- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Ward
- Provenance
- Presented by Lady Dalrymple-Champneys in 1989. From papers of her former husband A. S. Russell.
- Primary inscriptions
- Printed photographer's details etc. on back, including: 'Photo by Ward -- 249, Oxford Rd., Manchester.'. Inscribed on back: 'Rutherford & Geiger in Geiger's room beside the apparatus used by them in 1908 for counting the [alpha]-particles ejected by radium Physical Laboratories Manchester University March 1912' [in A. S. Russell's hand].
- Physical material
- Paper
- Dimensions
- Height: 139mm Width: 222mm
- Inventory No
- 12780
Description
Photograph of Geiger (left) and Rutherford sitting on stools beside apparatus in Geiger's laboratory at the Physical Laboratories, Manchester University. Geiger worked at Manchester with Rutherford in 1907-12, and devised apparatus for detecting radio-active particles that was the forerunner of the Geiger counter. Horizontal format. Tear and crease. The photograph belonged to Alexander Smith Russell (1888-1972), who worked at Manchester 1911-14. See also 12781 and 12782.
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