‎Physique‎

‎"BELL, M. A. GRAHAM.‎

‎De la production du son par l'energie radiante. - [FIRST FRENCH PUBLICATION OF BELL'S PHOTOPHONE]‎

‎Paris, Imprimerie Gauthier-Villars, 1881. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Two small stamps on verso of title-page, and one on verso of last plate. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", Cinquiéme Series - Tome XXIII. 576 pp. + 3 plates. G. Bell's paper: pp. 397-432, pp. and 14 figures of experimental apparatus etc. The entiree volume offered. Fine and clean copy.‎

‎First publication of the first French translation of Bell's ""On the Production and Reproduction of Sound by Light: the Photophone"", originally published in 1880. The device allowed for the transmission of sound on a beam of light, and Bell himself regarded this, not the telephone, to be his most important invention.""In the importance of the principles involved, I regard the photophone as the greatest invention I have ever made"" greater than the telephone."" Bell said in a 1921 interview. The photophone was the world's first wireless telephone communication and thereby anticipated Marconi's invention with several years.The first successful attempts were based upon the properties of selenium: ""The electric resistance of which varies with the degree of illumination to which it is exposed. Hence, given a transmitting instrument, such as a flexible mirror, by which the vibrations of a sound could throw into vibrations a beam of light, a receiver, consisting of sensitive selenium, forming part of an electric circuit with a battery and a telephone, should suffice to translate the varying intensities of light into corresponding varying intensities of electric current, and finally into vibrations of the telephone disk audible once more as sound."" (Prescott, George. Bell's Electric Speaking Telephone. 313 p.).Bell was so excited by his invention and its possibilities that he proposed that his second daughter should bear the name of the invention: Photophone. Fortunately for her, her mother was not quite as enthusiastic about the invention.‎

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‎"BECQUEREL, EDMOND.‎

‎Des Lois du Dégagement de la Chaleur pendant le Passage des Courants électriques a Travers les Corps solides et liquides. (+) Des Effets produits sur les Corps par les Rayons solaires. (2 Papers).‎

‎Paris, Victor Masson et Cie, 1843. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 3e Series - Tome IX. 512 pp. and 4 folded engraved plates. (The entire volume offered). Becquerel's papers: pp. 21-70 a. pp. 257-322. Some scattered browspots and foxing.‎

‎First appearance of two importent papers on heat, electricity and light. In the first paper he showed that Joule’s law governing the production of heat in the passage of an electrical current applied to liquids as well as to solids and in the second paper he revealed in the presence of Fraunhofer lines in photographs of the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum by spectroscopy. Earlier he had shown that rays at the red end of the spectrum reinforced or continued the chemical action initiated by rays at the violet end. He also demonstrated that phosphorescence was stimulated in different substances by specific frequencies of light and that at some frequencies the phosphorescent glow seemed to stop immediately after the cutting off of incident light rays.‎

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‎"BETHE, H. A. (+) J. R. OPPENHEIMER (+) G. M. VOLKOFF (+) RICHARD TOLMAN.‎

‎Energy Production in Stars (+) On Massive Neutron Cores (+) Neutron Stars and the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkov Limit. - [HANS BETHE'S NOBEL PRIZE WINNING PAPER AND GENERAL RELATIVISTIC THEORY OF STELLAR STRUCTURE]‎

‎[Lancaster], American Institute of Physics, 1939. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary full red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Entire volume of ""The Physical Review"", Volume 55, Second Series, January 1 - June 15, 1939. ""Development Department"" in small gilt lettering to lower part of spine. A very fine and clean copy. [Bethe:] Pp. 434-456. [Oppenheimer & Volkoff:] Pp. 374-381. [Entire volume: 1300 pp.].‎

‎First printing of ""ENERGY PRODUCTION IN STARS"", Hans Bethe's seminal Nobel Prize winning paper on neucleosynthesis. It was the first time an astrophysical subject was recognized by the Nobel Committee. Bethe's work on nuclear reactions led him to discover the reactions that supply the energy in stars. In this paper, Bethe shows that ""the most important source of energy in ordinary stars is the reactions of carbon and nitrogen with protons"" (Bethe, Energy Production in Stars). Bethe began by analyzing the different possibilities for reactions by which hydrogen is fused into helium. He showed two processes to be the sources of energy generation capable of keeping stars hot. The first, the proton-proton chain, is the dominant energy source in stars with masses up to about the mass of the Sun. The second, the carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle, is the most important in more massive stars. ""ON MASSIVE NEUTRON CORES"" and NEUTRON STARS AND THE TOLMAN-OPPENHEIMER-VOLKOV LIMIT, two landmark papers which ""for the first time laid a general relativistic theory of stellar structure"" (Pais, Subtle is the Lord), thereby proving Einstein wrong in his conclusion that no star could collapse indefinitely.In the paper they addressed the question that Landau's paper, and also Oppenheimer and Serber's, had failed to consider: what is the maximum mass for stable neutron-star? This paper applied Tolman's method to calculate the gravitational equilibrium of a neutron star and predict the conditions under which it will continue collapsing into a black hole (the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkov Limit). The issue contain several other papers of interest: 1. Tolman, Richard. ""Static Solutions of Einstein's Field Equations for Spheres of Fluid"" - This paper developed a method for applying Einstein's field equations to static spheres of fluid in such a manner as to facilitate the development of exact solutions using known analytic functions)"" Jenkins and Segre's ""Quadratic Zeeman Effect"" and ""Zeeman Effect of the Forbidden Lines of Potassium"" .2. Gamow & Teller. ""On the Origin of Great Nebulae"". 3. Seaborg & Segre. ""Nuclear Isomerism in Element 43"" 4. Gentner & Segre. ""Appendix on the Calibration of the Ionization Chamber"". 5. Bethe. ""On the Absence of Polarization in Electron Scattering"" & ""Meson Theory of Nuclear Forces.""‎

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‎"BECQUEREL, HENRI.‎

‎Influence d'un champ magnétique sur le rayonnement des corps radio-actifs. (Séance du Lundi 11 Decembre 1899).‎

‎(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1899. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 129, No 24. pp. (985-) 1047. (Entire issue offered). Becquerel's paper: pp. 996-1001. 1 textillustr. Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of an early importent investigation on the newly (1896) discovered phenomenon of radioactivity.""Toward the end of 1899 (his first report is dated 11 December), he began to investigate the effects on the radiation from radium of magnetic fields in various orientations to the direction of its propagation (in modern terms, the magnetic deflection of the beta rays from shortterm decay products in equilibrium with the radium). In this work he united two descriptive traditions, the magneto optics of his own experience and a line of qualitative studies of the discharge of electricity through gases. He soon moved from these to J. J. Thomson’s more radical program of quantitative observations on collimated beams, in which Thomson had shown (1897) that the cathode rays were corpuscular and consisted of streams of swiftly moving, negatively charged particles whose masses were probably subatomic. By 26 March 1900, Becquerel had duplicated those experiments for the radium radiation and had shown that it too consisted of negatively charged ions, moving at 1.6 × 1010 cm./sec. with a ratio of m/e = 10-7 gm./abcoul. Thus Thomson’s ""corpuscles"" (electrons) constituted a part of the radiations of radioactivity."" (DSB).‎

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‎"BECQUEREL, (ANTOINE) HENRI.‎

‎Mesure de la Rotation du Plan de polarisation de la Lumiere sous L'Influence magnétique de la Terre.‎

‎Paris, G. Masson, 1882. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 5e Series, Tome 27. 576 pp. and 5 folded engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Becquerel's paper: pp. 312-347 and 1 folded engraved plate. Textillustrations. (apparatus).‎

‎First apperance of Becquerels first optical paper. Becquerel’s early research was almost exclusively optical. His first extensive investigations dealt with the rotation of plane-polarized light by magnetic fields (the paper offered). He turned next to infrared spectra (in the paper offered), making visual observations by means of the light released from certain phosphorescent crystals under infrared illumination. Becquerel is known for his discovery of radioactivity, for which he received the Nobel Prize for physics jointly with the Curies in 1903, and for other contributions to that field which he made during the halfdozen years when he was most active in it.‎

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‎"BETHE, HANS (+) M. LEON.‎

‎Negative meson absorption in liquid hydrogen.‎

‎Lancaster PA, American Physical Society, 1962. Royal8vo. In the original blue printed wrappers. In ""The Physical Review"", Volume 127, Second Series, Number 2, July 15. A very fine and clean copy. Pp. 636-647. [Entire issue: Pp. 335-670].‎

‎First printing of Bethe's paper on negative meson absorption in liquid hydrogen.‎

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‎"BERNOULLI, DANIEL. - CONSERVATION OF FORCES.‎

‎Nouveau Probleme de Mecanique resolu.‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1746). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in ""Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres"", 1745, tome I. Pp. 54-70 and with halftitlepage to the section.‎

‎First printing of an importent papeer in which Bernoulli gives his solution of the problem of a mass point constrained to slide within a rigid rotating body. His solution was obtained from other principles than Euler, who gave a solution at the same time, obtaining the same result. This paper was translated into German and reprinted in Ostwald’s Klassiker der Exacten Wissenschaften, no. 191.""The principle of areas and an extended version of the principle concerning the conservation of live force, both of which furnished integrals of Newton’s basic equations, were published by Bernoulli, probably with Euler’s assistance, in the Berlin Mémoires in 1745 and 1748. The principle of areas was used and clearly formulated almost simultaneously by Bernoulli and Euler in their treatments of the problem involving the movement of a tube rotating around a fixed point and containing freely moving bodies.!(DSB).The Bernoulli paper comes together with LEONHARD EULER ""De la Force de Percussion et de sa veritable Mesure. Traduit de Latin"" (Percussion and its true measurement), pp. 21-53, but lacking the plate. (Enestroem: E 82). An importent on the forces of percussions.‎

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‎"BETHE, H. A.‎

‎Range-Energy Relation for Slow Alpha-Particles and Protons in Air.‎

‎Lancaster, American Physical Society, 1950. Lex8vo. Entire volume in the original printed orange wrappers. Minor miscolouring to front wrapper, otherwise a fine and clean copy. [Bethe:] Pp. 212-19. [Entire issue: 119-219 pp].‎

‎First printing of Bethe's much used paper which sums the research within Slow Alpha-Particles. In an interview Bethe was asked:""INTERVIEWER: It[The present paper] is certainly bringing every- thing up to date and making some corrections, and also it apparently is the first Reviews of Modern Physics paper since the three articles in the thirties. So it is significant in that double sense. I would like to ask if I am right in my interpretation of this kind of mediating service role, and whether you were conscious about playing that role, and what led up to this 1950 version of it?BETHE: I was very conscious of it and I think I had become even more conscious at Los Alamos where this was a very essential function to perform, to give something to the experimenters that was really useful and derived from the theory. I have felt that all the time. I felt also the obligation of keeping things somewhat organized in the scientific sense, that when people go off on tangents and do something that obviously is not very closely related to the subject, to reemphasize what is the important point in the subject. I think up to the middle of the fifties I was conscious of that role and to some extent was able to do so. Since then, I know I haven't, certainly not in particle physics."" (Interview with Hans A. Bethe by Charles Weiner at Cornell University, May 8, 1972).""Bethe was one of the great physicists of the twentieth century. After the advent of quantum mechanics, in two classic articles published in 1933 in the Handbuch der Physik he detailed the applications of the new quantum theory to atomic and solid state physics. After the discovery of the neutron in 1932 in a series of articles in the Reviews of Modern Physics, he did the same for nuclear physics. In 1938 he formulated the nuclear physics responsible for energy production in stars. During World War II he contributed importantly to the development of radar and of atomic weapons. Because of his involvement in making A- and H-bombs possible, he subsequently devoted considerable efforts in limiting further developments of atomic weaponry and bringing about international agreements for the reduction of extant nuclear weapons and the curtailment of their production and design. He made Cornell University, his base of operation from 1935 until his death, an outstanding center of theoretical physics and a model research community in all branches of physics."" (DSB).‎

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‎"BECQUEREL, EDMOND. - INVENTION OF THE PHOSPHOROSCOPE.‎

‎Recherches sur divers Effets Lumineux qui résultent de l'Action de la Lumiere sur les Corps.(Ce Travail comprend les deux Mémoires présentés à l'Academie des Sciences le 16 novembre 1857 et le 24 Mai 1858). (Premiere-deuxieme Mémoire).‎

‎(Paris, Victor Masson et Fils, 1859). Without wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 3e Series - Tome 55, Cahier Janvier 1861. Pp. 5-128 a. 2 large folded engraved plates (emission-lines and the phosporoscope). The entire issue offered.‎

‎First appearance of Becquerel's first two pioneering studies on lluminiscent phenomena. ""It was in these studies that Becquerel first described the phosphoroscope, an instrument of his own invention consisting of a box sealed with two disks mounted on the same axis and pierced with holes arranged in such a way that light could not at any one time pass through the entire apparatus. By rapidly revolving these perforated disks, an observer could continously view substances in the dark only fractions of a second after they had been exposed to brilliant light"" and by regulating the speed of the revolution of the disks, one could measure the lenght of time that substances continued to glow after the exposure to light. Using this device, Becquerel was able to identify many new phosphorescent substances and to show that the phenomenon G.C. Stokes had named fluorescence in 1852 was in reality only phosphorescence of an extremely short duration....In this manner substances could be analyzed without physical or chemical alteration.""(DSB I, p. 556).Becquerel dis his most importent work in optics on the phenomena of luminescence. In the middle years of the nineteenth century, he virtually monopollized the significant discoveries made inthis field.(DSB).‎

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‎"BECQUEREL, HENRI. - ESTABLISHING THE CONNEXTION BETWEEN ROTATORY POWERS AND MAGNETISM.‎

‎Recherches expérimentales sur la polarisation rotatoire magnétique.‎

‎Paris, G. Masson, 1877. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 5e Series,Tome 12. - 576 pp. a. 1 folded plate. (The entire volume offered). Becquerel's paper: pp. 5-87.‎

‎First edition of Henri Becquerel's importent study of the magnetic substances in which he sets forth his discovery that ""the magnetic rotation of the bodies is connected with their refractive index and with another function that varies with their specific magnetism"". For the first time it was showed that there is a connexion between the rotatory power and the magnetic properties of matter.The volume contains other importent papers, more than 10 papers by , MARCELLIN BERTHELOT, mainly on Thermo-Chemistry.‎

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‎"BETHE, H. A. & E. E. SALPETER.‎

‎Relativistic Equation for Bound-State Problems. - [THE BETHE-SALPETER EQUATION]‎

‎Lancaster, American Institute of Physics, 1951. Lex8vo. Volume 84, December 15, No. 6, 1951 of ""The Physical Review"", Second Series. Entire volume offered in the original printed blue wrappers. Previous owner's stamp to front wrapper. Minor wear to extremities and a bit of discolouring to spine and extremities. Front wrapper with light tie-markings after having been bundled and tied. Fine and clean. Pp. 1232-1242. [Entire issue: Pp. 1079-1286, iii-x].‎

‎First publication of the influential and groundbreaking description (the detailed description including the derivation) of the Bethe-Salpeter equation. Due to its generality, it has been used in nearly all branches of theoretical physics and has been presented in many different forms. In general, the theory describes the bound states of a two-body quantum field theoretical system in a relativistically covariant formalism. In Early 1951, Bethe and Salpeter published a paper in which they introduced the concept of the Bethe-Salpeter equation but had not made the final calculations and derivations. This paper presents the theory including the derivation and is therefore known as the first documented publication of the theory.‎

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‎"BERNOULLI, DANIEL. - CONSERVATION OF 'VIS VIVA'‎

‎Remarques sur le Principe de la Conservation des Forces Vives pris dans un sens General.‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1750). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in ""Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres"", 1748, tome IV, Titlepage to the volume in red/black with engraved titlevignette a. pp. 356-364. A stamp on titlepage.c‎

‎First printing of this memoir. In various connections Bernoulli used the principle of the coservation of 'Vis Viva' within the main areas of mechanics. ""Similarly, in an essay (1747) on the motion of a heavenly body and the three-body problem he worked out from the first integral of Newton’s second law, which related the square of its velocity to, in effect, its level of potential under attraction. In a sequel study (1750, the paper offered) on the generality of the principle he included the case where the body was acted upon by more than one centre of force. This was a most unusual way of working within celestial mechanics"" Newton had rarely invoked energy equations or relationships, although he had also found results about external attraction and equipotential surfaces.""(I. Grattan-Guiness).‎

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‎"BERNOULLI, JEAN.‎

‎Sur la Cohérence des Corps, Second (- Troisieme) Mémoire. (I. Problemes sur la Force et la Courbure des Lames élastiques. II. Problemes sur la Résistance des Poutres.).‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1768). 4to. No wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres"", tome XXII, pp. 99-107 a. 1 folded engraved plate + pp. 108-116 a. 2 folded engraved plates.‎

‎First appearance of two importent papers in the theory of elasticity of materials in which Bernoulli gives, for the first time, the solution to a main problem, and stating a formula which expresses the shape of the loaded beam without reference to the load acting or to the elastic properties of the materials.‎

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‎"BECQUEREL, HENRI - THE FIRST EVIDENCE OF A RADIOACTIVE TRANSFORMATION.‎

‎Sur la radioactivité de l'uranium.‎

‎(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1901. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 133, No 24.. Pp. (969-) 1044. (Entire issue offered). Becquerel's paper: pp. 977-980.‎

‎First appearance of this historical paper in which Becquerel relates THE FIRST EVIDENCE OF A RADIOACTIVE TRANSFORMATION. ""Nothing that Becquerel subsequently accomplished (after his discovery of radioactivity in 1896) was as important as this discovery, by which he opened the way to nuclear physics. Nevertheless, there were two other occasions on which he stood directly on the path of history: when he identified electrons in the radiations of radium (1899 - 1900) and when he published the first evidence of a radioactive transformation (1901). (The paper offered).""(DSB).""To prove his supposition that the uranium would recover its activity, Becquerel set aside some of the inactive uranium solution and its radioactive barium sulfate precipitate for a period of 18 months. Late in 1901, he found that the uranium had completely regained its activity, whereas the barium sulfate precipitate had become completely inactive. Becquerel wrote: ""The loss of activity ... shows that the barium has not removed the essentially active and permanent part of the uranium. This fact constitutes, then, a strong presumption in favor of the existence of an activity peculiar to uranium, although it is not proved that the metal be not intimately united with another very active product.""‎

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‎"BECQUEREL, HENRI.‎

‎Sur la lois de la décharge dans l'air de l'uranium électrisé.‎

‎(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1897. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 124, No 15. Pp. (797-) 838. (Entire issue offered). Becquerel's paper: pp. 800-803.‎

‎First printing. In 1896 Becquerel made his landmark discovery of radioactivity and in this follow-up paper he further established some of the properties of the radiation so that it could be identified unambiguously.‎

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‎"BECQUEREL, HENRI. - NAMING ""URANIUM RAYS""‎

‎Sur diverses propriétés des rayons uraniques.‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1896. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 123,, No 21. Pp. (771-) 854. (Entire issue offered). Fabry and Perot's paper: pp. 802-805.‎

‎First printing of one of Becquerel's importent papers relating to his discovery of radioactivity this same year. Here he confirms that uranium salts emits some forms of radiation and these rays he names ""rayons uraniques"" (URANIUM RAYS)‎

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‎"BETHE, H. A.‎

‎Theorie der beugung von elektronen an kristallen. - [BETHE'S DOCTORAL THESIS]‎

‎Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1928. 8vo. In contemporary full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 87. Entire volume offered. Library labels pasted on the pasted down front free end paper. Stamp to title page, othrewise a fine copy. Pp. 55-129 [Entire volume: (1), 736, VII pp.].‎

‎First appearance of Bethe's important doctoral thesis on the theory electron diffraction by nickel crystals which remains of fundamental value in understanding observational data. ""Bethe obtained his doctorate-summa cum laude-in 1928 with a thesis that analyzed and explained the results that Clinton Joseph Davisson and Lester Germer had obtained in their experiments on electron diffraction by nickel crystals. When the de Broglie wave length of electrons is comparable to the lattice spacings of a crystal they diffract in a manner similar to x-rays. Bethe made use of the methods that von Laue and Ewald had formulated for x-ray diffraction by crystals and found that their results could readily and successfully be adapted to the electron case."" (DSB).""Bethe was one of the great physicists of the twentieth century. After the advent of quantum mechanics, in two classic articles published in 1933 in the Handbuch der Physik he detailed the applications of the new quantum theory to atomic and solid state physics. After the discovery of the neutron in 1932 in a series of articles in the Reviews of Modern Physics, he did the same for nuclear physics. In 1938 he formulated the nuclear physics responsible for energy production in stars. During World War II he contributed importantly to the development of radar and of atomic weapons. Because of his involvement in making A- and H-bombs possible, he subsequently devoted considerable efforts in limiting further developments of atomic weaponry and bringing about international agreements for the reduction of extant nuclear weapons and the curtailment of their production and design. He made Cornell University, his base of operation from 1935 until his death, an outstanding center of theoretical physics and a model research community in all branches of physics."" (DSB).‎

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‎"BETHE, H.‎

‎Zur Theorie der Metalle. - [THE BETHE ANSATZ]‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1931. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering, In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Band 71, 1931. Entire volume offered. Library stamp to title page and a three cm tear to upper front hindge, otherwise fine. Pp. 205-226. [Entire volume : VII, (1), 823 pp.].‎

‎First appearance of Bethe's paper containing his famous and much used method for finding the exact solutions of certain one-dimensional quantum many-body models. Bethe here found the exact eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the one-dimensional antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model Hamiltonian. Since then the method has been extended to other models in one dimension: Bose gas, Hubbard model, etc.‎

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‎"BECK, GUIDO.‎

‎Über die Systematik der Isotopen. - [ANTICIPATION OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE NEUTRON]‎

‎Berlin, Julius Springer, 1928. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering, In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Band 47, 1928. Entire issue offered. Two stamps to title page, otherwise fine. Pp. 407-16 + one folded table. [Entire volume: VII, (1), 914 pp.].‎

‎First printing of Beck's important paper in which he anticipates the discovery of the neutron by four years, a seminal contribution to the discovery of the nuclear shell model. In 1914, Moseley introduced the periodic table and in 1925, Pauli explained the periodicity by enumerating the electrons fitting in shells surrounding the atomic nucleus.""It became apparent that there are, in general, several different isotopes per element. [...] This was a problem of nuclear physics since isotopes of the same element differ only by their isotopes. A first attempt was made in late 1927 by Beck [the present paper] in Vienna, who compiled a comprehensive table of known isotopes [...] The paper written more than four years before the discovery of the neutron, is remarkable not so much for its results but for two nearly prophetic statements:"" (Brandt. The Harvest of a Century, p. 317). The prophetic statements in the present paper are: 1. ""Die einfachste Annahme, die man diesbezüglich machen kann, ist, dass man sich die Kerne, analog wie die Elektronenhülle der Atome, schalenförmig aufgebaut denkt."" (i.e. The simplest assumption one can make in this respect it to imagine nuclei, in analogy to the electron hull of atoms, to be built up of shell).2. ""Die Gesetzmässligkeiten der Tabellen lassen aber hoffer, dass das Pauliprinzipund der Spin sich auch auf dem Gebiet der Kerne als Wegweiser bewähren werden."" (i.e. The regularities [observed in the table of isotopes] allow to hope that the Pauli principle and the spin will prove of value as guideposts also in the field of nuclei.).‎

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‎"BECK, GUIDO.‎

‎Über die Systematik der Isotopen. - [ANTICIPATION OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE NEUTRON]‎

‎Berlin, Julius Springer, 1928. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering, In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Band 47, 1928. Entire issue offered. Two stamps to title page, otherwise fine. Pp. 407-16 + one folded table. [Entire volume: VII, (1), 914 pp.].‎

‎"BECQUEREL, (ANTOINE) HENRI.‎

‎Mémoire sur L'Étude des Radiations Infra-Rouges au Moyen des Phénomenes de phosphorescence.‎

‎Paris, G. Masson, 1883. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 5e Series, Tome 30. 576 pp. and 3 folded engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Becquerel's paper pp. 5-68 and 1 folded engraved plate.‎

‎"BECQUEREL, EDMOND.‎

‎Des Lois du Dégagement de la Chaleur pendant le Passage des Courants électriques a Travers les Corps solides et liquides. (+) Des Effets produits sur les Corps par les Rayons solaires. (2 Papers).‎

‎Paris, Victor Masson et Cie, 1843. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 3e Series - Tome IX. 512 pp. and 4 folded engraved plates. (The entire volume offered). Becquerel's papers: pp. 21-70 a. pp. 257-322. Some scattered browspots and foxing.‎

‎"BECQUEREL, EDMOND. - INVENTION OF THE PHOSPHOROSCOPE.‎

‎Recherches sur divers Effets Lumineux qui résultent de l'Action de la Lumiere sur les Corps.(Ce Travail comprend les deux Mémoires présentés à l'Academie des Sciences le 16 novembre 1857 et le 24 Mai 1858). (Premiere-deuxieme Mémoire).‎

‎(Paris, Victor Masson et Fils, 1859). Without wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 3e Series - Tome 55, Cahier Janvier 1861. Pp. 5-128 a. 2 large folded engraved plates (emission-lines and the phosporoscope). The entire issue offered.‎

‎"BECQUEREL, HENRI - THE FIRST EVIDENCE OF A RADIOACTIVE TRANSFORMATION.‎

‎Sur la radioactivité de l'uranium.‎

‎(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1901. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 133, No 24.. Pp. (969-) 1044. (Entire issue offered). Becquerel's paper: pp. 977-980.‎

‎"BECQUEREL, HENRI.‎

‎Note sur quelques propriétés du rayonnement de l'uranium et des corps radio-actifs.‎

‎(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1899. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 128, No 13. Pp. (753-) 852. (Entire issue offered). Becquerel's paper: pp. 771-777.‎