Anonymous — Henry Herbert Wills Physics Laboratory

Bristol, University of Bristol, 1927 . First edition. Paperback. The University of Bristol's very scarce publication celebrating the formal opening of the Henry Herbert Wills Physics Laboratory on October 21st, 1927. Illustrated with seven tipped in photographic plates, and five vignette floor plans. Collated, complete.This impressive laboratory was opened by the Nobel Prize winning father of nuclear physics, Sir Ernest Rutherford, in October of 1927, and was funded by Bristolian businessman and philanthropist Henry Herbert Wills, a member of the Wills tobacco family.Along with his brother Sir George Alfred Wills, he was responsible for the building of the impressive neo-gothic Wills Memorial Building, a landmark building of Bristol University, in memory of his father, opened in 1925. In the publisher's original paper covered wraps. Externally, exceptionally bright. Light shelf wear to back strip tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright, with the odd area of light spotting. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .