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1982réf. 031788Cambridge: The MIT Press 1982. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. X 432 Pp. Blue Boards. As New In As New Dj. The MIT Press hardcover
réf. 031803Clarendon Press Oxford. 1961. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Xix 652 2 Pp. Original Cloth. Lightly Used Spine Cloth Faded To Light Blue But All Gilt Still Brilliant No Fading Hinges Tight. Ex-Library Naval Missile Center Point Mugu But Minimal Markings Endpapers And Edges Of Page Block Only No Marks On Cover Or Text Pages. Clarendon Press Oxford. hardcover
1932réf. 031839New York: Mcgraw-Hill Book Co 1932. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fair. Tables. Xi 562. Cloth Gilt. First Edition Stated On Title Page. Near Fine Slight Rubbing At Corners Gilt Brilliant. No Marks. Scarce. The Rare But Only Fair Condition Dust Jacket Is Priced $6.00 On The Front Cover Worn Small Chips At Edges With 2" Square Chip At Lower Left Corner Of Rear Panel Removing A Few Words In The Publisher's Catalog Of Books; Dj Split Entirely Along Front Spine Edge Without Loss Of Lettering. Bacher's Copy- From His Library But Not Marked As Such. Per Wikipedia Robert Fox Bacher 1905 - 2004 Was An American Nuclear Physicist And One Of The Leaders Of The Manhattan Project. Bacher Obtained His Undergraduate Degree And Doctorate From The University Of Michigan Writing His 1930 Doctoral Thesis Under The Supervision Of Samuel Goudsmit On The Zeeman Effect Of The Hyperfine Structure Of Atomic Levels. After Graduate Work At The California Institute Of Technology Caltech And The Massachusetts Institute Of Technology Mit He Accepted A Job At Columbia University. In 1935 He Accepted An Offer From Hans Bethe To Work With Him At Cornell University In Ithaca New York. It Was There That Bacher Collaborated With Bethe On His Book Nuclear Physics. A: Stationary States Of Nuclei 1936 The First Of Three Books That Would Become Known As The "Bethe Bible". In December 1940 Bacher Joined The Radiation Laboratory At Mit Although He Did Not Immediately Cease His Research At Cornell Into The Neutron Cross Section Of Cadmium. The Radiation Laboratory Was Organized Into Two Sections One For Incoming Radar Signals And One For Outgoing Radar Signals. Bacher Was Appointed To Handle The Incoming Signals Section. Here He Gained Valuable Experience In Administration Coordinating Not Just The Efforts Of His Scientists But Also Those Of General Electric And Rca. In 1942 Bacher Was Approached By Robert Oppenheimer To Join The Manhattan Project At Its New Laboratory In Los Alamos New Mexico. It Was At Bacher's Insistence That Los Alamos Became A Civilian Rather Than A Military Laboratory. At Los Alamos Bacher Headed The Project's P Physics Division And Later Its G Gadget Division. Bacher Worked Closely With Oppenheimer And The Two Men Discussed The Project's Progress On A Daily Basis. After The War Bacher Became Director Of The Laboratory Of Nuclear Studies At Cornell. He Also Served On The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission The Civilian Agency That Replaced The Wartime Manhattan Project And In 1947 He Became One Of Its Inaugural Commissioners. He Left In 1949 To Become Head Division Of Physics Mathematics And Astronomy At Caltech. He Brought Richard Feynman From Cornell To Caltech But Was Unable To Convince Feynman To Work For The Government Also. He Was Appointed A Member Of The President's Science Advisory Committee Psac In 1958. In 1962 He Became Caltech's Vice President And Provost. He Stepped Down From The Post Of Provost In 1970 And Became A Professor Emeritus In 1976. Mcgraw-Hill Book Co hardcover
