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1967rif. PH-19U.K.: Pergamon Press 1967. Comprehensive classic text contains detailed technical papers of a symposium held at Delft The Netherlands September 6-11 1966 presenting over 100 contributions from international reputable scientists covering a broad range of topics including: wave propogation; waveguides; overmoded and beam waveguides; surface waves; propogation in non-linear media; antennas; scattering and diffraction; statistical optics and coherence; etc. 1099 pp In two volumes. Illustrated. A few minor small closed tears on the dustjacket edges; minimal shelfwear. Dustjackets in mylar. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Pergamon Press hardcover
1989rif. PH-117Redwood City CA.: Addison-Wesley 1989. Classic text presents a detailed monograph covering calculations and techniques of perturbative quantum chromodynamics including perturbative predictions for electron-positron annihilations; deep inelastic lepton nucleon scattering; large-mass muon pair production in hadron-hadron collisions; renormalization and the running coupling constant in QCD; production of particles and jets in hadron-hadron collisions; upsilon decay; pion form factor; s-matrix formulas; etc. 366 pgs. Illustrated. Minimal shelfwear. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/ . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Addison-Wesley Hardcover
rif. SONG1563963140Institute of Physics Publishing GB 0000-00-00. 1st ed. 1995. hardcover. Used: Good. 10.16x6.97x7.01. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Institute of Physics Publishing (GB) hardcover
1979rif. PH-2Oxford U.K.: Pergamon Press 1979. Classic comprehensive corrected edition of this two-part set of volume 4 Landau & Lifshitz series contains detailed topics covering photons; bosons; fermions; particles in an external field; radiation; scattering of radiation; scattering matrix; invariant perturbation theory; interaction of electrons and photons; exact propagators and vertex parts; radiative corrections; asymptotic formulae of quantum electrodynamics; dynamic symmetry of hadrons; electrodynamics of hadrons; weak interactions; etc. 616 pgs. collectively. Illustrated. Very minimal shelfwear. ISBN for Part 2 is 0080171753. Corrected Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/ . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pergamon Press Hardcover
rif. PH-342Reading MA.: Addison Wesley/ Pergamon Press 1964. Classic comprehensive text presents detailed topics covering elastic theory of dislocations; motion of dislocations glide; vacancies and interstitial atoms; dislocation climb; imperfect dislocations; crystal growth; dislocation networks; annealing polygonization recrystallization grain boundaries; general properties of dislocations; interactions of dislocations with other defects; formation and motion of impurity clouds; interaction of dislocations with other perturbations of the crystal lattice; creep; cleavage dislocations; etc. 491 pp. Illustrated. Minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/ . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. . Addison Wesley/ Pergamon Press Hardcover
1966rif. 056553New York: Interscience Publishers / John Wiley & Sons 1966. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Xiv 394 Pp. Gray-Green Cloth Printed In Dark Green. First Printing. Near Fine Two Small Name Stamps Of Prominent Physicist Lorenzo Dow Hendrick On Front Endpapers. Remarkably Thorough Experimental And Theoretical History And Analysis. Definitive For The Advanced Student And The Expert. Per Wikipedia Chien-Shiung Wu Chinese: ; Pinyin: Wú Jiànxióng; Wade-Giles: Wu2 Chien4-Hsiung2; 1912 - 1997 Was A Chinese-American Particle And Experimental Physicist Who Made Significant Contributions In The Fields Of Nuclear And Particle Physics. Wu Worked On The Manhattan Project Where She Helped Develop The Process For Separating Uranium Into Uranium-235 And Uranium-238 Isotopes By Gaseous Diffusion. She Is Best Known For Conducting The Wu Experiment Which Proved That Parity Is Not Conserved. This Discovery Resulted In Her Colleagues Tsung-Dao Lee And Chen-Ning Yang Winning The 1957 Nobel Prize In Physics While Wu Herself Was Awarded The Inaugural Wolf Prize In Physics In 1978. Her Expertise In Experimental Physics Evoked Comparisons To Marie Curie. Her Nicknames Include The "First Lady Of Physics" The "Chinese Madame Curie" And The "Queen Of Nuclear Research". After