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Transmutation of the Lighter Elements in Stars WITH Origin of Actinium and Age of the Earth WITH...

Transmutation of the Lighter Elements in Stars WITH Origin of Actinium and Age of the Earth WITH Repetition of the Michelson Morley Experiment in Nature 123 1929, pp. 567-568 (Atkinson), pp. 313-314 (Rutherford), Repetition of the Michelson Morley Experiment, pp.88 (Michelson et al.) [FUSION REACTION IN STARS with 1st DETERMINATION & MOST ACCURATE AT THE TIME OF EARTH’S AGE BASED ON ISOTYPE RATIOS] Handsomely Rebound

Atkinson, R. & F. G.; F. G. Houtermans [Fritz]; Ernest Rutherford; A. Michelson

London: Harrison & Sons, 1929. 1st Edition. Handsomely rebound FIRST EDITION of 2 Important papers Atkinson & Houtermans’ SEMINAL PAPER CONCLUDING THAT QUANTUM TUNNELING MAY ALLOW FOR THE GENERATION OF ENERGY IN STARS THROUGH NUCLEAR FUSION with 1st ed. OF THE MOST ACCURATE ESTIMATE OF THE AGE OF THE EARTH..... More

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Das Elektronen-Rastermikroskop. Praktische Ausfuhrung in Zeitschrift fur Technische Physik 19 pp....

Das Elektronen-Rastermikroskop. Praktische Ausfuhrung in Zeitschrift fur Technische Physik 19 pp. 407–416, [FIRST SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE]

von Ardenne, Manfred

FIRST EDITION OF THE PAPER IN WHICH Von ARDEEN REPORTS ON & DETAILS HIS CONSTRUCTION OF THE “THE FIRST SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE,” (SEM) an invention he had earlier conceived (Collard, The Development of Microbiology, p. 25). In this paper, Von Ardeene “realized in prototype form” the microscope he had earlier..... More

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Mathematical Formulation of the Quantum Theory of Electromagnetic Interaction in Physical Review,...

Mathematical Formulation of the Quantum Theory of Electromagnetic Interaction in Physical Review, November 1, 1950, pp. 440-457 [1st Edition in Original Wraps]

Feynman, Richard

Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1950. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION of Feynman's proof of the validity of his 1949 "reformation of quantum mechanics itself," work that would "elegantly rewrite quantum theory" (American National Biography; Peacock, The Quantum Revolution, 102). In this, the third paper in his pivotal reformulation of quantum mechanics..... More

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Versuch einer Theorie der ß-Strahlen in Zeitschrift für Physik 88, 1934, pp. 161-177 [FERMI...

Versuch einer Theorie der ß-Strahlen in Zeitschrift für Physik 88, 1934, pp. 161-177 [FERMI INTERACTION; 1st COMPLETE THEORY of BETA DECAY]

Fermi, Enrico

FIRST EDITION of the “Fermi Interaction,” -- his seminal quantum mechanical description of the first complete theory of beta decay. “A particularly elegant theory and paper, Fermi’s work is regarded as classic and remains highly influential to this day” (Peacock, The Quantum Revolution, 94). “In 1930, Pauli postulated the existence..... More

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Remarks upon the Law of Complete Radiation (Rayleigh, pp 539-541) WITH A Radioactive Substance...

Remarks upon the Law of Complete Radiation (Rayleigh, pp 539-541) WITH A Radioactive Substance Emitted From Thorium Compounds (Rutherford, pp 1-14) WITH Radioactivity Produced in Substances by the Action of Thorium Compounds (Rutherford, pp 161-192) in The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, Vol. XLIX, January-June 1900 [RAYLEIGH ON BLACKBODY RADIATION AND RUTHERFORD'S DESCRIPTION OF THE PHENOMENON OF HALF-LIFE]

Rayleigh, Lord [John William Strutt]; Ernest Rutherford

London: Taylor & Francis, 1900. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF RAYLEIGH’S FORMULA TO DESCRIBE THE INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION OF BLACKBODY RADIATION. Also included: two papers in which Rutherford 1st described the phenomenon of half-life as well as a 2nd in which he further describes those experiments, one of which provided the..... More

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Untersuchungen uber die anomale Dispersion angeregter Gase V. Teil: Negative Dispersion in...

Untersuchungen uber die anomale Dispersion angeregter Gase V. Teil: Negative Dispersion in angeregtem Neon (Kopfermann & Ladenburg pp. 167–188) in Zeitschrift fur Physik 65, 1930 [2nd of a series of papers: EVIDENCE of STIMULATED EMISSION]

Ladenburg, Rudolf; Kopfermann, Hans

Berlin: Julius Springer. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE 2nd of a series of papers “IN WHICH [KOPFERMANN AND LADENBURG] PRESENTED THE FIRST EVIDENCE OF ‘NEGATIVE DISPERSION,’ WHAT PHYSICISTS NOW CALL STIMULATED EMISSION” (James, 100 Years at the Intersection of Chemistry and Physics 86). “Some historians of science have even..... More

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Uber das Relativitatsprinzip und die aus demselben gezogenen Folgerungen [On the Principle of...

