Soddy described himself as a professional chemist given to writing on
chemistry matters within his knowledge. Remembering his writings and
thoughts on economic affairs, it is not surprising that he strayed over the
boundaries of both fields and was liable to pen various philosophical aspects
of his outlook on life in general. A volume of his addresses in Science and
,
published in 1920, shows his regard for the more spiritual aspects of the things
of life. Particularly there stands out his great belief in the grand concept of a
university and all it stands for. He had many hard things to say about educa
tion and some even harder about educationalists, but he never lost sight of the
importance of the universities and of the need for sustaining and developing
the university spirit. He chose as the subject of his closing address to the
Scientific Association of Aberdeen University the title ‘The ideals of a science
school’ (74) and his final words on that occasion have to me at least a ring of
greatness about them:
‘Were all the powers of darkness in dominion over her yet is the University
a holy place where year by year congregate pilgrims in the greatness and
generosity of youth “to learn what none may teach, to seek what none may
reach” to perpetuate the vision of youth after youth itself has sped. When this
ceases to be true then, and then only, will the ancient Universities have
grown old.’
He was elected F.R.S. in 1910.
He was awarded the Cannizzaro Prize, Rome 1913.
He was Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1921.
He was made LL.D. Glasgow University 1934.
He was a foreign member of the Swedish, Italian and Russian Academies
of Science.
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Scientific papers
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E. H
ughes
.)
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(With
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.)
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R
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,
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(4) 1903. (With E.
R
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Radioactivity of uranium, Phil. Mag.
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(5) 1903. (With E.
R
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A comparative study of radioactivity of radium and
thorium, Phil. Mag.
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(6) 1903. (With E.
R
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.)
Condensation of the radioactive emanations, Phil. Mag.
(6), 5, 561.
(7) 1903. (With E.
R
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.)
Radioactive change. Phil. Mag.
(6), 5, 576.
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1903. (With
S
ir
W
m
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amsay
.)
Experiments in radioactivity and the production of
helium from radium. Proc. Roy. Soc.
72
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204.
(9)
1903. (With S
ir
W
m
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amsay
.)
Further experiments on the production of helium
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,
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(10) 1902. The radioactivity of uranium. Trans. Chem. Soc.
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(11) 1905-31. Collected papers on production of Ra from U in Phil. Mag.
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I. 1905, (6), 9
,
768.
II. (With T. D.
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Aug. 1907, (6), 14
,
272.
III. 1908, (6), 16, 632.
IV. 1909, (6), 18
,
846.
V. 1910, (6), 20
,
340.
VI. (With Miss A. F. R.
H
itchins
.)
1915, (6), 30, 209.
VII. 1919, (6), 38
,
483.
V III. (With A. F. R.
H
itchens
.)
1924, (6), 47
,
1148. (Containing period of Io
and ratio of Io to Th in Colorado carnotite and Joachimstahl pitch
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IX. 1931, (7), 12
,
939.
(12) 1907. Calcium as an absorbent of gases for the production of high vacua and spectro
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A, 78
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429.
(13) 1908. Die Wehnelt-Kathode im hochgradien Vakuum. Phys. Z*
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(14) 1908. (With T. D.
M
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The electric discharge in monatomic gases. Proc. Roy.
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A, 80
,
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(15) 1907. (With
B
aron
R
udolph
von
H
irsch
.)
A gas generated by aluminium electrodes.
Phil. Mag.
14
,
779.
(16) 1908. Attempts to detect the production of helium from the primary radio-elements.
Phil. Mag.
16
,
513.
(17) 1909. Die Bildung von Helium aus Uranium. Phys. £. 10
,
41.
(18) 1909. Multiple atomic disintegration. Phil. Mag.
18
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739.
(19) 1908. The charge carried by the a-particle. Ion, 1, 4.
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(6), 18
,
858; (6),
20, 342.
(21) 1910-11. (With A.
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The conduction of heat through rarefied gases. Proc.
Roy. Soc.
A, 83, 254 (Part 1); 576 (Part II).
(22) 1909. (With A. S.
R
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.)
The
y -
rays of uranium and radium. Phil. Mag.
(6), 18
,
620.
(23) 1911. (With A. S.
R
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.)
The
y -
rays of thorium and actinium. Phil. Mag.
(6), 21
,
130.
(24) 1910. (With A. S.
R
ussell
.)
The constant of uranium X. Phil. Mag.
(6), 19
,
847.
(25) 1910. (With
(M
rs
)
W.
M. S
oddy
and A.
S. R
ussell
.)
The question of the homo
geneity of the
y -
rays. Phil. Mag.
(6), 19
,
725.
(26) 1910-11. (With (Miss)
R
uth
P
irret
.)
