The Positive Electron
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Carl Anderson's announcement of the discovery of the positron, the first antiparticle. More about The Positive Electron
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FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Carl Anderson's announcement of the discovery of the positron, the first antiparticle. More about The Positive Electron
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FIRST EDITION OFFPRINT, PRESENTATION COPY, of Bohr's first published scientific paper, written while he was a 20-year-old student at Copenhagen University. Inscribed by Bohr in Danish on front wrapper to Poul Heegaard, mathematician and professor at Copenhagen University. In original wrappers. More about Determination of the Surface-Tension of Water by the Method of Jet Vibration
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FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT ISSUE, INSCRIBED BY NIELS BOHR, of Bohr's Nobel Prize lecture, delivered on the occasion of Bohr's acceptance of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics. An association copy: Inscribed to J.A. Christiansen, noted scientist and student of Bohr. More about Om Atomernes Bygning [On the Structure of Atoms
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FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT, of Bohr's 1915 paper identifying conclusive experimental evidence for his model of the atom. More about On the Quantum Theory of Radiation and the Structure of the Atom
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FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Bohr’s statement of his ‘complementarity’ principle, the basis of what became known as the ‘Copenhagen interpretation’ of quantum mechanics. (The paper was effectively published simultaneously in Danish, English, French and German.). More about The Quantum Postulate and the Recent Development of Atomic Theory
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IMPORTANT PAPERS BY NIELS BOHR CONCERNING HIS DEBATES WITH ALBERT EINSTEIN OVER FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES IN QUANTUM MECHANICS. More about Letter to the Editor of Nature (13 July, 1935); “Can the Quantum Mechanical Description of...
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FIRST EDITION of Bohr, Kramers, and Clarke’s influential paper that “contained drastic theoretical proposals concerning the interaction of light and matter." Printed simultaneously in German in Zeitschrift fur Physik. More about The Quantum Theory of Radiation
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FIRST EDITIONS of two critical papers in developing our understanding of the atom: 1) all three parts of Bohr’s landmark work marking the definitive break from using classical physics at the atomic level, often cited as the foundation of our modern understanding of the atom; 2) both parts of Moseley's..... More about On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules (Bohr). WITH: The High-Frequency Spectra of the...
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THE ORIGIN OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS: FIRST EDITIONS, JOURNAL ISSUES, IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, OF LUDWIG BOLTZMANN’S ATTEMPTS TO DERIVE THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS FROM THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF MOLECULAR MECHANICS, AND HIS PROPOSAL OF THE “ERGODIC HYPOTHESIS.”. More about Über die mechanische Bedeutung des zweiten Hauptsatzes der Wärmetheorie (1866). WITH: Studien...
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FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF BORN’S NEW MATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTION OF QUANTUM PHYSICS, INCLUDING THE FIRST USE OF THE TERM "QUANTUM MECHANICS." More about Über Quantenmechanik [On Quantum Mechanics
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FIRST EDITION OFFPRINT IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF BORN’S NEW MATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTION OF QUANTUM PHYSICS, INCLUDING THE FIRST USE OF THE TERM "QUANTUM MECHANICS." More about Über Quantenmechanik [On Quantum Mechanics
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FIRST EDITION IN RARE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of the presentation of de Broglie’s highly influential “pilot-wave” interpretation of quantum mechanics. More about La mécanique ondulatoire et la structure atomique de la matière et du rayonnement [Wave...
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FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Compton’s report providing the data and experimental evidence for the dual wave-particle nature of electromagnetic radiation, later called “the Compton effect”. More about Secondary Radiations Produced by X-Rays
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FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Davisson and Germer’s confirmation of de Broglie’s hypothesis that matter has wave-like properties. More about Diffraction of Electrons by a Crystal of Nickel
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FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Debye’s explanation of the dual wave-particle nature of electromagnetic radiation (the “Compton effect”). Precedes the full account by Compton. More about Zerstreuung von Röntgenstrahlen und Quantentheorie
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FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Dirac’s first major paper; a major achievement in the advancement of the new quantum theory. More about The Fundamental Equations of Quantum Mechanics
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FIRST EDITION, SCARCE PRESENTATION OFFPRINT OF ONE OF DIRAC’S MOST IMPORTANT PAPERS: the introduction of what is now known as “Fermi-Dirac statistics”. More about On the theory of quantum mechanics
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FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of one of the major milestones of modern science: the introduction of Dirac’s wave equation uniting quantum mechanics and special relativity. More about The Quantum Theory of the Electron
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AN EXTRAORDINARY LETTER BY EINSTEIN TO HIS SON OFFERING LIFE ADVICE AND DISCUSSING FREUD, SHAKESPEARE, AND SCHILLER. More about Autograph Letter Signed
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FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of one of Einstein's major papers on the modification of general relativity and the beginning of his unified field theory. More about Spielen Gravitationsfelder im Aufbau der materiellen Elementarteilchen eine wesentliche Rolle?...
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FIRST EDITION of two important Einstein papers, including one of the two papers on his Noble Prize winning work on the photoelectric effect. More about Zur Theorie der Lichterzeugung und Lichtabsorption. WITH: Das Prinzip von der Erhaltung der...
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FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Einstein’s paper outlining a thought experiment to suggest that the uncertainty principle requires the acknowledgement of an indeterminate past. More about Knowledge of Past and Future in Quantum Mechanics
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FIRST EDITION, A FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, of Enrico Fermi's most famous contribution to theoretical physics, the development of what would later become known as "Fermi-Dirac" statistics. More about Zur Quantelung Des Idealen Einatomigen Gases
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FEYNMAN OFFERS ADVICE AND ENCOURAGEMENT FOR A SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOR. More about Autograph Letter Signed [ALS
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FIRST EDITION of Feynman’s undergraduate thesis at MIT, “a fundamental discovery” published in The Physical Review when he was just twenty-one. More about Forces in Molecules
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