Work On The Manhattan Project During Wwii Wu Accepted An Offer Of A Position As An Associate Research Professor At Columbia. She Would Remain At Columbia For The Rest Of Her Career And Was First Named Associate Professor In 1952 Which Made Her The First Woman To Become A Tenured Physics Professor In University History. In November 1949 Wu Experimented With The Conclusions Of Einstein's Epr Thought Experiment Which Called Quantum Entanglement "Spooky Action At A Distance". Wu Was The First To Establish The Phenomenon And Validity Of Entanglement Using Photons Through Observing Angular Correlation As Her Result Confirmed Maurice Pryce And John Clive Ward's Calculations On The Correlation Of The Quantum Polarizations Of Two Photons Propagating In Opposite Directions. Specifically The Experiment Carried Out By Wu Was The First Important Confirmation Of Quantum Results Relevant To A Pair Of Entangled Photons As Applicable To The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Epr Paradox. Her 1950 Letter To Physical Review Famously Identified Confirmation Of Wheeler's Ideas On Entanglement. Tsung-Dao Lee And Another Chinese Theoretical Physicist Chen Ning Yang Grew To Question A Hypothetical Law Of Elementary Particle Physics The "Law Of Conservation Of Parity". Lee And Yang Worked Out A Pencil-And-Paper Design Of An Experiment For Testing Conservation Of Parity In The Laboratory. Because Of Her Expertise In Choosing And Then Working Out The Hardware Manufacture Set-Up And Laboratory Procedures Wu Then Informed Lee That She Could Carry Out The Experiment. Wu Chose To Do This By Taking A Sample Of Radioactive Cobalt-60 And Cooling It To Cryogenic Temperatures With Liquid Gases. Cobalt-60 Is An Isotope That Decays By Beta Particle Emission And Wu Was Also An Expert On Beta Decay. The Discovery Of Parity Violation Was A Major Contribution To Particle Physics And The Development Of The Standard Model. The Discovery Actually Set The Stage For The Development Of The Model As The Model Relied On The Idea Of Symmetry Of Particles And Forces And How Particles Can Sometimes Break That Symmetry.The Wide Coverage Of Her Discovery Prompted The Discoverer Of Fission Otto Frisch To Mention That Those At Princeton Would Often Say That Her Experiment Was The Most Impactful Since The Michelson-Morley Experiment That Inspired Einstein's Theory Of Relativity. In December 1962 Wu Experimentally Demonstrated A Universal Form And More Accurate Version Of Fermi's Old Beta Decay Model Confirming The Conserved Vector Current Cvc Hypothesis Of Richard Feynman And Murray Gell-Mann On The Road To The Standard Model. Interscience Publishers / John Wiley & Sons hardcover
1896rif. 43069Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1896. 8vo. Contemporary half cloth with gilt title to spine. Band 58 of "Annalen der Physik und Chemie". Library stamp to verso of title-page. Light wear to edges and capitals and a damp-stain to the lower part of the last three leaves. Otherwise a clean and well preserved copy. The entire volume offered. Pp. 662-669. Entire volume: VIII 776 pp. 6 folded plates. First edition of Wilhelm Wien's highly influential paper on the phenomenon of radiation also known as Wien's displacement law. Wien followed Ludwig Boltzmann's approach when incorporating electrodynamics and thermodynamics in investigating radiation and its characteristics. "He argued that if a system reaches the same temperature by the increase of temperature or by the adiabatic compression of the volume containing heat radiation it should yield the same energy distribution. Considering also the Doppler effect of the radiation Wien arrived at an expression for energy distribution that states that the product of temperature and the wave length is a constant". Mathew Chandrankunnel Philosophy of physics 2000 4 p.Wien's empirical observations functioned as a starting point for Max Planck who wanted prove the theoretical foundation for Wien's wishing thus to justify the entropy law. Today Wien's approximation is also known as Wien-Planck law.This phenomenon was coined "Wien's displacement law" because the energy density curve is displaced correspondingly to the temperature; it implies that the hotter an object is the shorter the wavelength at which it will release most of its radiation. Wien's description of radiation awarded him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1911. Wien's constant is today used in a wide range of different aspects of physics e.g. cosmic microwave background and the determination of how much energy is emitted from a light bulb. Magie "A Source Book in Physics". Pp. 597-600.Other papers of interest contained in the present volume:KOHLRAUSCH F. Ueber Widerstandsmessungen von Electrolyten mit Wechselströmen durch das Dynamometer. Pp. 514-516.BOLTZMANN L. Zur Energetik. Pp. 595-598.RYDBERG J. J. Die Neuen Grundstoffe des Cleveïtgases. Pp. 674-679.WIEN W. Ueber die auf einer schweren Flüssigkeit möglichen Wellen von sehr Höhe. Pp. 729-735.Etc. hardcover
