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

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

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

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

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

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