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: 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

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. 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

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

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

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

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

London: 1911. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF VAN DEN BROEK’S HYPOTHESIS THAT “THE NUCLEAR CHARGE OF A PARTICULAR ELEMENT IS DETERMINED BY ITS PLACE IN THE PERIODIC TABLE, ITS ATOMIC NUMBER, NOT ITS ATOMIC WEIGHT” (Kumar, Quantum, 88).Just one month after Rutherford put forth his model of the atom showing..... More

London: Macmillan. FIRST EDITION of the Dutch amateur physicist A. van der Broek who was the first to propose that the periodic table be sequenced by the charge rather than weight. van der Broek writes in commentary on the three letters by Rutherford and Soddy, also present in this volume..... More