BOUND FIRST EDITION of one of three papers that led to Yoichiro Nambu’s 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics “for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking in subatomic physics” (Nobel Prize Committee). Nambu’s work “was an important precursor to the theory that unifies electromagnetic and weak forces, and..... More
Washington DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2004. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS OF THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING DISCOVERY OF GRAPHENE, A FORM OF CARBON JUST ONE ATOM THICK – THE THINNEST MATERIAL & FIRST TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIAL EVER DISCOVERED, AS WELL AS ONE OF THE..... More
Rome: American Institute of Physics, 1972. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF OSHEROFF, RICHARDSON, & LEE’S NOBEL PRIZE WINNING DISCOVERY OF SUPERFLUIDITY IN HELIUM 3. Superfluidity is one “of the greatest physics discoveries in the first half of the 20th century” (Donnelly, The Discovery of Superfluidity, Physics Today, July 1995..... More
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1986. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED PAPER WRAPS OF TWO EXTENSIVE & WELL-REGARDED SURVEY PAPERS: the first, the German physicist H. Paul’s comprehensive review of investigations, both theoretical and experimental, demonstrating photon interference even when the fields involved are produced by independent sources; the..... More
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1940. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF PAULI’S 1940 SPIN-STATISTICS RELATION PROOF. In 1939, the first spin-statistics relation was formulated by Swiss physicist Markus Fierz. Pauli rederived Fierz’s formula and his 1940 proof “. . has been the standard for almost sixty years” (Ian..... More
Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1920. 1st Edition. "Quantentheorie und Magneton" is the paper in which the physicist and Nobel Prize winner Wolfgang Pauli first introduced the fundamental unit of the magnetic moment of an electron. "The need for obtaining reliable information about the dimensions of electron orbits represented a fundamental issue..... More
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1925. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF PAULI’S EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE giving a criterion for the electronic structure of atoms, and explaining the periodic table and the combining properties of the elements. Specifically, the Pauli exclusion principle states that no two “fermions” (elementary particles with half-integer..... More
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1926. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME, COMPLETE WITH 3 IMPORTANT PAPERS. THE FIRST, PAULI’S, IS THE 1st SIGNIFICANT APPLICATION OF & 1ST VALIDATION OF HEISENBERG’S NEW QUANTUM MECHANICS. Very good+. Upon publication, Max Born said Pauli’s derivation of the hydrogen spectrum from the new quantum mechanics..... More
1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF EIGHT RARE OFFPRINTS by Linus Pauling detailing his prominent contributions to the general understanding of the nature of the chemical bond, here bringing quantum mechanics to the solution of the nature of the chemical bonds that determine inorganic crystal structure. Collectively, these papers represent Pauling’s..... More
Easton: American Chemical Society, 1950. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF LINUS PAULING AND ROBERT COREY'S FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF THEIR SEMINAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY FINDINGS REGARDING THE THEORETICAL ALPHA AND GAMMA HELIXES, TWO CONFIGURATIONS OF THE ARRANGEMENT OF ATOMS IN PROTEINS. The authors "must have realized the bombshell they had dropped on..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. 1st Edition. 1st PRINTING of Roger Penrose’s The Road to Reality, one of the most comprehensive accounts of the physical universe and its underlying mathematical theory. CONDITION & DETAILS: New York: Alfred A. Knopf. [xxviii], 1099, [9]. Illustrated throughout. Tightly bound and complete with..... More
New York: American Institute of Physics, 1975. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF THE DISCOVERY OF A NEW ELEMENTARY PARTICLE, THE TAU LEPTON (also known as the tau particle, or tauon). In 1995, the American physicist Martin Perl was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for this discovery. “In 1947..... More
New York: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2012. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF TWO (withbound) PAPERS RELATED TO WHEELER’S DELAYED CHOICE EXPERIMENT, THESE DEMONSTRATING THE “ULTIMATE” DELAYED CHOICE EXPERIMENT IN WHICH THE CHOICE IS DELAYED UNTIL AFTER THE MEASUREMENT IS MADE. These papers appear in..... More
London: Royal Society, 1953. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF PIPPARD’S DISCOVERY OF THE COHERENCE LENGTH. “Loosely speaking, the coherence length can be viewed as the spatial distance over which the superconducting state (i.e., electron-electron pairing length scale) can exist” (Ray, Superconductors, 35). The significance of this is that, according..... More
Leipzig: Teubner, 1887. 1st Edition. First edition of Planck’s first book. This prize essay on the conservation of energy includes a ninety-one-page historical introduction on the subject. The year after the publication of this book, Planck became director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics. Max Planck won the Nobel Prize..... More
RARE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS AND IN ENGLISH OF THE SOVIET HIGGS MECHANISM PROPOSAL. Unlike the Higgs mechanism proposals by Higgs, Brout and Englert, and Guralnik and Hagen, the mechanism proposed by Soviet Physicists Alexander Polyakov and Alexander Migdal is often overlooked because the publication of their paper was delayed..... More
London: Macmillan, 1949. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF TWO PAPERS OF SIGNIFICANCE. The first is a Nobel Prize winning paper outlining the development of photographic techniques that greatly enhanced our ability to study nuclear processes and for the resulting discovery of the pion, a subatomic particle. The prize was awarded..... 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
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
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1939. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF ISIDOR RABI'S INVENTION OF "A MOLECULAR BEAM MAGNETIC RESONANCE METHOD IBY USING TWO MAGNETS IN SUCCESSION TO PRODUCE INHOMOGENEOUS" (Krems, Cold Molecules, p. 510). "The importance of the role that atomic and molecular beams have played in..... More
Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1936. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF RABI’S DESCRIPTION OF HIS THEORETICAL IDEA OF HOW TO MEASURE NUCLEAR SPIN, an idea that would lead to the determination of the signs of magnetic moments via his magnetic resonance method, the most significant improvement in molecular and atomic..... More
Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1950. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF JAMES RAINWATER’S INFLUENTIAL, NOBEL PRIZE WINNING PAPER ON THE ASYMMETRICAL SHAPES OF CERTAIN ATOMIC NUCLEI. In 1975 the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Aage Bohr, Ben Mottelson, and James Rainwater for "The discovery of..... More
Minneapolis: American Physical Society, 1929. 1st Edition. BOUND FULL VOLUME, 1st ed. OF ROBERTSON'S SEMINAL MODIFICATION OF THE HEISENBERG UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE. The Heisenberg relations were quickly taken up, discussed, and sought to be extended or modified by many physicists, including Schrodinger, Condon, and Robertson. Robertson, a Princeton physicist better known..... More
Washington DC: Smithsonian, 1915. 1st Edition. FIRST PRINTED EDITION OF AN EXTENSIVE SPEECH RUTHERFORD GAVE ON COSMIC EVOLUTION. Rutherford was invited to give the opening speech in the Hale Cosmic Evolution Series of Lectures of the National Academy of Sciences. The Hale series was intended to mark the progress made..... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1927. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION of “the theory of the nucleus – his ‘view’, or model of the nucleus – was finally expressed in a great paper, this one” (Wilson, Rutherford: Simple Genius, 441). “In the early 1920s Rutherford, working in Cambridge, bombarded a series of..... More