Uber das Relativitatsprinzip und die aus demselben gezogenen Folgerungen [On the Principle of Relativity and the Conclusions Drawn From It] in Jahrbuch der Radioaktivitat und Elektronik, Band 4, 1907 (pp. 411-462) WITH Berichtigungen [Corrections] in Jahrbuch der Radioaktivitat und Elektronik, Band 5, 1908 (pp.98-99) [THE BEGINNING OF GENERAL RELATIVITY]

Einstein, Albert

Leipzig: Verlag Von S. Hirzel. 1st Edition. Two Volume 1st EDITION OF EINSTEIN'S TRANSITIONAL PAPER FROM THE SPECIAL TO THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY along with his FOLLOW UP PAPER WITH CORRECTIONS. The paper offered here was intended as a summary of Einstein’s work on the theory of special relativity..... More

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Strahlungs-Emission und –Absorption nach der Quantentheorie (Radiation emission and absorption...

Strahlungs-Emission und –Absorption nach der Quantentheorie (Radiation emission and absorption according to Quantum Theory) in Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalische Gesellschaft 18, pp. 318–323, 1916 [EINSTEIN’S 1st PAPER ON THE DERIVATION OF PLANCK’S LAW AS WELL AS HIS INTRODUCTION OF THE THEORY OF STIMULATED EMISSION]

Einstein, Albert

Braunschweig: Druck und Verlag von Friedr. Vieweg and Son, 1916. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF AN IMPORTANT WORK BY EINSTEIN: HIS FIRST PAPER ON THE DERIVATION OF PLANCK’S LAW, HERE INTRODUCING THE THEORY OF THE STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION INTO THE QUANTUM THEORY. “EINSTEIN’S CONCEPT OF STIMULATED EMISSION IS..... More

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Elektronenmikroskopische Abbildung mit lichtelektrischen Elektronen in Zeitschrift fur Physik 86,...

Elektronenmikroskopische Abbildung mit lichtelektrischen Elektronen in Zeitschrift fur Physik 86, pp. 448-450, July 1933 [FIRST WORKING PHOTOELECTRON EMISSION MICROSCOPE]

Bruche, Ernst [Ernst Carl Reinhold]

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1933. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME, OF THE PAPER IN WHICH BRUCHE ANNOUNCES AND DESCRIBES “THE FIRST WORKING PHOTOELECTRON EMISSION MICROSCOPE” (Tao, A Historical Investigation of the Debates on the Invention and Invention Rights of Electron Microscope, Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, 233)..... More

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Black Hole Explosions?, in Nature, Volume 248, March 1, 1974, pp. 30-31 [HAWKING'S MOST...

Black Hole Explosions?, in Nature, Volume 248, March 1, 1974, pp. 30-31 [HAWKING'S MOST IMPORTANT PAPER IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS]

Hawking, Stephen

London: Macmillan, 1974. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF HAWKING’S MOST IMPORTANT PAPER, HERE PREDICTING THAT BLACK HOLES RELEASE BLACKBODY RADIATION NOW KNOWN AS HAWKING RADIATION. Hawking’s Royal Society obituary stated: “It is fair to say that Stephen’s discovery ranks as one of the most important results ever..... More

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The Construction and Use of Oscillation Valves for Rectifying High-Frequency Electric Currents...

The Construction and Use of Oscillation Valves for Rectifying High-Frequency Electric Currents (Fleming) AND Secondary Rontgen Radiation (Barkla) in The Physical Society of London, Proceedings, XX, Part II, July 1906, pp. 177-185; 200-218 [FIRST EDITION. ORIGINAL WRAPPERS]

Fleming, John Ambrose; Barkla, Charles

London: Taylor and Francis, 1906. 1st Edition. ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT OF TWO IMPORTANT PAPERS, FLEMING ON HIS VALVE & BARKLA’S 1st IN-DEPTH PAPER SHOWING THAT X-RAYS SCATTERED BY VARIOUS ELEMENTS PRODUCED BEAMS OF CHARACTERISTIC PENETRATION. Both papers were first read before The Physical Society of London on..... More

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The Bakerian Lecture, on Some new Phenomena of Chemical Changes Produced by Electricity,...

