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

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

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, one of the most significant discoveries in all of modern physics and “one of the most famous and important aspects of quantum mechanics,” (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). From the moment of publication, the Uncertainty Principle marked the end to deterministic theories of physics..... More

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

Berlin: Julius Springer. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF TWO SEMINAL PAPERS: Heisenberg's groundbreaking contribution to magnetism and to the identification of the quantum mechanical exchange energy. A third paper of import appears in the 1928 volume, Jacov Frankel’s collectivized model of the quantum theory of ferromagnetism. Heisenberg’s model..... More

Berlin: Julius Springer. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST APPLICATION OF WAVE MECHANICS TO THE THEORY OF CHEMICAL BONDING."In 1927 the Heitler-London theory was formulated which for the first time enabled the calculation of bonding properties of the hydrogen molecule based on quantum mechanical considerations. Specifically, Walter Heitler determined..... More

Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1956. 1st Edition. ROBERT HOFSTADTER’S SEMINAL, NOBEL PRIZE WINNING PAPER SUMMARIZING HIS WORK ON ELECTRON SCATTERING AND ATOMIC STRUCTURE. Hofstadter was able to show results that were “achieved with a precision that had scarcely been attained before in high-energy physics, [and that showed] persuasively that the..... More