Smithells

C.J. Smithells. Metals Reference Book, 7th edn. Butterworth-Heinemann (1996) TN761. S55. 

C. J. Smithells Metals Reference Book, 7th edition, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1992 and the ASM Metals Handbook, 10th edition, ASM International, 1990 (for data). 

Smithells Metals Reference Book, 7th edition, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1992 (for diffusion data). 

I- P. Chilton, Principles of Metallic Corrosion, 2nd edition. The Chemical Society, 1973, Chap. 3. M. G. Fontana and N. D. Greene, Corrosion Engineering, McGraw Hill, 1967, Chaps. 2 and 3. J. C. Scully, The Fundamentals of Corrosion, 2nd edition, Pergamon Press, 1975, Chap. 2. Smithells Metals Reference Book, 7th edition, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1992 (for data). 

Smithells Metals Referenee Book, 7th edition, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1992 (for data on steels). British Standards Institution, BS 5400,1980 Steel, Conerete and Composite Bridges. Part 10 Code of Praetiee for Fatigue. 

Smithell s Metals Reference Book. 6th ed., edited by E. Brandes (Butterworths, London, 1983). 

Values of P/MUi are tabulated by Holland (44), but wre provide in Table III further values ( calculated from data in Smithells (45) ] which enable us to discuss some recent observations on the preparation of alloy films, most of which were used in catalytic experiments. 

Holland, L., Vacuum Deposition of Thin Films. Chapman Hall, London, 1960. 4B. Smithells, C. J., (Ed.) Metals Reference Book, 4th Ed., Vol. 1. Butterworth, London, 1967. 

The chemists frenzy over transmutation perhaps reached its peak at the meeting of the Chemical Society on February 6, 1913, at which Ramsay discussed his experiments and Collie and Patterson read papers on the alleged formation of neon and helium due to electricity discharged through hydrogen at low pressure. Professor Arthur Smithells, FRS (1860-1939), of the University of Leeds left an unpublished record of that meeting and of the gathering... 

He then alluded to his experiments on the evolution of helium from the glass of an aged x-ray bulb. He said that he did no more than acknowledge a fact. (Smithells 1913, emphasis mine)... 

Smithells was a significant chemist of the period, having studied with Bunsen at Heidelberg, served as professor of Chemistry at Yorkshire College (which became the University of Leeds in 1904) since 1885, and enjoyed membership in the Royal Society since 1901 (he was to serve as vice president of the Royal Society in 1916). He had even served as president of the prestigious Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society from 1902 to 1904. His personal account reveals what the official records of the Chemical Society cannot—the intensity of the emotions felt by the chemists around the issue of... 

Prof. Smithells opened the discussion by saying that he was somewhat breathless at the papers they had heard. It required a great deal of courage for scientific workers to bring forward such results, and they must admire it. Their courage, he thought, was justified, for their experimental record was such as to justify what in others would have been extremely rash. He paid a generous tribute to the care and patience with which Mr. Patterson had conducted the experiments in his laboratory at Leeds. Of the work of Prof. Collie and Sir... 

Smithells moved that the thanks of the Society he given to the authors, to whom they felt a great obligation, for their momentous communication. (Scientific American Supplement 1913, 155)... 

Thomson s correct explanation—like Soddy s, that the gases were occluded in the metal of the anodes (1913, 645-46)—did not dampen the chemists enthusiasm for their efforts. Smithells, though, had sounded a small and, as it turns out, entirely correct note of caution, saying that The obvious criticism was that in the work enormous weight had necessarily heen laid on spectroscopic evidence, and his limited experience in this connection had taught him caution, but he felt sure that the authors were too experienced to fall into such pitfalls (Scientific American Supplement 1913, 155). 

Schorlemmer, Carl. 1889. The Rise and Development of Organic Chemistry. Rev. ed., edited by Arthur Smithells. London Macmillan, 1894. 

Smithells, Arthur. [1913.] The researches on the transformation of elements at University College London. From a note by Professor A. Smithells. [Morris Travers writes Copy, original returned to Smithells ]. Sir William Ramsay Papers, University College London. Vol. XV, Part II, 274. 

I also wish to thank the Bodleian Library at Oxford University for permission to do research in the Frederick Soddy Papers in their Modem Manuscripts collections, and the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford University, for permission to work with Soddy s lecture notes and papers in their archives. I thank University College London, Special Collections, for permission to do research in the Sir William Ramsay Papers. I also thank the special collections librarians at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, for access to H. G. Wells s papers, and the University of Texas at Austin Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center for access to Edith Sitwell s papers. Frances Soar of the Geographical Association, the administrators of the Frederick Soddy Tmst, and Maxwell Wright and Gwen Huntley of Bunkers Solicitors generously helped me in my efforts to track down an estate for Frederick Soddy s unpublished writings. And I wish to thank Mark Smithells and the Smithells family in New Zealand for permission to quote from Arthur Smithells s unpublished manuscript in the Frederick Soddy Papers. 

Ingold quickly found a valuable colleague in H. M. Dawson, who had studied at Manchester with Arthur Smithells and in Germany with van t Hoff, K. Elbs, and Abegg. Thermodynamics and kinetics were Dawson s principal interests "Dawson taught me a lot of physical chemistry in a quiet way, and I became very interested in his attempts to sort out the kinetic effects of the constitutents of electrolytic solutions," Ingold later reminisced. 15... 

Smithells, C. J. 1937. Cases and Metals. John Wiley Sons, New York. 

Smithells RW, Sheppard S. Teratogenicity testing in humans a method demonstrating safety of Bendectin. Teratology 1978 17 31-6. 

J. Evershed, and A. Smithells confirmed and extended these experiments the former added ... 

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