The Bakerian Lecture, on Some new Phenomena of Chemical Changes Produced by Electricity, Particularly the Decomposition of the Fixed Alkalis, and the Exhibition of the New Substances Which Constitute Their Bases; and on the General Nature of Alkaline Bondies in The Philosophical Magazine Comprehending the Various Branches of Science, the Liberal and Fine Arts, Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce, Vol. 32, 1808 pp. 3-18, 101-112, 146-154

Davy, Humphry

London: Richard Taylor, 1808. 1st Edition. SECOND PUBLICATION OF “ONE OF THE GREAT CLASSIC RESEARCHES IN CHEMISTRY” – DAVY’S ISOLATION & DISCOVERY OF POTASSIUM AND SODIUM (Neville, Historical Chemical Library, I, p. 340). Davy first presented this work as his Bakerian Lecture before the Royal Society, hence its first publication..... More

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Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence in Proceedings of the IRE, Vol. 49, No. 1, 1961, pp. 8 to...

Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence in Proceedings of the IRE, Vol. 49, No. 1, 1961, pp. 8 to 30

Minsky, Marvin

New York: Institute of Radio Engineers, 1961. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS OF MINSKY’S “SEMINAL” WORK ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (MIT Biography). In this paper, Minsky outlines the basic features of AI programs that today still form the basis of artificial solving, including searching and pattern-recognition techniques. This..... More

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Uber quantentheoretische Umdeutung kinematischer und mechanischer Beziehungen in Zeitschrift fur...

Uber quantentheoretische Umdeutung kinematischer und mechanischer Beziehungen in Zeitschrift fur Physik, 33, 1925, pp. 879 to 893. With: Born and Jordan Zur Quantenmechanik in Zeitschrift fur Physik, 34, 1925, pp. 858 to 888. With: Born, Heisenberg and Jordan Zur Quantenmechanik II in Zeitschrift für Physik, 35, 1926, pp.557 to 615.

Heisenberg, Werner and Max Born and Pasqual Jordan

Berlin: Julius Springer. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF THREE LANDMARK PAPERS THAT TOGETHER FORMED THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS. "In spite of its high-sounding name and its successful solutions of numerous problems in atomic physics, quantum theory, and especially the quantum theory of polyelectronic systems, prior to 1925, was..... More

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On the Hypotheses Which Lie at the Bases of Geometry in Nature 8 pp. 14–17 and 36–37, 1873...

On the Hypotheses Which Lie at the Bases of Geometry in Nature 8 pp. 14–17 and 36–37, 1873 [FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF RIEMANN’S HABILITATION, A LANDMARK WORK IN THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS]

Riemann, Bernhard [Translated by William Kingdon Clifford]

London: Macmillan & Sons. FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF RIEMANN'S EPOCH-MAKING PAPER AND ADDRESS ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF GEOMETRY, Ueber die Hypothesen, commonly known as Riemann’s ‘Habilitation.’ “The importance of this treatise is not confined to pure mathematics. Without it, Einstein would not have been able to develop his general theory..... More

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Über die akustische Beobachtung und galvanometrische Registrierung von Elementarstrahlen und...

Über die akustische Beobachtung und galvanometrische Registrierung von Elementarstrahlen und Einzelionen in Zeitschrift für Physik 23 No. 1 pp. 361-378, 1924 [1st EDITION OF THE FIRST AMPLIFIED GEIGER COUNTER and the first use of vacuum tube triodes to amplify weak signals]

Greinacher, Heinrich

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1924. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST AMPLIFIED GEIGER COUNTER and the first use of vacuum tube triodes to amplify weak signals. Pierre and Marie Curie, as well as Rutherford, used an ionization chamber in their studies of radioactivity. The current that was produced by a...... More

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Discours sur quelques proprietes de l'Air & le moyen d'en connoitre la temperature dans tous les...

Discours sur quelques proprietes de l'Air & le moyen d'en connoitre la temperature dans tous les climats de la Terre in Histoire et Memoires de l’Academie Royale des Sciences [AMSTERDAM EDITION] Annee 1702, pp. 216-243, 1737

Amontons, Guillaume

Amsterdam. FULL VOLUME 1st AMSTERDAM EDITION OF AMONTONS’ DESCRIPTION OF HIS CONSTANT VOLUME AIR THERMOMETER, a device that functioned “independent of the atmospheric pressure). In other words, this is “Amontons' account of his invention of the first thermometer with which temperature was measured by the pressure of air."(Magie "A Source..... More

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Nuclear Energy Level Argument for a Spheroidal Nuclear Model in The Physical Review, Vol. 79,...

Nuclear Energy Level Argument for a Spheroidal Nuclear Model in The Physical Review, Vol. 79, Second Series, No. 3, August 1, 1950 pp. 432-434 [NEAR FINE, ORIGINAL WRAPS IN CUSTOM CASE]

Rainwater, James

Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1950. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF JAMES RAINWATER’S INFLUENTIAL, NOBEL PRIZE WINNING PAPER ON THE ASYMMETRICAL SHAPES OF CERTAIN ATOMIC NUCLEI. In 1975 the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Aage Bohr, Ben Mottelson, and James Rainwater for "The discovery of..... More

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Nuclear Configurations in the Spin-Orbit Coupling Model I. Empirical Evidence WITH Nuclear...

