The book "Products of uranium disintegration" with an autograph by P.A.Rebinder, St. Petersburg, 1913

An autographed book

Georgy Antonov. Products of uranium disintegration. St. Petersburg, 1913.

An exceptionally rare edition of the master's thesis of one of the first Russian scientists in the field of radioactive elements with the autograph of physicochemist academician Peter Alexandrovich Rebinder.

Rebinder was one of the founders of modern colloidal chemistry. The ways of its development were largely determined by his ideas and discoveries. Many of his ideas have stood the test of time and are successfully developing in many scientific centers around the world. The scientific achievements of the scientist were adequately appreciated by his contemporaries and enjoyed well-deserved authority among the foreign scientific community.

Pyotr Alexandrovich opened a new scientific direction - physico-chemical mechanics. In 1928, there was a real discovery called the Ribinder effect. Since then, deformation and destruction of solids have been considered not as mechanical, but as physico-chemical processes.

In 1935, the scientist created the largest scientific center - the Department of Dispersed Systems at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Rebinder's approach to science has made it possible to radically change and improve many different technologies. The fact that colloidal chemistry occupies an important place in the curricula of many technological, agricultural, medical universities and academies is a direct merit of Rebinder.

The book "Products of uranium disintegration" was written by Georgy Nikolaevich Antonov. In 1908-1911, he was listed as an employee of Ernest Rutherford's laboratory in Manchester, where he emigrated after the revolution, fearing persecution. He studied surface tension and formulated a rule according to which the surface tension of liquids changes at the interface of two phases (Antonov's Rule, 1906).

In the 1910s, he continued his studies at Cambridge under Professor D. Nicholson. He was a professor of chemistry at the Mining Institute in Yekaterinburg in 1916, and since 1918 worked in private laboratories in London.

Antonov is one of the pioneers of the study of radioactivity in Russia, which he began working for Rutherford and continued upon his return to his homeland. He was engaged in the chemical identification of uranium decay products. In 1920, he received a doctorate in natural Sciences from the University of Manchester, and later worked in France and the USA.