Talk:Frederick Soddy

message: More tiresome vandalism removed.  It is ALWAYS by unregistered users.  --GwydionM 17:59, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: vandalism

message: This reads like a prank and as such it is a disservice to those who use Wikipedia as a guide. If there is a factual basis for this section is MUST be footnoted and referenced. If not then the section should be deleted. LAWinans (talk) 23:51, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for catching that LAWinans. skip sievert (talk) 01:49, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Football??? 

message: I remember reading Soddy's book on Wealth and being struck by all of the negative language therein about Jews.  Is there a good way to talk about his anti-semitism? Arided (talk) 16:48, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: It would probably be best to find a good source or two for this, and then say that X and Y described Soddy as anti-semitic and explain what they based the claim on. That way Wikipedia preserves its neutral point of view (WP:NPOV), and merely reports what someone else has said.  Dirac66 (talk) 00:47, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  No doubt some quotes in his own words would be effective, but, I do see him mentioned in passing in Pound in Purgatory: From Economic Radicalism to Anti-semitism.  This sort of thing would be useful for describing his "influence" as well. An additonal reference here to "T.S. Eliot and the Major: Sources of Literary Anti-Semitism in the 1930s".  Will investigate as time allows. Arided (talk) 15:03, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  anti-semitism 

message: In The dawn of radiochemistry in Japan By H. K. Yoshihara, tells of Satoyasu Iimori studying radiochemistry under the direction of Soddy in 1921-22, but no mention if it was for a doctorate.DadaNeem (talk) 23:40, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
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message: I am confident that in the particular paragraph there are mistakes in the text. In the paragraph begins with "in 1903", it should be identified as the different experiments done by different scientists in the different times. Ramsay and Soddy only verified that the decay of radium emanation produced helium in 1903. It was not verified until the experiment done by Rutherford and Royds in 1908, that the alpha particles are composed of positively charged nuclei of helium.
*William Ramsay, Frederick Soddy (1903). "Experiments in Radioactivity, and the Production of Helium from Radium". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.72.204 - 207
*Ernest Rutherford, Thomas Royds (1909). "The Nature of the α Particle from Radioactive Substances". Philosophical Magazine.17.281
In addition, the last sentence is not true.  They were Pierre Jansen and Norman Lockyer, who detected helium in the solar spectrum in 1868, instead of Bunsen and Kirchoff. If it is absolutely necessary, the sentence should be rewritten according to the fact as above.
*R. K. Kochhar (1991). "French astronomers in India during the 17th - 19th centuries". Journal of the British Astronomical Association.101(2).99 
It is appreciated to be rewritten the paragraph by anybody as what it should be.--Tatsubou (talk) 05:03, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for noticing these errors and also for finding references. I have now corrected the text as suggested concerning helium from radium. And I decided to delete the mention of helium in the solar spectrum, since by 1903 helium had been discovered in terrestrial sources in 1895, so the 1868 solar observations were already ancient history. Dirac66 (talk) 14:22, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for your prompt response and it is the most preferable thing for me as one of the wikipedians.--Tatsubou (talk) 02:50, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Correction needed

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