1964réf. 031846Berkeley / Los Angeles: University Of California Press 1964. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Xxx 448 Pp. Red Cloth. Corrected Reprint And First Trade Printing Of Luneburg's Brown University Mimeographed Class Text With A Clarification By A. Blank In Chapter 5. The First Systematic Development Of Geometrical Optics And Scalar Diffraction Optics From The Basic Equations Of Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory. Book Is Fine No Wear Or Marks Small Bookstore Label Ghost At Top Of Front Endpaper. Dj Lightly Used Near Fine 1/4" Tear Two Top Edges Of Spine Small Price Label Ghost At Top Right Corner Of Front Panel No Chipping No Losses; Spine With Slight Fading And Three Small Damp Spots. University Of California Press hardcover
1908réf. 031989Leiden: Eduardo Ijdo / University Of Leiden 1908. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 135 Pp Including Stellingen At Rear. 9 7/8" Tall. Green Cloth Lettered In White. Art Nouveau Endpapers In Two Shades Of Gray. Light Wear Hinges Tight No Names Or Marks. Ornstein's Doctoral Thesis Possibly Specially Bound For The Author. Leonard Salomon Ornstein 1880 - 1941 Was A Dutch Physicist. After Completing His Higher Education Entrance Qualification He Began Studying Theoretical Physics At Leiden University In 1898. Here Hendrik Antoon Lorentz Became His Formative Teacher. On March 26 1908 He Received His Doctorate Under Lorentz With The Topic Toepassing The Statistical Mechanica Van Gibbs Op Molekulair-Theorien Vraagstukken On The Molecular Applications Of The Gibbs´Schen Statistical Mechanics To The Doctor Of Natural Sciences. He Then Became An Assistant To Lorentz And Went In 1909 As A Lecturer In Physics At The University Of Groningen Which Task He Began On April 29 1909 With The Introductory Lecture De Rol Der Wiskunde In De Mathematic Physica German: The Role Of Mathematics In Mathematical Physics . In 1914 He Succeeded Peter Debye As Professor Of Physics At Utrecht University . As Head Of The Physics Laboratory In Utrecht From 1922 He Also Turned His Attention To Experimental Investigations In Particular Intensity Measurements Of Spectral Lines And Thus Gave The Institute An International Reputation. In 1921 He Was Significantly Involved With The Head Of The Philips Natuurständig Laboratorium In Eindhoven Gilles Holst In The Founding Of The Dutch Physical Society Nederlandse Natuurständige Vereniging Of Which He Was Chairman In 1939/1940. In 1931/32 He Was Rector Of The University Of Utrecht For Which He Gave The Rectorate's Speech In 1932 De Beteekenis Der Natuurkunde Voor Cultuur En Maatschappij German: The Importance Of Physics For Culture And Society . Ornstein Became A Member Of The Royal Netherlands Academy Of Sciences Corresponding Honorary Member Of The Royal Physiographic Society In Lund And Knight Of The Order Of The Dutch Lion. After The German Occupation In 1940 As A Jew Who Was Also Active In The Zionist Movement He Was Chairman Of The Dutch Zionist Association From 1918 To 1922 He Was In Great Danger But Refused To Leave The Country Despite Offers From Friends. Like All Jews In The Netherlands He Was Removed From Public Office And Was Not Even Allowed To Enter His Laboratory In Utrecht. Ornstein Then Isolated Himself From The Public And Died A Little Later. His Body Was Buried On May 23 1941 At The Jewish Cemetery In Utrecht. Ornstein Is Best Known For His Work In Statistical Mechanics. The Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Process Ornstein Uhlenbeck On The Theory Of Brownian Motion Physical Review Vol. 36 1930 P. 823 Is Named After Him And George Uhlenbeck . The Ornstein-Zernike Theory 1914 With Frits Zernike Self-Consistently Determines The Spatial Correlation Function Of For Example Molecules In Liquids Via An Integral Equation. In His Honor A Laboratory At Utrecht University Is Named After Him. Eduardo Ijdo / University Of Leiden hardcover