1998rif. 2610ec541New York: W. W. Norton & Company 1998. BP2 - A first edition stated with complete numberline hardcover book SIGNED and dated by John A. Wheeler with "With warmest good wishes!" written on the half-title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling chipping and crease on the edges and corners small open tear/chipped on the back bottom edge some scattered chipping/bug damage on the opposite side some light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners some wrinkling on the spine edges some scattered chipping/bug damage on the cover near the edges and some on the top cover edges some spot stains on the top page edges light discoloration and shelf wear. 9.5"x6.5" 380 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. John Archibald Wheeler was an American theoretical physicist. He was largely responsible for reviving interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II. Wheeler also worked with Niels Bohr to explain the basic principles of nuclear fission. Together with Gregory Breit Wheeler explored positron-electron pair production from the collision of two photons now known as the Breit-Wheeler process. He is known for popularizing the term "black hole" to describe the gravitationally completely collapsed objects predicted by general relativity. He also coined "quantum foam" "neutron moderator" "wormhole" and "it from bit" and hypothesized the "one-electron universe". Stephen Hawking called Wheeler the "hero of the black hole story". At 21 Wheeler earned his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University under the supervision of Karl Herzfeld. He studied under Breit and Bohr on a National Research Council fellowship. In 1939 he collaborated with Bohr on a series of papers using the liquid drop model to explain the mechanism of fission. During World War II he worked with the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago where he helped design nuclear reactors and then at the Hanford Site in Richland Washington where he helped DuPont build them. He returned to Princeton after the war but returned to government service to help design and build the hydrogen bomb in the early 1950s. He and Edward Teller were the main civilian proponents of thermonuclear weapons. For most of his career Wheeler was a professor of physics at Princeton University which he joined in 1938 remaining until 1976. At Princeton he supervised 46 PhD students more than any other physics professor. Wheeler left Princeton at the age of 65. He was appointed director of the Center for Theoretical Physics at the University of Texas at Austin in 1976 and remained in the position until 1986 when he retired and became a professor emeritus. With Kip Thorne and Charles Misner he coauthored the general relativity textbook Gravitation. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. W. W. Norton & Company Hardcover
1970rif. PH-368Moscow Russia: Mir Publishers 1970. Classic text translated from the original Russian contains detailed topics covering axioms of statics and dynamics; couple; systems of concurrent forces in a plane; friction; two- and three-dimension force systems; centroids and centers of gravity; kinematics; complex motion of particles; plane motion; method of kinetostatics; laws of dynamics; application of the laws of kinematics and dynamics to the analysis of mechanisms; etc. 410 pp. Illustrated. Minor small discoloration mark on the rear cover; minimal shelfwear. Scarce. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mir Publishers Hardcover
1782rif. r5076London: C. Dilly and J. Bowen. Cover rubbed with corner wear. Neatly rebacked with new eps. Content VG. 1782. The Second Edition with Considerable Additions and Alterations. Leather cover. 210mm x 130mm 8" x 5". xxiv 495pp index. 4 folding engraved plates. The author 1749-1809 was an Anglo-Italian physicist and made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1779. . C. Dilly and J. Bowen hardcover
