1899. 1st Edition. FIRST PUBLISHED ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THE ELECTRON IS A SUBATOMIC PARTICLE. Mention of J. J. Thomson’s report at the 1899 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement in Science in Dover “On the existence of masses smaller than atoms,” and published in the October 12 issue of... More
American Institute of Physics translation of the physics sections of the Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. All original wraps bound in. CONDITION & DETAILS: Soviet Physics Doklady (American Institute of Physics translation of the physics sections of the Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the... More
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE FIRST TWO PAPERS ON THE AHARANOV-BOHM EFFECT, the assertion that a that a magnetic field affects the quantum properties of an electron in a way that is forbidden by classical physics. In the first paper they write, “…contrary to the conclusions of classical... More
FIRST PRINTING IN ENGLISH, ORIGINAL WRAPS, of “the classical paper on absorption properties of slow neutrons, establishing ‘the existence of absorption bands corresponding to energy intervals sufficiently narrow to allow one to isolate relatively homogenous neutron groups’. In addition, absorption and scattering properties of various groups of neutrons were investigated”... More
London: Macmillan, 1954. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION of the nomenclature designed to provide symbols for the startling new developments in the field of fundamental particles. This nomenclature is largely still in use today. The 1953 International Cosmic Ray Conference was focused exclusively on newly discovered ‘strange particles,’ or subatomic... More
Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1939. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of an important experiment in early fission research that was also led directly to Albert Einstein's famous letter to President Roosevelt urging his understanding of the potential lethality of chain fission reactions and prompting him to start... More
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1959. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE ADM FORMULATION, A HAMILTONIAN FORMULATION OF GENERAL RELATIVITY THAT PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN QUANTUM GRAVITY AND NUMERICAL RELATIVITY” (Hamber, Quantum Gravitation, 107). “In 1958, Dirac published his formulation of generalized Hamiltonian dynamics for gravitation. [The... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1897. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF 3 PAPERS BY BECQUEREL ON THE NEWLY DISCOVERED RADIOACTIVITY, A PAPER BY ZEEMAN OFFERING THE FIRST GLIMPSE AT THE ELECTRON, AND A PAPER BY THE INFLUENTIAL MATHEMATICIAN, ELIE CARTAN. In 1897, Becquerel’s research led him to the newly discovered X-rays and to how... More
Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1951. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE BETHE-SALPETER EQUATION, A PARTICULARLY GROUNDBREAKING QUANTUM FIELD THEORETICAL TOOL THAT CAN BE APPLIED IN ANY QUANTUM FIELD THEORY & MOST AREAS OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS. The Bethe-Salpeter equation describes the “bound states between two or more... More
London: Macmillan, 1934. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of the first calculation of what is now called the 'neutrino cross section;' more specifically, Bethe and Peierl's paper presents the first calculation of a measure of the probability of a collision. Together, they used general principles to relate the... More
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1937. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of Bethe's seminal paper work on neucleosynthesis, "Energy Production in Stars." Bethe's work on nuclear reactions relied heavily on the development of quantum mechanics, and resulted in the occurance of some classically forbidden reactions; and this same work... More
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1931. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF HANS BETHE’S NOW FAMOUS ANSATZ, "the first time a strongly interacting many-body system has been 'solved exactly'" (Weiss, Reflected Brownian Motion, 1). Bethe's ansatz, or approach, provides exact solutions of certain one-dimensional quantum many-body models. It has been used to solve... More
Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1939. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of Bethe's seminal papers on neucleosynthesis, "Energy Production in Stars" and "Energy Production in Stars II." Full volume inclusive of many other important papers. Bethe's work on nuclear reactions relied heavily on the development of quantum mechanics, and resulted... More
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1947. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of "The Electromagnetic Shift of Energy Levels," in which Bethe, considering the Lamb/Retherford discovery of the shift of the 2S-state of hydrogen upward in energy evidenced in "Fine Structure," took up an idea of Hans Kramer's that if one... More
New York: The American Physical Society, 1969. 1st Edition. 1969 FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of an enormously influential paper that provided the first empirical evidence of the existence of quarks within the atomic nucleus. In demonstrating that quarks are real particles, Friedman, Kendall, and Taylor confirmed Murray Gell-Mann’s hypothesis... More
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1952. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION of David Bohm's deterministic 'Hidden Variables Approach to Quantum Theory.' Bohm's 'Hidden Variables' interpretation is the basis of the De Broglie-Bohm Theory (or Bohmian Mechanics) and extends the Pilot Wave Theory to cover multiple particles. Bohm published an account of quantum... More
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1852. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of both parts I and II of David Bohm's deterministic Hidden Variables Approach to Quantum Theory. Bohm's 'Hidden Variables' interpretation is the basis of the De Broglie-Bohm Theory (or Bohmian Mechanics) and extends the Pilot Wave Theory to... More
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1939. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF TWO SEMINAL PAPERS IN THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS. Two other papers by Oppenheimer, Bohr, and Wheeler wherein they were able to confirm the findings in the first two papers are included in another issue, this too in... More
Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1939. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF TWO SEMINAL PAPERS IN THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS. Bohr and Wheeler's "The mechanism of nuclear fission" is the first fully worked out theory of nuclear fission and it laid the groundwork for atomic and hydrogen bombs... More
Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1939. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THREE SEMINAL PAPERS IN THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS. BOHR & WHEELER'S "The mechanism of nuclear fission" is the first fully worked out theory of nuclear fission and it laid the groundwork for atomic and hydrogen bombs. "The paper is... More
Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1939. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF TWO SEMINAL PAPERS IN THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS. Two other papers by Oppenheimer, Bohr, and Wheeler wherein they were able to confirm the findings in the first two papers are included in another issue, this too... More
Berlin: Springer, 1928. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF BOHR’S SEMINAL PAPER ANNOUNCING HIS “COMPLEMENTARITY PRINCIPLE,” a tenet at the center of quantum mechanics stating “that matter is both particle and wave, but can only be measured to be one or the other by any given experiment, because the object being... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1914. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT PRESENTATION ISSUE of Bohr's pivotal 1914 paper. An important test of Bohr's new model of the atom, the quantum theory he began to develop in his revolutionary 1913 'On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules;' as well, this paper is... More
London: Harrison & Sons, 1935. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF NIELS BOHR’S IMPORTANT FIRST RESPONSE TO A PAPER PUBLISHED EARLIER IN THE SAME YEAR BY ALBERT EINSTEIN, EINSTEIN’S “LAST AND GREATEST ATTEMPT TO UNDERMINE QUANTUM UNCERTAINTY” (Peacock, The Quantum Revolution, 88). Einstein’s paper was co-authored with two younger colleagues, Boris... More
FIRST EDITIONS OF ALL THREE PAPERS DEVELOPING MAX BORN’S REVOLUTIONARY STATISTICAL INTERPRETATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS, also known as the probability interpretation of the wave function, or the probabilistic interpretation of the Schrodinger wave function. Born argues – an argument that would lead directly to Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle -- that quantum... More