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1930rif. 047870Cambridge: University Press 1930. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. X 163 Pp. Maroon Cloth Gilt. First Printing. A Fine Progressive Physical Explanation With Appropriate Mathematics. Near Fine Gilt Brilliant No Fading Or Stains Slight Rubbing At Corners Ownership Signature. Dust Jacket Near Fine Internally Reinforced On Upper And Lower Edges With Archival Tape No Show-Through. University Press hardcover
1988rif. 055930New York / Oxford: Oxford University Press 1988. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Ix 192 Pp. First Printing. No Wear But Writing On Top And Bottom Edges Of Page Block Dense Pencil Marginalia In First 16 Pages. Dust Jacket FineNo Wear Slight Yellowing Of Flaps. Oxford University Press hardcover
2000rif. 046543ETH-Bibliothek 2000. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 127 Pp. First Printing. Near Fine. With A Signed One Page Letter From Unser In GermanTo Professor Jan Korringer Formerly Chief Assistant To Kramers Discussing And Presenting The Book And A Two Page Draft Handwritten Letter In English From Korringa To Unser Discussing His Personal Encounters With Pauli. ETH-Bibliothek paperback
1950rif. 035657New York: Prentice-Hall Inc. 1950. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Black Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine DJ. Photographs. Xiv 311 Pp. Black Cloth Gilt. First Edition Stated. Bright Clean Book Browning To Front Endpapers From Loose Newspaper Clippings Of His Rites In 1953; Faint Lending Library Stamp On Front Free Endpaper. Bright Clean Dj With Traces Of Wear At Corners 1/8" Chip Top Of Front Flap Fold And 1/16" Chip Top Of Rear Spine Fold. Prentice-Hall, Inc. hardcover
1950rif. 021633Oxford: Oxford / Clarendon Press 1950. Second Edition Corrected 1st Printing. Blue Cloth. Very Good/Very Good DJ. Xii 393 Pp. Bright And Clean Hinges Tight Ownership Signature Of Physicist David Murray Heinz No Other Names Or Marks. Dj Lightly Used 1/4"L Chips At Top And Bottom Of Spine Tiny Loss At Corners Price-Clipped. Oxford / Clarendon Press hardcover
1970rif. 036907New York: American Institute Of Physics For The American Physical Society 1970 1971 1970. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 3 Softcover Issues Each Containing Index For 6 Months. Original Blue-Green Wrappers. Fine. American Institute Of Physics For The American Physical Society 1970 1971 paperback
1965rif. 036902New York: American Institute Of Physics For The American Physical Society 1965. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 4 Softcover Issues Each Containing The Index For 3 Months. Original Blue-Green Wrappers. Fine. American Institute Of Physics For The American Physical Society paperback
1949rif. 041829New York: Philosophical Library 1949. First English Language Edition Printing Unknown. Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good. 192 Pp. Blue Pebbled Cloth Gilt. Early American Printing Of This First English Language Edition Philosophical Library Does Not Indicate Printings And There Is No Descriptive Bibliography Identifying Them. Light Wear Very Good Former Owner's Name Under Front Flap; Gilt Brilliant. Dust Jacket With Light Usage No Price On Front Flap 16 Titles On Rear Panel Including This One Priced At $3.75 Including Titles Published In 1950. Philosophical Library hardcover
1925rif. 027620New York: Harper & Brothers 1925. First American Edition First or early Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 231 Pp. First American Edition First Or Early Printing Code "I-Z" For September 1925 On Copyright Page And 1925 Date On Title Page. The Philosophical Re-Thinking Required By The Concept Of Relativity; Non-Mathematical. Light Wear Not Frayed Hinges Intact Gilt On Bottom Of Publisher's Name Worn Away. No Names Or Marks. Harper & Brothers hardcover
1920rif. 035712New York: Oxford University Press 1920. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Xi 89 Pp. A Philosophical Rather Than Mathematical Introduction Prepared With Some Specific Advice From Einstein.Exceptionally Well Preserved No Fading Or Marks No Wear But Traces Of Rubbing At Corners Gilt Still Brilliant. This Example With The Original Purchase Receipt For This Book From The Oxford University Press Dated June 22 1920. Oxford University Press hardcover
