Sources for History of Quantum Physics. An Inventory and Report.

Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 68. Tall 8vo. Cloth, dust-jacket; jacket quite worn, else very good. Ownership signature of Roger Hahn. Preface by John Archibald Wheeler. Contains biographies of the noted theoretical physicist Arnold Sommerfeld (1868-1951) and the German physicist and Nobel laureate James Franck (1882-1964). In 1925, Franck received the Nobel Prize in Physics, mostly for his work in 1912-1914, which included the Franck-Hertz experiment, an important confirmation of the Bohr model of the atom.