Lancaster: The American Physical Society, 1964. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE FIRST REPORT OF CONTINUOUS LASER ACTION IN PURE CARBON DIOXIDE. “Since its discovery, [Patel’s] laser has grown to be one of the most powerful and useful radiation sources available” (Steinfield, Laser and Coherence Spectroscopy, 25)..... 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: The 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”..... 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
Rome: American Physical Society, 1975. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS 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 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
Braunschweig: Druck und Vieweg. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF A SERIES OF 3 PAPERS BY PLANCK TOGETHER MARKING “THE BIRTH OF THE CONCEPT OF ZERO-POINT ENERGY (Miloni, The Quantum Vacuum: An Introduction to Quantum Electrodynamics, 10). The issues in which the three papers appeared have been bound together (complete with..... More
1911. 1st Edition. Full volume. FIRST EDITION OF A PAPER BY PLANCK MARKING “THE BIRTH OF THE CONCEPT OF ZERO-POINT ENERGY (Miloni, The Quantum Vacuum: An Introduction to Quantum Electrodynamics, 10). “The concept of zero-point energy has its roots in a reformulation of the original version of quantum theory proposed..... More
Leipzig: Barth, 1910. 1st Edition. RARE 1910 MAX PLANCK AUTHOR’S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT with Überreicht vom Verfasser’ (Presented by the Author) printed on the front. Original paper wraps. In 1909, Max Planck lead an important discussion of Einstein’s famous Salzburg lecture on light-quantum hypothesis lecture. He began by questioning “whether the..... 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
Maryland: The American Physical Society, 1999. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF TWO OF THE MOST CITED PAPERS IN THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS. In these papers, Randall and Sundrum show that infinite extra dimension and weakness of gravity can be explained with an extra dimension. "String theory extra..... 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