1999rif. 0156021999. Original Manuscript . No Binding. Very Good. Neatly Handwritten Manuscript By An Instructor At Caltech About 120 Pp.With A Transmittal Letter 2 Pp To Prof. Mendel Sachs And His Lengthy E-Mail Reply. Mendel Sachs 1927 -2012 Was An American Theoretical Physicist. His Scientific Work Includes The Proposal Of A Unified Field Theory That Brings Together The Weak Force Strong Force Electromagnetism And Gravity. Sachs Earned His Bachelors At The University Of California Los Angeles He Then Moved To Columbia University New York For Postgraduate Study. While At Columbia Sachs Was Taught By Willis Lamb And Hideki Yukawa.5 Yukawa Had Agreed To Be Sach's Thesis Advisor But Sachs Decided To Complete His Doctorate Back At Ucla. Following The Award Of His Phd In 1954 Sachs First Post-Doctoral Position Was At The New University Of California Radiation Laboratory At Both Berkeley And Livermore Which Was Run By Edward Teller And Ernest Lawrence And Was Also Home To Bryce Dewitt Who Sachs Would Later Co-Author Articles With In Physics Today. In 1956 Sachs Became A Senior Scientist At Lockheed Missiles And Space Laboratory While At Lockheed Sachs Began Developing With Solomon Schwebel A Field Theory Of Quantum Electrodynamics That Included Broken Symmetries That Did Not Require Recourse To Renormalization Or Perturbation Techniques - The "Schwebel-Sachs" Model. In 1961 He Became A Research Professor At Mcgill University; This Was Followed By A Post As Associate Professor Of Physics At Boston University 1962-1966. In 1964 While At Boston University Sachs Received An Invitation From Paul Dirac To Visit Cambridge University. Sachs Stayed In England For Three Months Where His Wife Yetty Had Family. Sachs Worked With Paul Dirac At The Department Of Applied Mathematics And Theoretical Physics Cambridge University. While Working With Dirac Sachs Also Had The Opportunity To Discuss Ideas With John G. Taylor John Polkinghorne And Graduate Students At Damtp. In 1965 Sachs Had Had A Breakthrough While At The Aspen Physics Institute Colorado. Sachs Was Able To Derive A Result For A Unified Field Theory If Quantum Mechanics Was Considered To Be A Linear Approximation For A Field Theory Of Inertia Expressed In General Relativity. Sachs Argued That The Work Of Albert Einstein And Erwin Schrödinger In General Relativity Did Not Yet Take Account Of The Inertia Of Matter Which Required Consideration Of The Mach Principle. In The Summer Of 1966 Abdus Salam Invited Sachs To Spend A Few Months At The International Centre For Theoretical Physics In Trieste Italy. During This Time Sachs Published The Details Of His Formal Structure Of Quantum Mechanics From A Generally Covariant Field Theory Of Inertia In The Italian Journal Il Nuovo Cimento. In The Autumn Of 1966 He Was Appointed Professor Of Physics At State University Of New York At Buffalo. unknown
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1922rif. 029713New York: Robert M. Mcbride & Co 1922. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Xiv 166 Pp Chart At End. Blue Cloth Lettered In Green. First American Edition Using Sheets Printed In Great Britain. Near Fine Small Owner's Stamp On Front Endpaper No Other Marks Just A Trace Of Rubbing At Top And Bottom Of Spine. Dj Worn 3/4" Square Chip Near Bottom Of Spine Above Publisher's Name 3/16" Loss Across Top Edge Of Spine Panel Small Losses At Corners No Loss Of Lettering. An Early Explanation Of Relativity Non-Mathematical. Robert M. Mcbride & Co hardcover
1987rif. 023944Charlottesville: University of Virginia 1987. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Fine DJ. First Printing. As New In As New Dj. . University of Virginia hardcover
1969rif. 037297New York: Mcgraw-Hill Book Company 1969. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Ix 208 Pp. Brown Cloth Stamped In Gilt And Bronze. First Printing Indicated. Very Good Slight Usage. Ownership Label Of Ucla Professor A. J. A. Morgan And With A Few Of His Underlinings And Marginalia. Mcgraw-Hill Book Company hardcover
