Physique

Photo-Electricity

1914Best.-Nr. 036009Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1914. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Viii 144 Pp Catalog At End Dated 5/14. Green Cloth Gilt. A Very Near Fine Example Cloth Clean And Entirely Unfaded Gilt Brilliant No Wear To Pages Some Browning To Endpapers Ownership Signature Of An Engineer/Physicist On Front Pastedown. Hughes Went Cavendish Laboratory At Cambridge Where He Studied Under J.J. Thomson Who Had Won The Nobel Prize In Physics In 1906. It Was At Cambridge That Hughes Carried Out What Some Consider His Finest Scientific Work Proving The Validity Of Einstein's Theory Of The Photoelectric Effect. In 1912 He Accepted A Teaching Position At The Newly-Founded Rice Institute In Texas. When World War I Broke Out Hughes Returned To England To Work On Anti-Submarine Devices. Shortly After The War He Left Rice To Take A Research Professorship At Queen's College In Ontario From Which He Was Called To St. Louis By Compton In 1923. For 15 Months In World War Ii Hughes Served As Assistant Director Of The Los Alamos Atomic Energy Project Acting As Recruiting Officer. In An Interview "I Never Saw Such A Collection Of Top Notch Scientists In My Life" He Said "And As You Probably Know Our Whole Chemistry Department Was Brought Lock Stock And Barrel From Los Alamos. I Think Six Of Those Men Are Still Here." "The Big Job Was To Persuade Scientists To Come To Los Alamos Without Telling Them What Was Going On. When I Arrived There Were 250 People In All Scientists And Technicians. When I Left 15 Months Later There Were About 3000." I Asked Hughes About Changes He Has Seen In Physics. "When I Came Here" He Said "We Were Rather Pedestrian In Our Attitude Toward Physics. I Suppose That Attitude Was Rather World-Wide Back Then. We Took Summer Vacations Because There Was No Paid Work To Be Done Then. Now No One Takes Long Vacations. Before World War Ii Physicists Were Hardly Known In Industry. Any Job Was Likely To Be In Teaching Or In Government Re Search. Nowadays Physicists Have Become Acceptable People." His Photoelectric Phenomena Published In 1933 With Dubridge Remained The Standard Work On The Subject Until 1959 When It Went Out Of Print. Cambridge University Press hardcover

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