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
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
London: Macdonald. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION of an important letter in which Ernest Rutherford responds to Frederick Soddy's letter of one week earlier (also in this same volume), and in so doing comes very close to postulating the proton. Soddy's letter presented his theory of isotopes (noting the term for..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1890. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF JOHANNES RYDBERG'S ANNOUNCEMENT OF 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 of the quantum model of atomic..... More
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
1968. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF SAKHAROV’S PATHBREAKING THEORY, THE FIRST QUANTIZATION OF SPACE. Full volume with original wraps bound in. In this paper, Sakharov suggests that quantum fluctuations of the vacuum induce the geometry of spacetime. His work gave rise to new research areas in physics, work that continues..... More
Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1944. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION SCARCE PRE-PUBLICATION HECTOGRAPHED TYPESCRIPT, housed in a custom case. OCLC cites only a handful of these specific printings: “very small edition of the lectures was published in hectograph form by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies” (University of St..... 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 which..... More
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1952. 1st Edition. BOUND FULL VOLUME FIRST EDITION 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
Minneapolis: Physical Review, 1928. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF SLATER’S 1928 SUGGESTION FOR SOLVING THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM FOR ATOMS CONTAINING MULTIPLE ELECTRONS. The Schrödinger equation presented the world with ‘the three-body problem’ – “the state of motion cannot be solved analytically for systems in which three or more distinct..... 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
London: Macdonald. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST USE OF THE TERM 'ISOTOPE,' a concept with which Frederick Soddy solved the problem of why different attempts to weigh elements result in differing atomic weights. "Intra-atomic Charge" is a short letter to the editor and is the work for which he would..... 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
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1984. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF AN EXTENSIVE REVIEW OF THE PROPERTIES OF LEPTONS, MESONS, AND BARYONS BY THE INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION OF PARTICLE PHYSICISTS. 305 pages in length, “are evaluated, listed, averaged, and summarized in tables. Numerous tables, figures, and formulae of interest..... 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
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
2007. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PICTORIAL WRAPPERS OF A 2007 JOURNAL ISSUE WITH TWO INTERESTING ARTICLES: (1) In-depth article by Topper & Vincent on Einstein's 1934 presentation of the mathematical derivation of his famous E=MC2 equation. In doing their research, the authors discovered a previously unknown photograph showing..... More