London: Richard Taylor, 1890. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF THE WORK IN WHICH JOHANNES RYDBERG PRESENTS THE RYDBERG CONSTANT, HIS MATHEMATICAL FORMULA FOR THE SPECTRAL LINES OF HYDROGEN & OTHER ATOMS OR IONS WITH ONLY ONE ELECTRON – a work justified and expanded upon by Niels Bohr's development..... More

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1935. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF ERWIN SCHRODINGER'S SEMINAL THOUGHT EXPERIMENT KNOWN AS "SCHRODINGER'S CAT," present here in all three papers.This is not an ex-library copy. In May of 1935, Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen’s published a paper (the famous EPR paper) on quantum entanglement that..... More

Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1952. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE FIRST MODEL OF ELECTRON-HOLE RECOMBINATION IN A HIGHLY PURE SEMICONDUCTOR. Cited over 2500 since publication, this model is now known as the Shockley-Read-Hall (SRH) recombination and is of import to solar and semiconductor technology. “Any electron..... More

FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE INTRODUCTION OF SLATER DETERMINANTS, now universally named for him and still employed. Many consider this Slater’s greatest paper. Working at Harvard, the physicist John Clarke Slater “published the construction as an answer to the complicated group theoretical constructions for anti-symmetric wave functions that..... More

1913 FIRST EDITION of a short letter to the editor of Nature in which Frederick Soddy presents his theory of isotopes to designate chemically identical elements with different atomic weights and first uses the term 'isotope' in print -- work for which he would later win the Nobel Prize. "In..... More

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1921. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF TWO EARLY PAPERS RELATED TO THE STERN-GERLACH EXPERIMENT, the first describing Stern’s early design of the experiment; the second describing the early results. These papers precede the 1922 publication of “the first demonstration that elementary particles have quantized intrinsic angular momentum..... More

London: Macmillan, 1927. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THOMSON & REID’S NOBEL PRIZE WINNING PAPERS “for the experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals” (Nobel Prize Portal). The experiments conducted here “beautifully confirmed the [de Broglie’s] wave theory” (Lindau Nobel Laureate Portal). Sir George Paget..... More

Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1949. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF TIOMNO & WHEELER’S NOTABLE “SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF THE STRENGTHS OF THE THREE TYPES OF BETA DECAY AND [PROPOSAL] THAT A UNIVERSAL WEAK FORCE GOVERNED ALL THREE” (History of Physics: The Wenner Collection). Apart from Fermi’s, this was..... More

New York: American Physical Society, 1936. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF FOUR CRITICAL PAPERS USING AUTOMATED PARTICLE DETECTION TO GREATLY REFINE PROTON-PROTON SCATTERING. (Watson, The Quantum Quark, 415). ALL IN ONE ISSUE. In the spring of 1936, the Physical Review received four papers, each playing a role..... More

London: Macmillan. First edition of a 1911 letter to Nature in which Antonius van den Broek proposed what is perhaps the most important single innovation within the periodic table: that elements are defined by the number of charges in the nucleus, and that the periodic table should be sequenced by..... More

Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1960. 1st Edition. Full volume with original wrappers bound in. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF WEBER’S INVENTION OF THE FIRST GRAVITATIONAL WAVES DETECTOR. Hamiltonian formulation of the equations of general relativity now known as ADM formalism. WEBER: “The detection of gravitational waves is sometimes described..... More

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1933. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS OF A 1933 PAPER BY EUGENE WIGNER DESCRIBING THE SCATTERING OF PROTONS & NEUTRONS. Eugene Paul Wigner (1902–1995) was a Hungarian-American physicist, mathematician and engineer “who made a number of important proposals for how symmetries can be applied..... More

Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1985. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF A REPORT ON NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENTS PREPARED BY A STUDY GROUP OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY UNDER CONTRACT WITH THE U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION. The Reviews of Modern Physics published this issue, a special one..... More