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 to..... More

Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1823. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF WILSON’S FUNDAMENTAL PHASE TRANSITIONS RENORMALIZATION PAPER QUANTITATIVELY DESCRIBING THE KONDO EFFECT AS WELL AS ITS SOLUTION. Wilson himself thought this lengthly work the most important of his seminal renormalization papers because it is “the first example where..... More

London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1982. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED PAPER WRAPS OF WOOTTERS’ & ZUREK’S NO CLONING THEOREM &THE FIRST SIGNIFICANT PAPER DISCUSSING TELEPORTATION. Note that we also offer this paper in a full bound volume of the journal. The no-cloning theorem is one of the..... More

Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1954. 1st Edition. RARE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of the Yang and Mills quantum mechanical theory, introduced in this paper and underappreciated at that time. The Yang-Mills theory is now the foundation of most of elementary particle theory; it is the mathematical foundation..... More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1897. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF A PAPER BY ZEEMAN OFFERING THE FIRST GLIMPSE AT THE ELECTRON, 3 PAPERS BY BECQUEREL ON THE NEWLY DISCOVERED RADIOACTIVITY, AND A PAPER BY THE INFLUENTIAL MATHEMATICIAN, ELIE CARTAN. In 1897, Becquerel’s research led him to the newly discovered X-rays and to..... More