Masson, Irvine

Masson, Irvine. 1913. The Occurrence of Neon in Vacuum-tubes Containing Hydrogen. Proceedings of the Chemical Society 29 418 (June 28, 1913) 233. 

While some contemporary alchemists such as Hunter, Emmens, Jollivet-Castelot, and Ayton had indeed tried to make gold, Ramsay s attempted transmutations led to a rush toward a different kind of treasure scientific immortality. Multiple chemists pursued the same kinds of experiments that Ramsay had, believing that they too had found positive results. They attempted to position themselves within the scientific world as the first to have proven artificial transmutation. Between 1907, when Ramsay announced his supposed copper transmutations in Nature, and 1914, when he abandoned his efforts, several significant chemists (including J. N. Collie, Hubert Patterson, E. C. C. Baly, Thomas Merton, Irvine Masson, and A. C. G. Egerton) all participated in experiments to use either radium emanation or cathode rays and X-rays to cause chemical transmutation. 

Collie, J. Norman, Hubert S. Patterson, and Irvine Masson. 1914. The Production of Neon and Helium by the Electrical Discharge. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. 91 623 (November 2, 1914) 30-45 (communicated July 23, 1914). 

Myers, D., Yanishevski, Y., Masson, E., Irvin, J., Evans, W., and Uckun, F. (1995) Favorable pharmacodynamic features and superior anti-leukemic activity of B43 (anti-CD19) immunotoxins containing two pokeweed antiviral protein molecules covalently linked to each monoclonal antibody molecule. Leuk. Lymphoma 18, 93-102. 

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