the first textbook of nuclear physics
GAMOW, George.
Constitution of Atomic Nuclei and Radioactivity.
Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1931.
George Gamow (1904-1968) established himself as one of the leaders in the field of nuclear physics before the age of 25. Born in Odessa, he studied there and at the University of Leningrad, and then 'attended summer school in Göttingen, Germany, at that time the hotbed of the new quantum theory. There he succeeded in explaining nuclear radioactivity as a quantum-mechanical phenomenon. That insight explained experimental findings of scientists at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England, led by the titan of nuclear physics, Ernest Rutherford. Gamow went on to apply quantum mechanics to a general theory of low-energy nuclear reactions, essentially founding that field of study'. This led to the offer of a fellowship in Copenhagen by Niels Bohr, and it was there that Gamow 'invented what was to become known as the liquid-drop model of the nucleus. Later, Bohr and the American theorist John A. Wheeler used the model to explain the phenomenon of nuclear fission' (Harper, George Washington University Magazine, Spring 2000).
First edition, first impression; 8vo; folding chart, graphs and diagrams throughout the text, partial toning to endpapers and half title, contents faintly toned; original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, spine slightly rolled, cloth fresh, a very good copy in the tanned jacket that is a little rubbed and creased at the extremities; 114pp.
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Constitution of Atomic Nuclei and Radioactivity.
MANN, W.B.
The Cyclotron.
1940
First edition of the first conventionally published book on the Berkeleye cyclotron, by Wilfrid B. Mann, a student of Ernest O. Lawrence.
$1,708.00
[SANDAGE, Allan] HARRISON, Stephen.
Emanational Physics.
1988.
The second edition of Emanational Physics, a rare and unusual self-published text by Stephen Harrison proposing to correct the field of physics by reframing it metaphysically.
$1,708.00
OPPENHEIMER, Robert; SERBER, Robert; SNYDER, Hartland.
'The Production of Soft Secondaries by Mesotrons'
January 15, 1940.
First edition of production of Soft Secondaries by Mesotrons by Robert Oppenheimer, a significant early work in particle physics and the path to the discovery of the pion and muon.
$683.00