Nuclear Configurations in the Spin-Orbit Coupling Model I. Empirical Evidence WITH Nuclear Configurations in the Spin Orbit Coupling Model II. Theoretical Considerations in Physical Review 78 No. 1, April 1, 1950, p. 16-21 and pp. 22-23 FULL VOLUME

Mayer, Marcia Goeppert

Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1950. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF THE TWO PAPERS IN WHICH MARCIA MAYER DEVELOPS A MATHEMATICAL MODEL FOR THE STRUCTURE OF NUCLEAR SHELLS. Mayer “was the first person to investigate the theoretical basis of nuclear pairing,” something which plays a critical role in the..... More

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Results of Astronomical Observations Made During the Years 1834, 5, 6, 7, 8, at the Cape of Good...

Results of Astronomical Observations Made During the Years 1834, 5, 6, 7, 8, at the Cape of Good Hope; Being the Completion of a Telescopic Survey of the Whole Surface of the Visible Heavens Commence in 1825. London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1847 [INSCRIBED PRESENTATION BY AUTHOR. FIRST EDITION. 1st GREAT STAR ATLAS OF THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE]

Herschel, John Frederick William

London: Smith, Elder, & Co. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, A FOLIO 1st EDITION of "the first great star-atlas of the southern hemisphere' (Norman Catalogue 1056). "With this monumental survey of the stars of the southern hemisphere, Herschel completed the task begun by his father William, who fifty years..... More

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A Suggested Interpretation of the Quantum Theory in Terms of Hidden Variables, Parts I and II, in...

A Suggested Interpretation of the Quantum Theory in Terms of Hidden Variables, Parts I and II, in The Physical Review, 85 (1952) [HIDDEN VARIABLES APPROACH TO QUANTUM THEORY]

Bohm, David

Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1952. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME, BOUND FIRST EDITION of David Bohm's deterministic 'Hidden Variables Approach to Quantum Theory.' Bohm's 'Hidden Variables' interpretation is the basis of the De Broglie-Bohm Theory (or Bohmian Mechanics) and extends the Pilot Wave Theory to cover multiple particles. Bohm published an..... More

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Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, Reviews of Modern Physics 42, October 1970...

Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, Reviews of Modern Physics 42, October 1970 [BASIS FOR THE STATISTICAL OR ENSEMBLE INTERPRETATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS]

Ballentine, Leslie E.

Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1970. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF A PAPER BY BALLENTINE WHICH WOULD BECOME THE BASIS FOR THE STATISTICAL OR ENSEMBLE INTERPRETATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS, A THEORY EINSTEIN HAD EARLIER “INSISTED WAS THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE INTERPRETATION OF THE QUANTUM THEORY” (Reed, Deltete, Foundations of..... More

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The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field, 1945 [FIRST EDITION, EINSTEIN LETTER]....

The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field, 1945 [FIRST EDITION, EINSTEIN LETTER]

Hadamard, Jacques

1945. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF HADAMARD’S EXPLORATION OF HOW MATHEMATICIANS INVENT NEW IDEAS ALONGSIDE A STUDY OF THEIR PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS. Among the important documents collected is a letter from Albert Einstein analyzing his own mechanism of thought. This work appears in Weil’s list of Einstein’s publications (#214)..... More

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Uber den Zusammenhang von Helligkeit und Spektraltypus in den Plejaden, 273 in Astronomische...

Uber den Zusammenhang von Helligkeit und Spektraltypus in den Plejaden, 273 in Astronomische Nachrichten 186 columns 71–78, 1910

Rosenberg, Hans

1910. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST PRINTED H-R DIAGRAM, probably the most important diagram in stellar astrophysics” (Evans, The Curious Astronomer, 2014). In the volume offered, the German physicist Hans Rosenberg published “The Hertzsprung–Russell diagram (or H–R diagram) -- a scatter diagram showing the relationship between the “intrinsic..... More

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Telegraphing Without Wires: A Possibility of Electrical Science in McClure's Magazine 8 No. 5 pp....

Telegraphing Without Wires: A Possibility of Electrical Science in McClure's Magazine 8 No. 5 pp. 383-392, March 1897 [EARLY WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. RADIOTELEGRAPHY. INTERVIEW WITH MARCONI]

Dam, H. J. W. [Henry]

1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF A LENGTHY ILLUSTRATED ARTICLE ON THE EMERGING TECHNOLOGY OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY, then an experimental technology for transmitting telegraphy signals without wires (including radiotelegraphy). THE ARTICLE INCLUDES AN INTERVIEW WITH MARCONI. The article also describes the experiments of Hertz and Bose. Single issue..... More

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