THOMSON, G.P.
The Wave Mechanics of Free Electrons. The George Fisher Baker Non-Resident Lectureship in Chemistry at Cornell University.
New York & London, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1930.
George Paget Thomson (1892-1975) was the son of physicist J.J. Thomson, who in the 1890s had experimentally proved the existence of electrons as charged particles. The younger Thomson became professor of natural philosophy at Aberdeen in 1923, at the same time that wave theories of matter were being explored by de Broglie and others.
Looking to explore the idea, 'Thomson found that he had apparatus in his department that could be easily modified; he used a solid target, first celluloid, later thin films of gold, silver, and platinum, as scatterer, and as beam, the high energy electrons that could be produced in the tube used for experiments on positive rays. The emerging beams were captured on photographic plates as bright centres surrounded by haloes, clearly demonstrating the wave nature of the electrons, and in December 1927 Thomson was able to report his findings to the journal Nature' (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).
First edition, with tipped-in inscribed card; 8vo; portrait frontispiece and four plates from photos, old tape repair to first leaf of index in the gutter, contents faintly toned in the margins, a little offsetting from the frontispiece; original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt and to upper board in blind, cloth lightly rubbed at the tips, spine slightly rolled, a very good copy; 172pp.
Stock code 124406
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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.
£1,250.00
[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.
£1,250.00
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.
£500.00
DIRAC, Paul.
The Principles of Quantum Mechanics.
1930.
First edition of Paul Dirac's authoritative textbook The Principles of Quantum Mechanics, a landmark work that deeply influenced a generation of physicists.
£5,750.00
[TESLA, Nikola]. HALLER, George F.; CUNNINGHAM, Elmer Tilling.
The Tesla High Frequency Coil.
1910.
A first edition of the well-illustrated copy of The Tesla High Frequency Coil by George F. Haller and Elmer Tilling Cunningham
£2,500.00
NEWTON, Isaac; EINSTEIN, Albert.
Opticks or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light.
1931.
Fifth edition of Newton's Opticks, the first published since the fourth edition of 1730, and the first with Albert Einstein's foreword. An unusually nice copy in the uncommon diust jacket.
£650.00