1982réf. 031983Oxford University Press 1982. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. X 185. Blue Cloth Gilt. First Printing. As New Fine In Glassine Dj. Oxford University Press hardcover
1936réf. 032011Haarlem: F. Bohn 1936. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Ix 95 Pp. Hardcover Edition With "Teyler's Tweede Genootschap" Cover Series Title Page With Introduction In Dutch English Language Volume Title Page And 95 Pp. Paper. Scarce In Original Slightly Flexible Heavy Card Hardcovers With Printed Series Title Only. Casimir Was One Of The Great Dutch Theoretical Physicists. Casimir Made Many Contributions To Science During His Years In Research From 1931 To 1950. This Example With The Ownership Signature Of Hendrik Anthony Kramers Another Great Figure Of Dutch Physics Also Associated With The Leiden School But Not Signed By Casimir. This Example Almost Unworn But Thin Paper Spine Perished And The Casimir Title Page Is Detached But Present; The Introductory Pages In Dutch Are Uncut Still Attrached Along Top Edge. F. Bohn hardcover
1917réf. 032020Haarlem: De Erven Loosjes 1916 1917. First Separate Edition . Soft cover. Good. 76 Pp. Light Green Wrappers Printed In Black. Publisher's Offprint Dated 1917 Edited By Keesom Of This Paper By Lorentz First Published In 1916. Wear And Losses To Paper Backstrip Slight Wear At Tips. Paper Browning A Little Fading And Browning To Covers. No Names Or Marks But Bookplate Of A Well-Published Leiden-Trained Mathematical Physicist Jan Korringa. De Erven Loosjes (1916) paperback
1921réf. 032018Leipzig: S. Hirzel 1921. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fair. 67 Pp. Orange Covers Printed In Black. Inscribed "Herrn Professor Niels Bohr / Hochachtung Vollst Uber Reicht Vom Verfasser" From The Author On Title Page Additional Ownership Signature Of Dutch Physicist H. A. Kramers On Top Of Front Cover And Small Bookplate Of A Leiden-Trained Physicist Jan Korringa A Student And Later Chief Assistant Of Kramers On Title Page. Wear At Corners Front Cover Detached And With A Small Loss At Upper Left Corner. S. Hirzel paperback
1919réf. 032034Leiden: Eduard Ijdo 1919. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 119 Pp. Gray-Brown Covers Printed In Black. 10 3/8" X 7 3/4". Hendrika Johanna Van Leeuwen 1887-1974 Was A Dutch Physicist Known For Her Early Contributions To The Theory Of Magnetism. She Studied At Leiden University Under The Guidance Of Hendrik Antoon Lorentz Receiving Her Doctorate In 1919. Her Thesis Explained Why Magnetism Is An Essentially Quantum Mechanical Effect A Result Now Referred To As The Bohr-Van Leeuwen Theorem Niels Bohr Had Arrived At The Same Conclusion A Few Years Earlier. She Continued To Investigate Magnetic Materials At The "Technische Hogeschool Delft" First As "Assistant" Until 1947 When She Was Promoted To Reader In Theoretical And Applied Physics. Hendrika Van Leeuwen Was The Sister-In-Law Of Gunnar Nordstrom Known As The "Einstein Of Finland" Who Studied In Leiden With Paul Ehrenfest The Successor Of Lorentz. She Was Present At The Celebration Of The Golden Anniversary Of The Doctorate Of Lorentz On 11 December 1925 And On That Occasion Reported On The Role Of Lorentz As Scientist And Teacher. Covers Worn Short Tears At Edges Very Small Losses At Corners Spine Chipped At Top And Bottom But Title Intact. Eduard Ijdo paperback
1939réf. 032042'S-Gravenhage: Sierra Club 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1939. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Xii 124 Pp. 2 Pp Stellingen Thesis Laid In Loosely. Doctoral Dissertation Recognized Now In The Belinfante-Rosenfeld Stress-Energy Tensor. Belinfante Was A Student Of Kramers In Leipzig. Belinfante Created A Scheme Of Mathematical Quantities That He Called "Undors". Pauli And Belinfante Together Wrote An Article Soon After In Physica Developing Related Theory. See: Jagdish Mehra The Conceptual Completion And Extensions Of Quantum Mechanics 1932-1941. Very Scarce Worldcat Locating Only One Institutional Holding. Light Wear With Small Bookplate Of Another Succesful Physicist Jan Korringa Who Studied Under Kramers. Sierra Club 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 paperback
1950réf. 032057'S-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff 1950. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Xvi 30 Pp 3 Pp Stellingen Thesis Laid In Loosely. Doctoral Dissertation Under Kramers. Inscribed By The Author To His Best Friend Jan Korringa A Dutch Mathematical Physicist Who Was In The Theoretical Physics Institute Under Kramers And With Korringa's Bookplate. Near Fine Tiny Chip At Upper Right Corner Of Front Cover. Martinus Nijhoff paperback
1938réf. 032060Delft: Naamlooze Vennotschap W D Meinema 1938. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good . 16 Pp. Original Tab Wrappers. Lightly Used No Names Or Marks Or Tears Or Chips. Sebastiaan Cornelis Abraham Bram Van Heel Is Considered The "Father Of Technical Optics In The Netherlands." Van Heel Is Best Known For His Computational Methods For Designing Optical Systems And Their Application In Specific Designs. With His Students He Designed Optical Instruments For The Observatory Of The University Of Utrecht. He Was Co-Founder Of The International Commission For Optics Ico 1948 And Of The Journal Optics Acta 1954 The Predecessor Of The Current Journal Of Modern Optics. Naamlooze Vennotschap W D Meinema paperback
1925réf. 032065Delft: Boekhandel & Drukkerij 1925. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 72 Pp. Index At End; Doctoral Thesis. Printed Stellingen Thesis Laid In Loosely Along With Printed Card Showing Handwritten Date Of His Receipt Of The Phd "Den Hooggeleerden Heer". Original Brown Wrappers. Lightly Used No Names Or Marks Or Tears Or Chips. Sebastiaan Cornelis Abraham Bram Van Heel 1899-1966 Is Considered The "Father Of Technical Optics In The Netherlands." Van Heel Is Best Known For His Computational Methods For Designing Optical Systems And Their Application In Specific Designs. With His Students He Designed Optical Instruments For The Observatory Of The University Of Utrecht. He Was Co-Founder Of The International Commission For Optics Ico 1948 And Of The Journal Optics Acta 1954 The Predecessor Of The Current Journal Of Modern Optics. Worldcat Shows 8 Copies In Institutional Holdings 6 In Netherlands One Each In Poland And Germany. Boekhandel & Drukkerij paperback
1941réf. 032073'S-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff 1941. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Scholarly Offprint Fromarchives Du Musee Teyler Serie Iii Deel Ix 25 January 1941. Brown Covers Printed In Black With Pp 268-342 Pp 332-333 And 342 Included Twice. Pencil Name "De Waard" And Letters V.D. S. Presentation Copy At Top Of Front Cover; Probably One Of De Waard's Copies. Martinus Nijhoff paperback
1972réf. 032074Paris: Ecole Superieure De Physique Et De Chemie 1972. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 32 Pp Green Covers Printed In Black. Detailed Program For The Colloquium With Participant Jan Korringa's Extensive Pencil Notes Comments Corrections Etc. On Each Presentation Throughout. Not Signed. Ecole Superieure De Physique Et De Chemie paperback
1918réf. 032078Haarlem: De Erven Loosjes 1918. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. Xx 265 Pp. Dissertation In Beige Wrappers Printed In Black. Ownership Signature Of H. A. Kramers On Front Cover. Worn Backstrip Perished Partly Unbound But Complete No Other Marks. In 1914 Burgers Entered The University Of Leiden Where He Came To Know Hendrik Lorentz Kamerlingh Onnes Albert Einstein And Niels Bohr And Was In A Group Of Students Of P. T. Ehrenfest That Included D. Coster H. A. Kramers And D. J. Struik. BurgersThe First Of Ehrenfest's Students In Leiden To Complete A Phd Thesis 1918 Wrote His Dissertation On The Rutherford-Bohr Model Of The Atom Completingehrenfest's Work On The Connection Between The Bohr-Sommerfeld Quantization Rules And The Adiabatic Invariants Of Classical Mechanics. Later While At Delft Burgers Quickly Became One Of The World's Leading Authorities On Fluid Dynamics. His First Work Was Devoted To Oseen's Theory Of Flow At Low Reynolds Numbers And Its Connection With Ludwig Prandtl's Work On Airfoils. In 1921 He Met Theodore Von Karman With Whom He Had A Long And Close Professional And Personal Association That Stimulated His Work On Turbulence. In This Field He Was A Pioneer In Using The Hot Wire Anemometer To Probe Velocity Fluctuations In Turbulent Flows. His Work On The Theory Of Turbulence Was Devoted In Large Part To Developing A Statistical Theory Of Turbulence And To Treating Theoretical Models Of Turbulent Flow. In This Connection He Studied What Has Now Become Known As The Burgers Equation Which Is A One-Dimensional Nonlinear Partial Differential Equation Similar In Structure To The Navier-Stokes Equation For The Hydrodynamic Velocity Field. Burgers Collaborated With His Brother In Work On Dislocation In Crystal Lattices; In 1939 He Introduced The Burgers Vector Which Is A Measure Of The Strength Of A Dislocation In A Lattice. He Also Studied The Fluid Dynamics Of Dilute Polymer Solutions And Wrote Some Of The Fundamental Papers On The Intrinsic Viscosity Of Suspensions. This Work Like That On Turbulence And On Dislocations Provided The Foundation For Much Of The Recent Work On This Topic. In 1955 At Age 60 Burgers Left Delft To Join The Faculty Of The University Of Maryland. There He Developed His Interest In The Relation Of The Boltzmann Equation To The Equations Of Fluid Dynamics. De Erven Loosjes paperback
1960réf. 032084Oxford / London / New York / Paris: Pergamon Press 1960. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Plates. 19 Pp. Original Beige Wrappers. Lightly Used No Names Or Marks Or Tears Or Chips Line Of Faint Spots Along Spine Edge Of Front Wrapper Small Label Of Laboratorium Voor Technische Physica Der Technische Hoogeschool Delft. Sebastiaan Cornelis Abraham Bram Van Heel 1899-1966 Is Considered The "Father Of Technical Optics In The Netherlands." Van Heel Is Best Known For His Computational Methods For Designing Optical Systems And Their Application In Specific Designs. With His Students He Designed Optical Instruments For The Observatory Of The University Of Utrecht. He Was Co-Founder Of The International Commission For Optics Ico 1948 And Of The Journal Optics Acta 1954 The Predecessor Of The Current Journal Of Modern Optics. Worldcat Shows 8 Copies In Institutional Holdings 6 In Netherlands One Each In Poland And Germany. Pergamon Press paperback
1951réf. 032080Leiden: Rijksuniversiteit Te Leiden 1951. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 24 Pp In Grey Wrappers Printed In Black With Stellingen Thesis Laid In Loosely. Meijers' Doctoral Advisor Was H. A. Kramers. Some Browning Along Spine Edge No Marks Or Damage. Rijksuniversiteit Te Leiden paperback
1947réf. 032083Delft: Delftsche Uitgevers Maatschappij Delft 1947. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 19 Pp. Original Grey Wrappers. Lightly Used No Names Or Marks Or Tears Or Chips. Sebastiaan Cornelis Abraham Bram Van Heel 1899-1966 Is Considered The "Father Of Technical Optics In The Netherlands." Van Heel Is Best Known For His Computational Methods For Designing Optical Systems And Their Application In Specific Designs. With His Students He Designed Optical Instruments For The Observatory Of The University Of Utrecht. He Was Co-Founder Of The International Commission For Optics Ico 1948 And Of The Journal Optics Acta 1954 The Predecessor Of The Current Journal Of Modern Optics. Delftsche Uitgevers Maatschappij Delft paperback
1951réf. 032081Kobenhavn Copenhagen 1951. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 77 Pp In Grey Wrappers Printed In Black With Stellingen Thesis Laid In Loosely. First Edition. Van Kampen's Doctoral Advisor Was H. A. Kramers At The University Of Leiden. Some Foxing Or Very Light Staining To Parts Of Front Cover No Wear Contents Very Clean And Bright No Marks Or Damage. paperback
1942réf. 032097Groningen: J. B. Wolters Uitgevers-Maatschappij 1942. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Vii 70 Pp. Original Grey Wrappers Printed In Black. Doctoral Dissertation. Nijboer's Early Work Of Interest In The 21St Century Because Of Its Relevance To Microlithography In The Manufacture Of Computer Chips. Very Good Light Wear A Little Light Staining/Foxing To Covers With Some Informed Marginalia By Professor Jan Korringa. J. B. Wolters Uitgevers-Maatschappij paperback
1931réf. 032098Groningen Den Haag: J. B. Wolters Uitgevers-Maatschappij 1931. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. X 112 Pp. Original Brown Wrappers Printed In Black. Stellingen Statement Of Thesis Laid In Loosely With Printed Card "Receptie Na Afloop Der Promotie In Het Academiegebouw" Also Laid In Loosely. Light Wear At Corners Covers Immaculate Small Chip At Lower Right Corner Of Front Cover And Splits At Sides Of Spine. This Is The Copy Of His Thesis Advisor H. A. Kramer With Small Pencil "/ K" At Top Of Front Cover. Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir 1909 - 2000 Was Best Known For His Research On The Two-Fluid Model Of Superconductors And The Casimir Effect. He Studied Theoretical Physics At Leiden Under Paul Ehrenfest. His Phd Thesis Offered Here Dealt With The Quantum Mechanics Of A Rigid Spinning Body And The Group Theory Of The Rotations Of Molecules. During That Time He Also Spent Some Time In Copenhagen With Niels Bohr And Then Worked With Wolfgang Pauli In Zurich. In 1942 During World War Ii Casimir Moved To The Philips Physics Laboratory Natlab. He Retired From Philips In 1972. Although He Spent Much Of His Professional Life In Industry Hendrik Casimir Was One Of The Great Dutch Theoretical Physicists. Casimir Made Many Contributions To Science During His Years In Research From 1931 To 1950. He Helped Found The European Physical Society And Became Its President From 1972 Till 1975. In 1979 He Was One Of The Key Speakers At Cern's 25Th Anniversary Celebrations. While At Natlab In 1948 Casimir Collaborating With Dirk Polder Predicted The Quantum Mechanical Attraction Between Conducting Plates Now Known As The Casimir Effect Which Has Important Consequences. Casimir Also Worked At Mems Etc. J. B. Wolters Uitgevers-Maatschappij paperback
1948réf. 032128Kobenhavn Copenhagen: Det. Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab 1948. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. 144 Pp. Original Beige-Grey Card Covers Printed In Black. Lightly Used No Damage No Wear Or Marks Browning To Edges Of Covers Pages Without Foxing. Det. Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab paperback
1922réf. 032155Paris: Gauthier-Villars Et Cie 1922. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fair. Ix 342. Original Brown Wrappers Printed In Black. Very Worn Spine Paper Perished Covers Loose No Marks Or Stains Pages Quite Browned. Early Technical Study With Some Intimations Of General Relativity Not Available In English Translation To My Knowledge Reviewed In English In Science Progress In The Twentieth Century 1919-1933 V18 N70 19231001: 313-314. Becquerel Wrote Again On This Subject In 1923. Gauthier-Villars Et Cie paperback
