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..... 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

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1925. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME 1st EDITION OF HEISENBERG’S SEMINAL 1925 PAPER LAYING THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS. Written when he was 23, Heisenberg’s new theory – “the starting point for quantum mechanics” -- “was based only on what can be observed, that is to say..... More

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1925. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME 1st EDITION OF A NUMBER OF IMPORTANT WORKS, AMONG THEM, ONE BY HEISENBERG ON THE COMPLEX SPECTRA OF MANY-ELECTRON ATOMS. Details on other significant works in this volume follow beneath the Heisenberg discussion. In spring 1925, Heisenberg was convinced that what was..... More

Berlin: Vieweg und Springer, 1926. 1st Edition. Bound FIRST EDITION OF BORN, HEISENBERG, & JORDAN’S “MONUMENTAL” THREE-MAN PAPER, ‘ON QUANTUM MECHANICS II’, THE FIRST COMPLETE STATEMENT OF MATRIX MECHANICS (Peacock, Quantum Revolution, 52). Handsomely rebound. See details below. In this work, Born, Heisenberg, and Jordan extend the methods Heisenberg presented..... More

Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1893. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRESENTATION OF HELMHOLTZ’S DISPERSION THEORY OF LIGHT, THE BELIEF “THAT BOTH CONDUCTING AND DIELECTRIC MEDIA CONSIST OF MOLECULES, each comprising (in the simplest case) two oppositely charged atoms” (Maxwell’s Electro-magnetic Theory of Light, 375). Helmholtz based his dispersion theory of..... More

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1931. 1st Edition. THREE FULL VOLUMES, 1st EDITIONS OF HÜCKEL'S THREE LONG PAPERS ON THE QUANTUM MECHANICS OF AROMATIC AND UNSATURATED MOLECULES, TOGETHER CONSITUTING THE HÜCKEL METHOD OR HÜCKEL MOLECULAR ORBITAL METHOD (HMO) & PROVIDING "THE FIRST QUANTUM THEORETICAL DESCRIPTION OF BENZENE" (DSB). As a concept, molecular..... More