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Volta pile — On March 20, 1800, Alessandro - Volta, then professor of the University of Pavia sent a letter in French from Como, Lombardy to Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) the president of the Royal Society of London, for publication. He described a device - that he called artificial electrical organ referring to the natural electrical organ of the torpedo or electric eel - producing perpetual electrical motion. The paper was read at the Society on 26 June and published in the September issue of the Philosophical Transactions. The whole paper appeared in English in the Philosophical Magazine the same year [i, ii]. 

Ehrenfest, P. [1917] Adiabatic Invariant and the Theory of Quanta , Philosophical Magazine, 33, 500. 

Stoner, E. [1924] The Distribution of Electrons among Atomic Levels , Philosophical Magazine, (6), 48, p. 719. 

Bohr, N. 1913 On the constitution of atoms and molecules, Part 11 systems containing only a single nucleus. Philosophical Magazine 26 476-502. 

Ramey, BA, Master of Science Thesis, Elorida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 1998. Rayleigh, L, On the Inflnence of Obstacles arranged in Rectangular Order upon the Properties of a Medium, Philosophical Magazine 34,481, 1892. 

Sontherland, W, A Dynamical Theory of Diffusion for Non-Electrolytes and the Molecnlar Mass of Albnmin, Philosophical Magazine 9, 781, 1905. 

Wellisch, E.M. The Distribution of Active Deposit of Radium in an Electric Field, Philosophical Magazine 26 623-635 (1913). 

Rutherford, E. (1899). Uranium radiation and the electrical conduction produced by it. Philosophical Magazine 5 XLVII 109-163. 

Rutherford, E. and Andrade, E. (1914). The wavelength of the soft gamma rays from Radium B. Philosophical Magazine Series 6 27 854-868. 

Rutherford, E. and Royds, T. (1909). The nature of the alpha particle from radioactive substances. Philosophical Magazine Series 6, 17 281-286. 

Rutherford, E. and Soddy, F. (1902). The cause and nature of radioactivity. Philosophical Magazine Series 6 4 370-396. 

Thomson, J. J. (1904). On the structure of the atom an investigation of the stability and periods of oscillation of a number of corpuscles arranged at equal intervals around the circumference of a circle with application of the results to the theory of atomic structure. Philosophical Magazine Series 6 7 237-265. 

With the Chemical Society s inauguration of its Journal in 1847, English chemists now had a specialized journal of record, which supplemented their previous outlets in the Philosophical Magazine (1798) and the Chemical Gazette (1843), the latter the predecessor of William Crookes s Chemical News (founded 1859). In the case of the Philosophical Magazine and the Chemical Gazette, we have a well-documented illustration of how the history of scientific journals and the history of the formation of disciplinary specialties overlap with business entrepreneurship, in this case, that of the publishing firm of Taylor and Francis. 

In a letter from Lapworth to Robinson, 17 June 1922, Lapworth recommends J. J. Thomson s recent paper in the Philosophical Magazine which supports this idea. 

Bohr, Niels. "On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules." Philosophical Magazine 26 (1913) 119, 476502,... 

The Forces between Atoms and Chemical Affinity." Philosophical Magazine 27 (1914) 758789. 

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