The origin of radioactivity : from solvable problem to unsolved non-problem / Helge Kragh.
Abstract:
'As documented in the present paper, there was considerable interest in explaining radioactivity in terms of atomic models in the period from about 1903 to 1913. A historical analysis of these attempts makes up the bulk of this paper.'
Archive for history of exact sciences Vol. 50 (1997), p. 331-358