Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1984. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF AN EXTENSIVE REVIEW OF THE PROPERTIES OF LEPTONS, MESONS, AND BARYONS BY THE INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION OF PARTICLE PHYSICISTS. 305 pages in length, “are evaluated, listed, averaged, and summarized in tables. Numerous tables, figures, and formulae of interest... More
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1975. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF A LENGTHLY SUPPLEMENT TO THE REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS. “The authors have a particularly broad interpretation of ‘Disordered Systems’”, one encompassing the exploration of energy localization in discrete nonlinear lattices, both classical and quantum mechanical (Barker &... More
Leipzig: Von Veit. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF DE VRIES TWO VOLUME CLASSIC WORK ON GENETICS INCLUDING HIS REDISCOVERY OF MENDEL’S LAWS AS WELL AS HIS DISCOVERY OF THE PHENOMENON OF MUTATION. This work is de Vries’s most complete exposition on these subjects and it “made him famous and he... More
London: Macmillan, 1927. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF DAVISSON & GERMER’S SEMINAL CONFIRMATION OF DE BROGLIE’S HYPOTHESIS ON THE WAVE NATURE OF MATTER. For this work, Davisson and Thomson shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by... More
!["Communications in the Presence of Noise" in Proceedings of the IRE [The Institute of Radio Engineers] 37, No. 1, January 1949, pp. 10-21. Claude Shannon.](/pictures/thumb/964_1.jpg?v=1503856037)
New York: Institute of Radio Engineers, 1949. 1st Edition. TRUE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF CLAUDE SHANNON’S MATHEMATICAL PROOF & REFINEMENT OF NYQUIST’S SAMPLING THEOREM (now Nyquist-Shannon), “THE BACKBONE OF MODERN COMMUNICATIONS” (Gran, Numerical Computing, 136). Following this publication, the paper appeared in Bell Telephone’s Technical Publications. Shannon’s... More
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1985. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF 3 SIGNIFICANT PAPERS: (1) PATEL’S INVENTION OF “THE FIRST GAS LASER TO PRODUCE HIGH POWER RADIATION CONTINUOUSLY”; (2) CHIAO & TOWNES FIRST OBSERVATION OF STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING (SBS); (3) RAHMAN’S APPLICATION OF COMPUTATIONAL METHODS TO PHYSICAL... More
Princeton: Association for Symbolic Logic, 1959. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF SAUL KRIPKE’S SEMINAL FIRST PAPER ON MODAL LOGIC, “A Completeness Theorem in Modal Logic”. The paper presents Kripke’s important ideas on the semantics of modal logic, or the logic of modal notions like necessity and possibility. Included are... More
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1985. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF A REPORT ON NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENTS PREPARED BY A STUDY GROUP OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY UNDER CONTRACT WITH THE U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION. The Reviews of Modern Physics published this issue, a special one... More
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1955. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS OF A 1955 SYMPOSIUM HELD IN HONOR OF THE CREATOR OF THE WORLD’S FIRST NUCLEAR REACTOR, ENRICO FERMI (1901-1954). “In an extraordinary plenary session at its annual Washington meeting, the American Physical Society honored the memory of... More
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1935. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME, OF THE PREISACH MODEL OF HYSTERESIS; BOUND WITH VOLKOV’S “EXACT SOLUTION TO THE DIRAC EQUATION FOR AN OTHERWISE FREE ELECTRON INTERACTING WITH AN ELECTROMAGNETIC PLANE WAVE” (Guo, Exact Wave Functions, 39). The origin of the Preisach model can be traced... More
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF A “LANDMARK REVIEW” & “DEFINITIVE THEORY” OF COULOMB EXCITATION & ONE OF THE 100 MOST CITED PAPERS TO APPEAR IN THE JOURNAL REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS(Cline, “Nuclear Shapes”, Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part, 1986, 684; History of Physics: The Wenner Collection). Though the origin... More
![“Superfluidity and Superconductivity” [Feynman’s Only Paper on Superconductivity, pp. 205-213] WITH International Congress on Theoretical Physics Papers [Entire Issue] in Reviews of Modern Physics, Volume 29, Number 2, April, 1957, pp. 159-254. R. P. Feynman, Richard Phillips.](/pictures/thumb/957_1.jpg?v=1503861541)
Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1957. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF FEYNMAN’S ONLY PAPER ON SUPERCONDUCTIVITY IN PRISTINE CLAMSHELL CASE. Feynman’s work did not unravel the mysteries of superconductivity, but it significantly impacted all work in the field, including the eventual and seminal BCS Theory “‘in... More