rif. 059841Joseph Henry Laboratories Princeton Unibversity 1975. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. I 538-605 Pp. Offprint In Card Covers With Cutout Front Cover Black Binding. Near Fine Slight Aging To Covers. Inscribed By Wheeler To Adolf Grunebaum. Per Wikipedia Adolf Grünbaum 1923 - 2018 Was A German-American Philosopher Of Science And A Critic Of Both Psychoanalysis And Karl Popper's Philosophy Of Science. He Was The First Andrew Mellon Professor Of Philosophy At The University Of Pittsburgh From 1960 Until His Death And Also Served As Co-Chairman Of Its Center For Philosophy Of Science From 1978 Research Professor Of Psychiatry From 1979 And Primary Research Professor In The Department Of History And Philosophy Of Science From 2006. His Works Include Philosophical Problems Of Space And Time 1963 The Foundations Of Psychoanalysis 1984 And Validation In The Clinical Theory Of Psychoanalysis 1993. Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton Unibversity paperback
1998rif. 056212New York: W. W. Norton & Company 1998. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 380 Pp. Black Boards Gilt. First Printing Indicated. Signed By John Archibald Wheeler. Near Fine No Wear But Foxing Along Top Edge And Fore Edge Of Page Block In Fine Dust Jacket "Signed Copy" Sticker On Front Panel Priced $27.95. W. W. Norton & Company hardcover
1998rif. 046940New York: W. W. Norton & Company 1998. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 380 Pp. Black Boards Gilt. First Printing Indicated. Inscribed On The Half Title Page By John Archibald Wheeler. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket Priced $27.95. W. W. Norton & Company hardcover
1950rif. 046939American Physical Society / American Institute Of Physics 1950. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 422 Pp. Annual Volume 1950 Bound With Green Morocco Spine And Tips No Wrapers. Patterned Boards Speckled Edges Gilt Title On Spine. Near Fine No Wear Immaculate Gilt Brilliant "Hauptbucherel" Stamp And Circular Ownership Stamp In Ludwigshafen On Title Page Vertical Crease On Title Page Else Fine. Chien-Shiung Wu Chinese: ; 1912 - 1997 Was A Chinese-American Particle And Experimental Physicist Who Made Significant Contributions In The Field Of Nuclear And Particle Physics. Wu Worked On The Manhattan Project Where She Helped Develop The Process For Separating Uranium Into Uranium-235 And Uranium-238 Isotopes By Gaseous Diffusion. She Is Best Known For Conducting The Wu Experiment Which Proved That Parity Is Not Conserved. This Discovery Resulted In Her Colleagues Tsung-Dao Lee And Chen-Ning Yang Winning The 1957 Nobel Prize In Physics While Wu Herself Was Awarded The Inaugural Wolf Prize In Physics In 1978. Her Expertise In Experimental Physics Evoked Comparisons To Marie Curie. Her Nicknames Include The "First Lady Of Physics" The "Chinese Madame Curie" And The "Queen Of Nuclear Research". In September 1944 Wu Was Contacted By The Manhattan District Engineer Colonel Kenneth Nichols. Wu Was Frustrated With Her Lack Of Professorships And Volunteered To Help Out In The Project. The Newly Commissioned B Reactor The First Practical Nuclear Reactor Ever Built Which Was Located At The Hanford Site Had Run Into An Unexpected Problem Starting Up And Shutting Down At Regular Intervals. John Archibald Wheeler And Partner Enrico Fermi Suspected That A Fission Product Xe-135 With A Half-Life Of 9.4 Hours Was The Culprit And Might Be A Neutron Poison Or Absorber. Segrè Then Remembered The 1940 Phd Thesis That Wu Had Done For Him At Berkeley On The Radioactive Isotopes Of Xe And Told Fermi To "Ask Ms. Wu". After Fermi Contacted Wu Segrè Visited Her Dorm Room Together With Nichols And Collected The Typewritten Draft Prepared For The Physical Review. The Suspicions Of Fermi And Wheeler Came True Wu's Paper Unknowingly Verified That Xe-135 Was Indeed The Culprit For The B Reactor; It Turned Out To Have An Unexpectedly Large Neutron Absorption Cross-Section. Wu Also Used Her Findings In Radioactive Uranium Separation To Build The Standard Model For Producing Enriched Uranium To Fuel The Atomic Bombs At The Oak Ridge Tennessee Facility As Well As Build Innovative Geiger Counters. Wu Like Most Involved Physicists In Their Later Years Distanced Herself From The Manhattan Project Due To Its Destructive Outcome And Recommended To The Taiwanese President Chiang Kai-Shek In 1962 To Never Build Nuclear Weapons. In November 1949 Wu Experimented