1904 Rutherford introduced the name "radium emanation" for the same material. Ramsay later suggested "niton", from the Latin word "nitens" meaning "shining".[7] In 1923 the name was again changed, this time to radon by an international body of scientists.
Marshall and Marshall have examined the original papers leading to radon's discovery and their work should be consulted for a full treatment and extensive references.
References
- ^ The position of ordinarius professor outranks that of extraordinarius professor, which is comparable to that of associate professor.
- ^ Jungnickel and McCormmach, 1990b: p. 37
- University of Munich, who adroitly used experimental physics to test and develop their theories.
- ^ Jungnickel and McCormmach, 1990b: p. 293
- ^ Dorn, F. E. (1900). "Die von radioactiven Substanzen ausgesandte Emanation". Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Halle. 23: 1–15.
- ^ Rutherford, E. (1906). Radioactive Transformations. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 70–94.
- ^ Ramsay, W. (1915). The Gases of the Atmosphere (4 ed.). London: Macmillan. pp. 283.
- ^ Marshall, James L.; Virginia R. Marshall (2003). "Ernest Rutherford, The "True Discoverer" of Radon" (PDF). Bulletin for the History of Chemistry. 28 (2): 76–83. Retrieved 2021-03-16.
Further reading
- Intellectual Mastery of Nature: Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein, Volume 1: The Torch of Mathematics, 1800 to 1870. University of Chicago Press, 1990a.
- Jungnickel, Christa and Russell McCormmach. Intellectual Mastery of Nature: Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein, Volume 2: The Now Mighty Theoretical Physics, 1870 to 1925. University of Chicago Press, 1990b.
- Marshall, James L.; Virginia R. Marshall (2003). "Ernest Rutherford, The "True Discoverer" of Radon" (PDF). Bulletin for the History of Chemistry. 28 (2): 76–83. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-21. Retrieved 2008-03-05.
- doi:10.1021/ed010p79.
- Wigand, A. (1916). "Ernst Dorn". Phys. Z. 17: 299.