The ratio between uranium and radium in
minerals. I and II. Phil. Mag.
(6), 20
,
345 (I); (6), 21
,
652 (II).
(27) 1910. Essais pour evaluer le periode de Pionium. Le Radium, 7
,
295.
(28) 1911. The chemistry of mesothorium. Trans. Chem. Soc.
99
,
72.
(29) 1913. The radio-elements and the periodic law. Chem. News, 107
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97; Jb. Radioak.
10
,
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,
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,
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,
331, 399 arid 452.)
(30) 1913. The origin of actinium, Nature
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91
,
634.
(31) 1914. The existence of uranium Y. Phil. Mag.
(6), 37, 215.
(32) 1914. (With
H
enry
H
yman
.)
The atomic weight of lead from Ceylon thorite. Trans.
Chem. Soc.
105
,
1402;
compare also Nature
,
Lond.
94
,
615;
Engineering
,
28.V.1915
and 1.x.
1915;
Ann. Rep. Chem. Soc.
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O. Honigschmid, Z* Elektrochem.
1919,
25
,
91.
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(33) 1915. The density of lead from Ceylon thorite, Nature
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Lond.
94
,
615.
(34) 1917. The separation of isotopes. A comment on the paper by T. W. Richards and
N. F. Hall. J . Amer. Chem. Soc. 39, 1614.
(35) 1918. (With J. A.
C
ranston
,
and in part with Miss
H
itchens
.)
The parent of
actinium. Proc. Roy. Soc.
A, 94
,
384.
(36) 1921. Contribution to discussion on isotopes. Proc. Roy. Soc.
A, 99
,
97.
(37) 1934. Contribution to discussion on heavy hydrogen. Proc. Roy. Soc.
A, 144
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11.
(38) 1932. The a-rays of ionium. Nature, Lond.
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(39) 1936. The kiss precise. Nature
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(40) 1936. The hextet. Nature, Lond.
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(41) 1937. The bowl of integers and the hextet. Nature
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,
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Newton & Leibniz series for
tt
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the Chemical Society of London.
(45) 1903. Some recent advances in radioactivity. Contemporary Review, May. p. 708.
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Lectures
,
Addresses and Obituary Notices
,
etc.
(46) 1904. The evolution of matter as revealed by the radioactive elements. The Wilde
Lecture V III. Mem. & Proc. Manchester Lit. & Phil. Soc.
16 Mar.
(47) 1906. The internal energy of elements. Institution of Electrical Engineers, Glasgow
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37, part 179.
(48) 1906. The nature of the a-ray, J . Rontgen Soc.
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(49) 1906. The evolution of the elements. Section A. British Assn. Meeting at York, 1906.
Rep. Brit. Ass.
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(50) 1908. The source of radioactive energy (Watt Anniversary Lecture for 1908, of the
Greenock Philosophical Society 17.1.1908).
(51) 1917. The evolution of matter. Aberdeen University Review, Feb. 1917.
(52) 1912. The origin of radium (Royal Institution, London, Lecture 15.III. 1912.)
(53) 1917. The complexity of the chemical elements (Royal Institution, London, Lecture,
18.V.1917).
(54) J919. The conception of the chemical element as enlarged by the study of radioactive
change. Trans. Chem. Soc.
115
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(55) 1922. Isotopes. (Institut International de Ghimie Solvay. Introduction to Discussion
on Atomic Structure, Reunion de Bruxelles April 1922.)
(56) 1922. The origins of the conception of isotopes (Nobel Lecture, Stockholm
12.XII.1922).
(57) 1923. The origin of the conception of isotopes (Royal Institution Lecture, London,
1.V.1923).
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2
,
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(59) 1953. Just fifty years ago. (Address to the Inst, of Atomic Information to the Layman
on the occasion of the Jubilee of the Interpretation of Radioactivity at
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(60) 1921. Cartesian economics. The bearing of physical science on state stewardship.
(Two Lectures to the Student Unions of Birkbeck College and the London
School of Economics. Nov. 10 and 17, 1921.)
(61) 1924. The inversion of science and a scheme of scientific reformation. (Based on lec
tures delivered at various University centres through 1923.)
(62) 1927. The impact of science on an old civilization. (Inaugural Address to the Students
of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. 19.X.1927.)
(63) 1934. A physical theory of money. (Paper to the Liverpool Engineering Society,
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atomic energy
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the future. (Luncheon Address to The British Constitutional
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Electrician Publishing Co. German Translation, J. A. Barth, Leipzig.
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John Murray,
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by Jean Perrin. Taylor &
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John Murray. (Appendices A, B and C refer
to criticism of the financial operations of the Carnegie Trust for the
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