With The Conclusions Of Einstein's Epr Thought Experiment Which Called Quantum Entanglement "Spooky Action At A Distance". Wu Managed To Be The First To Establish The Phenomenon And Validity Of Entanglement Using Photons Through Observing Angular Correlation. Specifically The Experiment Carried Out By Wu Was The First Important Confirmation Of Quantum Results Relevant To A Pair Of Entangled Photons As Applicable To The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Epr Paradox. In Her Post-War Research Wu Continued To Investigate Beta Decay. In 1949 Wu Completely Established Fermi's Theory And Showed How Beta Decay Worked Especially In Creating Electrons Neutrinos And Positrons.At Columbia Wu Knew The Chinese-Born Theoretical Physicist Tsung-Dao Lee Personally. In The Mid-1950S Lee And Another Chinese Theoretical Physicist Chen Ning Yang Grew To Question A Hypothetical Law Of Elementary Particle Physics The "Law Of Conservation Of Parity". The Discovery Of Parity Violation Was A Major Contribution To Particle Physics And The Development Of The Standard Model. The Discovery Actually Set The Stage For The Development Of The Model As The Model Relied On The Idea Of Symmetry Of Particles And Forces And How Particles Can Sometimes Break That Symmetry. See The Much Longer Wikipedia Article. American Physical Society / American Institute Of Physics hardcover
2000rif. 034820Cambridge / London: The MIT Press 2000. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/As New. Xxi 135 Pp. Blue Cloth Silver Gilt. Second Printing. Inscribed By The Author To A Caltech Professor Jerry Solomon: " To Jerry With High Hopes For A Deeper Understanding Of The Laws Of Nature C A Mead". As New In As New Dj. Per Wikipedia Carver Andress Mead Born 1934 Is An American Scientist And Engineer. He Currently Holds The Position Of Gordon And Betty Moore Professor Emeritus Of Engineering And Applied Science At The California Institute Of Technology Caltech Having Taught There For Over 40 Years. He Taught Deborah Chung The First Female Engineering Graduate Of Caltech. He Advised The First Female Electrical Engineering Student At Caltech Louise Kirkbride. His Contributions As A Teacher Include The Classic Textbook Introduction To Vlsi Systems 1980 Which He Coauthored With Lynn Conway. A Pioneer Of Modern Microelectronics He Has Made Contributions To The Development And Design Of Semiconductors Digital Chips And Silicon Compilers Technologies Which Form The Foundations Of Modern Very-Large-Scale Integration Chip Design. In The 1980S He Focused On Electronic Modelling Of Human Neurology And Biology Creating "Neuromorphic Electronic Systems."567 Mead Has Been Involved In The Founding Of More Than 20 Companies.8 Most Recently He Has Called For The Reconceptualization Of Modern Physics Revisiting The Theoretical Debates Of Niels Bohr Albert Einstein And Others In Light Of Later Experiments And Developments In Instrumentation. Carver Mead Has Developed An Approach He Calls Collective Electrodynamics In Which Electromagnetic Effects Including Quantized Energy Transfer Are Derived From The Interactions Of The Wavefunctions Of Electrons Behaving Collectively.68 In This Formulation The Photon Is A Non-Entity And Planck's Energy-Frequency Relationship Comes From The Interactions Of Electron Eigenstates. The Approach Is Related To John Cramer's Transactional Interpretation Of Quantum Mechanics To The Wheeler-Feynman Absorber Theory Of Electrodynamics And To Gilbert N. Lewis's Early Description Of Electromagnetic Energy Exchange At Zero IntervalClarification Needed In Spacetime. Although This Reconceptualization Does Not Pertain To Gravitation A Gravitational Extension Of It Makes Predictions That Differ From General Relativity. For Instance Gravitational Waves Should Have A Different Polarization Under "G4v" The Name Given To This New Theory Of Gravity. Moreover This Difference In Polarization Can Be Detected By Advanced Ligo. The MIT Press hardcover
