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

Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1955. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of a paper in which Murray Gell-Mann and Abraham Pais make an interesting prediction about the decay of the kaon. A paper by Francis Low is also included (more below). “Murray Gell-Mann and Abraham Pais (1955) used an..... More

Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1951. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF 3 SIGNIFICANT PAPERS: GELL-MANN & LOW’S THEOREM, STERNHEIMER ON SHIELDING & ANTI-SHIELDING, & SCHWINGER ON PHENOMENOLOGICAL NEUTRON-PROTON INTERACTION.GELL-MANN & LOW: Tackling formalism and the bound-state problem, Gell-Mann and Low’s paper is Nobel Prize winner Gell-Mann’s first published..... More

Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1957. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF 2 IMPORTANT PAPERS BY MURRAY GELL-MANN, THE 1st A “FAMOUS PAPER” IN WHICH GELL-MANN & BRUECKNER SHOW THAT RANDOM PHASE APPROXIMATION (RPA) CAN BE DERIVED BY SUMMING A SERIES OF FEYNMAN DIAGRAMS IN A DENSE ELECTRON..... More

1963. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE 2 Volumes including ROY GLAUBER'S TWO NOBLE PRIZE WINNING PAPERS PRESENTING HIS QUANTUM THEORY OF OPTICAL COHERENCE -- the quantum mechanical basis of different types of light. “No real in-depth theory of light based on quantum theory existed before Roy Glauber established the..... 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

London: Macmillan, 1939. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of the first solid evidence that neutron multiplication is large enough (3.5) to creat a chain reaction, thus profiding "indirect proof of the neutron multiplication accompanying the fission of uranium nuclei after neutron capture" (Printing and the Mind of Man..... 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