Berlin: Vieweg und Springer, 1924. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF FERMI’S “VERY BEAUTIFUL & SUGGESTIVE” PAPER ON THE IMPACT BETWEEN ELECTRICALLY CHARGED PARTICLES & ATOMS (Bohr Quote, Stolzenburg, Emergence of Quantum Mechanics, 71). ALSO FIRST EDITION OF WENTZEL’S QUANTUM THEORETICAL TREATMENT OF DISPERSION. Volume bears the ownership stamp of..... 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

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

Braunschweig: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, 1914. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME, OF THE FRANCK-HERTZ EXPERIMENT: THE FIRST ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENT TO CLEARLY SHOW THE QUANTUM NATURE OF ATOMS – PROOF OF THE QUANTIZED MODEL OF THE BOHR ATOM & OF PLANCK’S QUANTUM THEORY. Note that this volume includes both the..... More

Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1936. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS. “In 1934, Enrico Fermi provided the first theoretical explanation of beta decay through a mechanism called the “Fermi interaction” or “Fermi coupling,” incorporating Pauli’s “neutron” and coining the name “neutrino” for that particle. Fermi’s theory of the..... More

FIRST EDITION OF MURRAY GELL-MANN’S SEMINAL PAPER POSITING THE IDEA OF ‘QUARKS’ INSIDE THE ATOMIC NUCLEUS. Bound full volume. Gell-Mann took nearly a year to write this short, Nobel Prize winning paper, and yet in it, three quarks later named ‘up,’ ‘down,’ and ‘strange’ “explained phenomena that theorists had been..... More

New York: Physics Publishing Co., 1964. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS OF GELL-MANN’S EXPLORATION OF HIS ‘CURRENT ALGEBRA’. THE PAPER REVIEWS, SLIGHTLY MODIFIES, GENERALIZES AND “ATTEMPTS TO APPLY A THEORY PROPOSED EARLIER OF A HIGHER BROKEN SYMMETRY THAN THE EIGHTFOLD WAY” (Gell-Mann, 1964, 63). Copies of this..... More

Lancaster: American Physical Society. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF TWO PAPERS: DONALD GLASER’S BRIEF 1952 ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS FIRST EXPERIMENT WITH HIS BUBBLE CHAMBER & HIS 1953 PAPER FULLY DESCRIBING HIS INVENTION AND SUMMARIZING ITS USE IN OBSERVING AND PHOTOGRAPHING THE TRACKS AND LIFETIMES OF PARTICLES..... More

Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1962. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE IMPORTANT PROOF OF THE GOLDSTONE THEOREM. In 1961, Jeffrey Goldstone conjectured and, a year later with the Pakistani physicist Mohammad Abdus Salam and American Steven Weinberg proved that a spontaneously broken symmetry would produce a particle..... More

New York: American Physical Society, 1973. 1st Edition. Full bound volume, 1st EDITION OF THE 1973 DISCOVERY OF ASYMPTOTIC FREEDOM, the nature of the strong force that binds quarks together in the nucleus. David Gross and Frank Wilczek (working together) and David Politzer (working independently) were the first to understand..... More

FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE FIRST DERIVATION OF THE LEVEL DENSITY FOR A GAS OF FREE NUCLEONS. “This expression, after suitably correcting for interactions present in actual nuclei, has been widely used to predict nuclear level densities” (Cook, Nuclear Level Densities, AJP, 20, 1967, p. 477). The nuclear..... More

Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1939. 1st Edition. NEAR FINE CONDITION FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE OFFPRINT of the first of Hahn and Strassmann's "three fundamental papers on nuclear fission," work which, when confirmed, demonstrated the previously unknown phenomenon of nuclear fission (Dibner, Heralds of Science, 168). (NOTE: We..... More

Berlin: Springer, 1939. 1st Edition. Full bound volume. FIRST EDITION OF THE SEMINAL PAPERS THAT TOGETHER CONSTITUTE THE FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF NUCLEAR FISSION. In the first of these 5 papers, Hahn and Strassmann complete experiments in which they had observed barium isotopes as the result of bombardment of uranium with..... More