Tracing the Roots of Nuclear Physics: Experiments by Early Pioneers

[Azael]

Where can all the classic papers by the experimentalists that layed the foundation for nuclear physics be found?

Rutherford, joliot-curie, fermi, lawrence, Hahn ect.
Im very interested in reading exactly how they setup there experiments, the conclusions they drew and so on.

 

[arivero]

there is a russian site having translations (to english) of the earlier papers. You can find Dirac papers in the Royal Society journals, free until december, and surely a bunch of references to experimentalists there. You can find old french and european journals for free in Gallica.

I do not remember the links. You could try the "online" tag in physcomments.org

 

[Azael]

there is a russian site having translations (to english) of the earlier papers. You can find Dirac papers in the Royal Society journals, free until december, and surely a bunch of references to experimentalists there. You can find old french and european journals for free in Gallica.

I do not remember the links. You could try the "online" tag in physcomments.org

Thanks :) Il try there

 

[Hans de Vries]

You can find Dirac papers in the Royal Society journals, free until december,
I do not remember the links. You could try the "online" tag in physcomments.org

http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/index.cfm?page=1373

Still the best work to study the Dirac equation are the papers in
which Dirac introduced it:

The Quantum Theory of the Electron.
vol 117, 1 February 1928, pp.610-24
The Quantum Theory of the Electron II
vol 118, 1 March 1928, pp. 351-61

Dirac's start in quantum mechanics is where he, after reading
Heisenberg's paper on Matrix mechanics, introduces the Poisson
brackets from classical dynamics into quantum mechanics:

The fundamental equations of quantum mechanics.
vol 109, 1 December 1925, pp. 642-53

Hard to read without Heisenberg's work though. One might use:
The physical interpretation of the quantum theory:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486601137/?tag=pfamazon01-20
for this, see the appendix (which is half the book) Other famous Dirac papers where published elsewhere:
The lagrangian in Quantum Mechanics:
Physikalische Zeitschrift der Sowjetunion, vol 3, n0.1, pp 64-72
The theory of magnetic poles:
The Physical Review, vol 74, no.7, 1 October 1948, pp. 817-30Regards, Hans

 

[Gokul43201]

Classic Papers:

Search here by author for European classics (I've seen papers by Lorentz, Curie, Arrhenius, van der Waals, de Haas, Onnes, Zeeman)
http://www.knaw.nl/cfdata/digital_library/output/proceedings/works.cfm
(thanks to Astronuc for that reference)

For another 18 days, the Royal Society's digital archive is FREE!
http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/(yuvxwsm1u4troaijxznq4x45)/app/home/main.asp?referrer=default

Interviews and citations for PRL's Top Ten
http://www.aps.org/apsnews/topten.cfm

Physical Review gave free access to a collection of classics during their centennial, a couple years ago (Zz linked it in a thread here). I think that access has since been closed down.