1969rif. PH-341Boulder CO.: Golem Press 1969. Classic highly-acclaimed treatise on the Wiener-Hopf technique as applied to waveguides antennas and electromagnetic wave propagation. Weinstein was the first to generalize the Wiener-Hopf method for application to open-ended waveguides and related problems. Part I contains topics covering the diffraction of electromagnetic and acoustic waves at the open end of plane-parallel and circular waveguides including the author's rigorous solutions. Part II contains topics covering a wide variety of diffraction and propagation problems such as axial resonators; noncontacting plungers; corrugated structures; gratings; diaphrams in waveguides; finitely conducting structures; surface waves; shore refraction; sheath helixes; radiation; etc. 411 pgs. Illustrated. This edition has been Corrected and Updated by the author with respect to the original Russian edition published in 1966. Dustjacket price-clipped on lower front flap; very minimal rubbing to edges; in mylar. Very minimal shelfwear to text; upper corners slightly bumped. Scarce. First English Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Golem Press Hardcover
1856rif. 010227London: Richard Taylor and William Francis 1856. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition in original green embossed cloth with bright gilt lettering at spine Very Good corners turned in widely scattered small spots of browning hinges tight. With three engraved plates one folding and errata slip tipped at p. 445. The inked signature of Robert Siegfried front paste down. viii 496 pp. Richard Taylor and William Francis Hardcover
1989rif. 053466London Uk: Oxford University Press 1989. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Drawings Throughout By Roger Penrose. Xiii 466 Pp. Black Cloth Gilt. True First Edition Printing In London 1989 First Printing Not The American First Which States Printed In United States Slightly Different Layout And Has A Number Line On The Copyright Page. Book Bright And Clean No Wear But Owner's Custom Bookplate On Front Pastedown And Signature At Top Of Title Page. Dust Jacket With No Wear Or Rubbing. Evaluating Computers In The Modern Context; But Before Computerization Became So Pervasive That Humans Became Less Able To Perceive Truth With Their Own Senses Fatally Distracted By Beauty And Pleasure And Computers Were Already Well On Their Way To Feeding Us That Also. Oxford University Press hardcover
1913rif. 032974Haarlem: De Erven Loosjes 1913. First Separate Edition . Soft cover. Good. 60 Pp. Beige Wrappers Printed In Black.Wear And Losses To Paper Backstrip Wear At Tips. Paper Browning Bookplate Of A Well-Published Leiden-Trained Mathematical Physicist Jan Korringa. With The Three Summary Handouts For The Lectures Titled Het Relativiteitsbeginsel I Ii And Iii Of 4 4 And 5 Pages. Pencil Notes In Text And Also Dating The First Lecture As March 1913 These Notes Not By By Korringa But Possibly By H A Kramers Who Attended These Lectures As A Student And Passed Some Of His Physics Books To Korringa Who Later Became Kramers' Principal Assistant. The Summary Handouts Are Quite Scarce. De Erven Loosjes paperback
1906rif. 058327Leipzig: Verlag Von B. G. Truebner 1906. Early Edition . Cloth. Good. 128 1 Pp. Original Green Cloth Spine Lettered In Gilt Covers Stamped In Blind. . Torn At Spine. Ex-Library California Institute Of Technology With Their Marks Bookplate And Pocket And With Gift Bookplate Of E. T. Bell Professor Of Mathematics And As "John Taine" Pulp Science Fiction Writer. Endpaper With His Signature And 1918 Date With A Note That He Purchased It From Another Person At Columbia University Apparently M. E. Gansohne Whose Signature And Address Appear Above The Bell Information. There Is Another Note On The Rear Cover Dated 1908. Ppm 378 The Electron Theory. Covers Worn Fraying At Corners And Closed Split To Spine Cloth 1" Foil/Label On Spine. Verlag Von B. G. Truebner hardcover
1966rif. 054052New York: Interscience Publishers / John Wiley & Sons 1966. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Xiv 394 Pp. Gray-Green Cloth Printed In Dark Green. First Printing. Near Fine No Names Or Marks Or Fading Or Stains. Dj WornWith Rubbing Along Edges Short Tears And Small Losses At Corners Interior Clear Tape Reinforcements To Spine. Remarkably Thorough Experimental And Theoretical History And Analysis. Definitive For The Advanced Student And The Expert. Per Wikipedia Chien-Shiung Wu Chinese: ; Pinyin: Wú Jiànxióng; Wade-Giles: Wu2 Chien4-Hsiung2; 1912 - 1997 Was A Chinese-American Particle And Experimental Physicist Who Made Significant Contributions In The Fields Of Nuclear And Particle Physics. Wu Worked On The Manhattan Project Where She Helped Develop The Process For Separating Uranium Into Uranium-235 And Uranium-238 Isotopes By Gaseous Diffusion. She Is Best Known For Conducting The Wu Experiment Which Proved That Parity Is Not Conserved. This Discovery Resulted In Her Colleagues Tsung-Dao Lee And Chen-Ning Yang