1987rif. 037300New York: Springer 1987. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. 191 Pp. Yellow Boards Stamped In Black. First Printing. Fine With Slight Fading To Yellow Cover On Spine. Springer hardcover
1980rif. 049297Farrar Straus Giroux 1979 1980. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. X 406 Pp. Blue Cloth Lettered In Silver. First Printing 1980 Stated. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket Priced $20.00. Advance Copy With The Publisher's Transmittal Letter To A Book Salesman Dated Nov. 30 1979. Carl Friedrich Freiherr Von WeizsäckerA 1912 - 2007 Was A German Physicist And Philosopher. A Member Of The Prominent Weizsäcker Family He Was Son Of The Diplomat Ernst Von Weizsäcker Elder Brother Of The Former German President Richard Von Weizsäcker Father Of The Physicist And Environmental Researcher Ernst Ulrich Von Weizsäcker And Father-In-Law Of The Former General Secretary Of The World Council Of Churches Konrad Raiser. Weizsäcker Made Important Theoretical Discoveries Regarding Energy Production In Stars From Nuclear Fusion Processes. He Also Did Influential Theoretical Work On Planetary Formation In The Early Solar System. In 1938 Weizsäcker Developed A Theory On The Formation Of The Solar System Based On Considerations Regarding The Unequal Share Of Lighter And Heavier Elements In The Sun And The Solar System's Terrestrial Planets. His Views Were Later Generally Acknowledged And Refined By A Large Number Of Other Physicists And Astronomers. According To The Theory The Sun And Its Planets Evolved From A Gas Cloud Made Up Of 99% Hydrogen And Helium And 1% Of Heavier Elements. Some 10% Of The Cloud Remained Around The Sun As An Extensive Atmosphere During An Initial Phase And The 1% Of Heavier Elements Within This 10% Of The Total Mass Of The Cloud Would Tally With The Fraction Of Roughly 1% That The Planets Contribute To The Mass Of The Solar System Today. The Theory Also Helped To Explain The Empirically Observed Regular Pattern Of Increase In The Diameters Of The Orbits Of The Planets Of The Solar System From Inward To Outward. This Result Was A Natural Outcome Of The Increasing Size Of "Planetary Eddies" Of Gas And Dust Farther From The Centre Of The Early Solar System. A Further Implication Of His Theory Was That Many Stars Out In The Universe With Characteristics Similar To The Sun Would Have To Be Expected To Possess Planetary Systems Similar To Our Own. Shortly After The End Of The Second World War In Europe The Russian Émigré American Physicist George Gamow Co-Authored An Influential Paper Supporting Weizsäcker's Work On Planetary Formation In The Early Solar System. In His Late Career He Focused More On Philosophical Ethical And Historical Issues And Was Awarded Several International Honours For His Work In Those Areas. During The Second World War Weizsäcker Joined The German Nuclear Weapons Program Participating In Efforts To Construct An Atomic Bomb While Based At The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute In Berlin. As Early As August 1939 Albert Einstein Warned U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt About This Research And Highlighted That "The Son Of The German Under-Secretary Of State Von Weizsäcker Is Attached To The Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut In Berlin Where Some Of The American Work On Uranium Is Now Being Repeated." As A Protégé Of Werner Heisenberg Weizsäcker Was Present At A Crucial Meeting At The Army Ordnance Headquarters In Berlin On 17 September 1939 At Which The German Atomic Weapons Program Was Launched. Early In The War - Possibly Until 1942 - He Hoped A Successful Nuclear Weapons Project Would Earn Him Political Influence. In July 1940 He Was Co-Author Of A Report To The Army On The Possibility Of "Energy Production" From Refined Uranium. The Report Also Predicted The Possibility Of Using Plutonium For The Same Purpose Including The Production Of A New Type Of Explosives. During Summer 1942 Weizsäcker Filed A Patent On A Transportable "Process To Generate Energy And Neutrons By An Explosion. E.G. A Bomb". The Patent Application Was Found In The 1990S In Moscow. Farrar Straus Giroux 1979 hardcover
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