Atomic Spectra and Atomic Structure. Second Edition.

Herzberg, Gerhard; J. W. T. Spinks, [Translator]

ISBN 10: 1443728063 / ISBN 13: 9781443728065

Published by Dover Publications, New York

About this Item

Hardcover 2nd edition (1944) in Fair condition. The boards are scuffed and show moderate to heavy edge wear. The binding is tight, but slightly rolled forward. Former owner's name is printed and stamped on the front pastedown and the title page. The interior pages are clean and unmarked; however, the former owner neatly printed some relevant constants on the rear flyleaf. No dust jacket. The book will be carefully packaged for shipment for protection from the elements. An electronic tracking number issued free of charge.

Seller Inventory # 13308

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Atomic Spectra and Atomic Structure. Second Edition.
• Publisher: Dover Publications, New York
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1443728063
• ISBN 13: 9781443728065
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition.
• Printing: First Printing
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Dimensions: 8.5W x 5.4H x 0.65D inches 8.5 inches width by 5.4 inches height by 0.65 inches depth

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Synopsis

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

About the Author

Gerhard Herzberg: Exploring the Atomic Spectra
Dr. Gerhard Herzberg was among the thousands of European mathematicians and scientists who emigrated to North America from Germany and other central European countries during the 1930s. Dr. Herzberg left Germany in 1935 and first took up a guest professorship at The University of Saskatchewan. After a few years at The University of Chicago, he returned to Canada in 1948 and assumed the first of several positions at Canada's National Research Council.

His classic work on spectroscopy, Atomic Spectra and Atomic Structure was published by Prentice-Hall in 1937 and first reprinted by Dover, with corrections, in 1944. Still in print in 2011, Atomic Spectra and Atomic Structure is now in its 36th Dover printing, by far the record for any Dover scientific book. The retail price of the first Dover edition was $1.95 in 1944, and the book is $13.95 today, surely better than the rate of inflation over the past 67 years.

Later in his career, Dr. Herzberg published his encyclopedic four-volume work, Molecular Spectra and Molecular Structure. He received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1971, ". . . for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals."