London: Macmillan, 1934. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of the first calculation of what is now called the 'neutrino cross section;' more specifically, Bethe and Peierl's paper presents the first calculation of a measure of the probability of a collision. Together, they used general principles to relate the..... More
New York: The American Physical Society, 1969. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME 1969 FIRST EDITION OF TWO PAPERS PRESENTING THE FIRST EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF THE EXISTENCE OF QUARKS WITHIN THE ATOMIC NUCLEUS. Quarks had been predicted in 1964 by Murray Gell-Mann but until these experiments, no one had produced convincing experimental..... More
FULL VOLUME 1st EDITION OF THREE LANDMARK PAPERS, each of seminal import in the history of physics. FEYNMAN'S "Forces in molecules" is the first edition of Feynman's undergraduate thesis, the paper that began to establish his name in physics. Published when he was just twenty-one, his work here a fundamental..... More
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London: Macmillan and Co., 1948. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF THREE SIGNIFICANT PAPERS: (1) GABOR PAPER: Gabor’s initial announcement of the “invention and development of the holographic method”; at that time, he called his new technology an ‘electron interference microscope’ (Nobel Prize; Gabor, Nature, 161, 1948, p. 778). “The..... More
Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1956. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS IN WHICH KERST REINVENTS COLLIDING BEAMS AS A METHOD OF REACHING HIGHER ENERGY & HERE PRESENTS “THE FIRST SERIOUS PROPOSAL FOR A COLLIDER” (WIKIPEDIA). Kerst proposed “a method for doubling the energy of impacts in particle accelerators..... More
Easton, PA. National Academy of Sciences. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THREE OF SEVEN PAPERS BY PAULING AND COREY ON THE MOLECULAR STRUCTURE OF PROTEINS. A decade before x-ray crystallography first revealed the structures of proteins, Pauling and Corey deduced their main structural features: the 'alpha-helix,' the 'gamma helix' and..... More
London: Macmillan, 1949. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF TWO PAPERS OF SIGNIFICANCE. The first is a Nobel Prize winning paper outlining the development of photographic techniques that greatly enhanced our ability to study nuclear processes and for the resulting discovery of the pion, a subatomic particle. The prize was awarded..... More
Washington DC: American Economic Association, 2003. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF A 2003 PAPER BY THE 2017 NOBEL PRIZE WINNER IN ECONOMICS, RICHARD THALER; THE PAPER PRESENTS THE FIRST USE OF THE TERM ‘LIBERAL PATERNALISM’, “the idea that it is both possible and legitimate for private and..... More
London: Macmillian & Sons, 1951. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF A NUMBER OF IMPORTANT PAPERS. ALSO INCLUDED: Armenteros, R.; Barker, K. H. “Decay of Neutral V-Particles” WITH Mackay, D. M., Calculating Machines and Human Thought WITH Bragg, W. L. Elimination of the Unwanted Image in Diffraction Microscopy WITH Martyn, D...... More