New York: AAAS, 2009. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF A SIGNIFICANT 2009 DEMONSTRATION OF SHOR’S QUANTUM FACTORING ALGORITHM ON A PHOTONICS CHIP; WITHBOUND, AN IMPORTANT STUDY ON GLOBAL WARMING. In the FIRST paper, Politi and his team successfully realized a semiconductor-based quantum computer — quantum computing on integrated... More
New York: AAAS, 2012. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF TWO IMPORTANT PAPERS ON THE GIANT-IMPACT THEORY, THE CURRENTLY FAVORED SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESIS FOR THE FORMATION OF THE MOON. The Giant-Impact Theory is also know as the Giant-Impact Hypothesis, the Big Splash, and the The Impact. “The giant impact... More
New York: AAAS, 2008. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE FIRST PAPER TO SHOW & DESCRIBE THE OPTICAL IMAGING OF AN EXTRASOLAR PLANET, a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting the star Fomalhaut . The work is a “landmark [discovery], as it reports the first definitive, direct imaging of exoplanets... More
New York: American Association for the Advancement of Science. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF STEINHARDT & TUROK’S CYCLIC THEORY OF THE UNIVERSE. “The cyclic universe theory is a model of cosmic evolution according to which the universe undergoes endless cycles of expansion and cooling, each beginning with a “big... More
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1928. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST APPLICATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS TO THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE ATOM; Gamow’s paper represents the first successful explanation of the behavior of radioactive elements using quantum theory. The second paper by Born and Fock present the first proof... More
New York: AIEE. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF 2 RARE OFFPRINTS (1st separate ed) BY WILLIAM J. HAMMER. THE 1903 IS THE 1st PRINTING OF THE LECTURE WHICH LATER THAT SAME YEAR WOULD BECOME “THE 1st BOOK PUBLISHED ON RADIUM” (Smithsonian Archive). THE 2nd OFFPRINT IS A SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY... More
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1936. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF BARGMANN’S RELATION OF FOCK’S “GLOBAL METHOD” OF TREATMENT FOR THE HYDROGEN ATOM TO THE “INFINITESIMAL METHOD” OF PAULI (Chattargi, The Theory of Auger Transitions, 36; Avery, Applications in Quantum Theory, xii). Note that we offer the Fock... More
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1935. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF A “REMARKABLE” PAPER BY VLADIMIR FOCK DEMONSTRATING HIS METHOD OF TREATMENT FOR THE HYDROGEN ATOM and establishing the symmetry properties of the Coulomb potential (Avery, Applications in Quantum Theory, xii). Some quantum-mechanical systems may be solved exactly... More
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1935. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF THE “LANDMARK” PAPER PRESENTING THE PREISACH MODEL OF HYSTERESIS ((Mayergoyz, Mathematical Models of Hysteresis, 1). The Preisach model is a well-known hysteresis identification method in which the hysteresis is modeled by linear combination of hysteresis operators. First... More
New Haven: Yale University, 1961. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF AN INFLUENTIAL PAPER ON THE THEORY OF VOTING, THE DUMMETT-FARQUHARSON THEORY. This paper “worked on the theoretical aspects of aggregation of individual preferences and on the strategic aspects of voting theory”, provided an extended version of Duncan... More
Pisa: Dalla Tipografia Pieraccini, 1907. 1st Edition. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION OFFPRINT ON RADIOACTIVITY IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS. Gian Alberto Blanc [sometimes Le Blanc] (1879-1966) was an Italian physicist, geochemist, paleontologist, and politician. Blanc attended the University of Rome,studied was Sella and Blaserna, graduating in 1904; his thesis was on Gibbs’s new theory... More
Paris: Herausgegeben, 1938. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF BOTH PARTS I & II OF EINSTEIN’S 1938 PAPERS “Physik und Realität I” WITH “Physik und Realität II”. These are also the first two issues of this rare and short-lived exile publication featuring German and Austrian; the... More
New York: The American Physical Society. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE MERMIN-WAGNER THEOREM, BOTH THE ORIGINAL PAPER AND THE SUBSEQUENT ISSUE IN WHICH AN ERRATUM (correcting typographical errors) TO THE PAPER WAS PUBLISHED. Once referred to as “An Exact Monte Carlo Algorithm for Quantum Spin Systems”, Mermin and... More