Winning The 1957 Nobel Prize In Physics While Wu Herself Was Awarded The Inaugural Wolf Prize In Physics In 1978. Her Expertise In Experimental Physics Evoked Comparisons To Marie Curie. Her Nicknames Include The "First Lady Of Physics" The "Chinese Madame Curie" And The "Queen Of Nuclear Research". After Work On The Manhattan Project During Wwii Wu Accepted An Offer Of A Position As An Associate Research Professor At Columbia. She Would Remain At Columbia For The Rest Of Her Career And Was First Named Associate Professor In 1952 Which Made Her The First Woman To Become A Tenured Physics Professor In University History. In November 1949 Wu Experimented With The Conclusions Of Einstein's Epr Thought Experiment Which Called Quantum Entanglement "Spooky Action At A Distance". Wu Was The First To Establish The Phenomenon And Validity Of Entanglement Using Photons Through Observing Angular Correlation As Her Result Confirmed Maurice Pryce And John Clive Ward's Calculations On The Correlation Of The Quantum Polarizations Of Two Photons Propagating In Opposite Directions. Specifically The Experiment Carried Out By Wu Was The First Important Confirmation Of Quantum Results Relevant To A Pair Of Entangled Photons As Applicable To The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Epr Paradox. Her 1950 Letter To Physical Review Famously Identified Confirmation Of Wheeler's Ideas On Entanglement. Tsung-Dao Lee And Another Chinese Theoretical Physicist Chen Ning Yang Grew To Question A Hypothetical Law Of Elementary Particle Physics The "Law Of Conservation Of Parity". Lee And Yang Worked Out A Pencil-And-Paper Design Of An Experiment For Testing Conservation Of Parity In The Laboratory. Because Of Her Expertise In Choosing And Then Working Out The Hardware Manufacture Set-Up And Laboratory Procedures Wu Then Informed Lee That She Could Carry Out The Experiment. Wu Chose To Do This By Taking A Sample Of Radioactive Cobalt-60 And Cooling It To Cryogenic Temperatures With Liquid Gases. Cobalt-60 Is An Isotope That Decays By Beta Particle Emission And Wu Was Also An Expert On Beta Decay. The Discovery Of Parity Violation Was A Major Contribution To Particle Physics And The Development Of The Standard Model. The Discovery Actually Set The Stage For The Development Of The Model As The Model Relied On The Idea Of Symmetry Of Particles And Forces And How Particles Can Sometimes Break That Symmetry.The Wide Coverage Of Her Discovery Prompted The Discoverer Of Fission Otto Frisch To Mention That Those At Princeton Would Often Say That Her Experiment Was The Most Impactful Since The Michelson-Morley Experiment That Inspired Einstein's Theory Of Relativity. In December 1962 Wu Experimentally Demonstrated A Universal Form And More Accurate Version Of Fermi's Old Beta Decay Model Confirming The Conserved Vector Current Cvc Hypothesis Of Richard Feynman And Murray Gell-Mann On The Road To The Standard Model. Interscience Publishers / John Wiley & Sons hardcover
1932rif. 53414Berlin Springer 1932. 8vo. Orig. full yellow cloth. with orig. printed dustjacket. Jacket with a few minor small tears. Small stamp on titlepage and jacket with previous owners name: Niels Arley 1911-94 collaborated with Niels Bohr professor at Inst. of Theoretical Physics Univ. of Copenhagen. 82622 pp. With many annotations in small pencil by Niels Arley throughout. First edition. In the early years of quantum mechanics several distinct formulations were developed; Heisenberg's matrix mechanics Schrödinger's wave mechanics and Dirac's more general transformation theory. However these theories lacked strict mathematical rigor only much later through Schwartz's theory of distributions did Dirac's theory achieve this. Quantum mechanics is one of the fields of science which was fortunate to attract the attention of a mathematician of von Neumann's character. Von Neumann showed in a paper published 1927 how generalized infinite-dimensional Euclidean spaces function spaces and linear operators provide the proper mathematical framework for quantum mechanics. Von Neumann was strongly influenced by Hilbert's program of axiomatizing the fields of science. The axiomatic approach which von Neumann takes in his theory has ever since dominated modern physics and functional analysis and it was von Neumann who coined the term 'Hilbert space'. Von Neumann's work in this field culminated in this monograph which in addition to the earlier paper includes his important considerations inspired by Bohr and Heisenberg regarding the problem of measurement in particular von Neumann's disproof of hidden variables. hardcover
1992rif. 052807Plenum Press 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Xxiv 335 Pp. Black Boards Spine Gilt. First Printing No Additional Printing Indicated. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket Priced $24.50. Laid In Loosely Is A Gift Card Signed By Wigner And Dated In 1965. Per Wikikpedia Eugene Paul Wigner 1902 - 1995 Was A Hungarian-American Theoretical Physicist Who Also Contributed To Mathematical Physics. He Received The Nobel Prize In Physics In 1963 "For His Contributions To The Theory Of The Atomic Nucleus And The Elementary Particles Particularly Through The Discovery And Application Of Fundamental Symmetry Principles". A Graduate Of The Technical Hochschule Berlin Now Technische Universität Berlin Wigner Worked As An Assistant To Karl Weissenberg And Richard Becker At The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute In Berlin And David Hilbert At The University Of Göttingen. Wigner And Hermann Weyl Were Responsible For Introducing Group Theory Into Physics Particularly The Theory Of Symmetry In Physics. Along The Way He Performed Ground-Breaking Work In Pure Mathematics In Which He Authored A Number Of Mathematical Theorems. In Particular Wigner's Theorem Is A Cornerstone In The Mathematical Formulation Of Quantum Mechanics. He Is Also Known For His Research Into The Structure Of The Atomic Nucleus. In 1930 Princeton University Recruited Wigner Along With John Von Neumann And He Moved To The United States Where He Obtained Citizenship In 1937. Wigner Participated In A Meeting With Leo Szilard And Albert Einstein That Resulted In The Einstein-Szilard Letter Which Prompted President Franklin D. Roosevelt To Authorize The Creation Of The Advisory Committee On Uranium With The Purpose Of Investigating The Feasibility Of Nuclear Weapons. Wigner Was Afraid That The German Nuclear Weapon Project Would Develop An Atomic Bomb First. During The Manhattan Project He Led A Team Whose Task Was To Design Nuclear Reactors To Convert Uranium Into Weapons Grade Plutonium. At The Time Reactors Existed Only On Paper And No Reactor Had Yet Gone Critical. Wigner Was Disappointed That Dupont Was Given Responsibility For The Detailed Design Of The Reactors Not Just Their Construction. He Became Director Of Research And Development At The Clinton Laboratory Now The Oak Ridge National Laboratory In Early 1946 But Became Frustrated With Bureaucratic Interference By The Atomic Energy Commission And Returned To Princeton. In The Postwar Period He Served On A Number Of Government Bodies Including The National Bureau Of Standards From 1947 To 1951 The Mathematics Panel Of The National Research Council From 1951 To 1954 The Physics Panel Of The National Science Foundation And The Influential General Advisory Committee Of The Atomic Energy Commission From 1952 To 1957 And Again From 1959 To 1964. In Later Life He Became More Philosophical And Published The Unreasonable Effectiveness Of Mathematics In The Natural Sciences His Best-Known Work Outside Technical Mathematics And Physics. Plenum Press hardcover
1965rif. 010746Rome: Pontificia Academia Scientiarum 1965. Journal. Near Fine. Printed Wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Association Copy. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by author at title page "To Willies Barnstone Glad that we are alive! Alair. Feb. 67". Near Fine. Octavo. In original grey printed wrappers. Spine foxed. Top of front wrapper INSCRIBED in ink in Barnstone's hand "also appeared in: Brain and Conscious Experience Ed. John Eccles Springer-Verlog New York Inc. 1966.". A scientific offprint paginated 667-703. Alair de Oliveira Gomes was a professor of the Philosophy of Science and then of Contemporary Art before establishing himself as a pioneer of homoerotic photography. Both he and Barnstone were deeply inspired by classical Greek culture and approached their disciplines similarly influenced by musical structures exhibiting the musical features of their non-musical art forms. Gomes's academic publications and his signature on items other than his famous photographs are RARE. . Pontificia Academia Scientiarum Paperback
1965rif. 033390New York: The American Physical Society 1965. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Entire Issue In Original Blue-Green Wrappers. Near Fine. The American Physical Society paperback