Willis E Lamb (32 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. Third printing, corrected. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1977. NOTE: this third printing has corrections not found in the 1974 first printing, or March 1977 second printing. "Third printing, with additional corrections, November 1977" is so stated. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked -- probably never read. NO spine crease. Cover condition is Very Good, i.e. only a little rubbed. Internally Fine. No owner's name or bookplate. Third printing, corrected. Softcover. Very Good condition. xxvii, 432pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Frontispiece Group Photograph (illustrator). First Separate Edition. Pp 745-908. Publisher's Wrappers, Printed In Gray. Photographic Plate Of Group Participants At Front, With Each Identified. Text In English, Including Extensive Comments By Participants On Each Of The Papers. First Printing. The Personal Copy Of Conference Participant Jan Korringa, Not Marked As Such But With His Marker At His Article.Just A Touch Of Wear, Browning To Spine.

(26 x 18 cm). SS. (19)-63. Mit 39 Abbildungen. Original-Broschur. (Sonderdruck aus: Reports on Progress in Physics). Erste Ausgabe im seltenen Sonderdruck. - "An account is given of theoretical and spectroscopic studies of the fine structure of the n=2 levels of atomic hydrogen and singly ionized helium, and of the work of Lamb, Rutherford and Skinner in which microwave methods are used to establish deviations from the Dirac theory. A qualitative description of the theoretical explanation in terms of quantum electrodynamic level shifts is followed by comparison with observations" (Abstract). - Name auf Einband, sonst gut erhalten.

(27 x 20 cm). SS. 696-702. Original-Broschur. (Sonderdruck aus: The Physical Review). Erste Ausgabe im seltenen Sonderdruck. - "The ranges and rates of energy loss of the fission fragments of uranium are calculated on the basis of a model in which the charge of the fragment is obtained from its energy and its successive ionization potentials" (Abstract). - Wohlerhalten.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. 432pp.incl.index; HB blue w/silver; slight rub w/clean,tight pgs. DJ moroon w/white; rubbed w/wear on edges&corners; chps&tears. "Laser Physics treats the interaction with matter, paying particular attention to the laser." equations, graphs.

Offprint. Originnal Wrappers. Includes Errata slip with 7 corrections. Very good. "[In 1948] Kroll and Lamb and, right thereafter, French and Weisskopf submitted their papers on the Lamb shift. Deftly these authors had managed to obtain correct answers by non-covariant methods. . . With the successful completion of the magnetic momemnt and Lamb shift calculations, a solid beachhead had been established in uncharted terrain, the physics of radiative corrections" :: Abraham Pais, Inward Bound, pp.460-461. This paper represents a significant step in the research which would, 6 years later, result in Lamb winning the Nobel Prize in Physics. Willis E. Lamb was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 for research related to his discovery of the Lamb Shift. Norman M. Kroll was an American theoretical physicist known for his pioneering research in Quantum Electrodynamics, at the Institute for Advanced Study, went on to become a professor of physics at Columbia and later head of the physics department at UCSD.

Offprint. 8vo. 187-90 pp. Self-wrappers. Fine. [See below for the following]: [2]: "Passage of Uranium Fission Fragments Through Matter" [from] Physical Review, Vol. 58, No. 8. [Minneapolis: American Physical Society], 1940. [with] [3]: "The Propagation of Order in Crystal Lattices" [from] Physical Review, Vol. 64, Nos. 5 & 6. [Minneapolis: American Physical Society], 1943. [with:] "Passage of Uranium Fission Fragments Through Matter" [from] Physical Review, Vol. 58, No. 8. [Minneapolis: American Physical Society], 1940. Offprint. 8vo. 696-702 pp. Original self-wrappers. Fine. [with:] LAMB, Willis E., Jr. (1913-2008). & J. ASHKIN. "The Propagation of Order in Crystal Lattices" [from] Physical Review, Vol. 64, Nos. 5 & 6. [Minneapolis: American Physical Society], 1943. Offprint. 8vo. 159-78 pp. Original green wrappers. Fine. Lamb attended the University of California at Berkeley for both his undergraduate and post-graduate studies. "For theoretical work on scattering of neutrons by a crystal, guided by J. Robert Oppenheimer, he received the Ph.D. in physics in 1938. Because of limited computational methods available at the time, this research narrowly missed revealing the Mossbauer Effect, 19 years before its recognition by Mossbauer" (Wikip.). "A Note on the Capture of Slow Neutrons. . . ," presented on November 9, 1936 and published in Physical Review in 1937, contributed to the first part of Lamb's thesis dissertation. The title of the dissertation was "I. On the capture of slow neutrons in hydrogenous substances. II. Electromagnetic properties of nuclear systems." "At Ann Arbor, I had heard Fermi lecture on the effect of chemical binding of a hydrogen atom on its scattering of slow neutrons. This interested me, and I began to work on related problems. It seemed that there might also be an effect of the binding of a hydrogen atom on the capture cross section for slow neutrons. At first I thought the effect would be large, but finally had to settle for a very rough estimate of the cross section for a very unlikely process: the radiationless capture of neutrons by bound protons to form deuterons, with the excess energy and momentum going into vibrational motion of the deuteron instead of a gamma ray. The normal capture process was very little affected by the chemical binding. Even today, this radiationless capture has never been seen, but I am still hoping that someday it may be. This work formed part of my doctoral thesis. The other part dealt with electromagnetic properties of nuclear matter" (Lamb, p. 136). "There is no greater tribute to Oppenheimer than the list of Ph.D.s he delivered, which includes Carlson, Christy, Dancoff, Kusaka, Lamb, Morrison, Snyder, and Volkoff" (Pais, p. 369). "Lamb was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1955 for his precision measurements of details of the spectrum of hydrogen. These included studies of fine structure and measurements of the Lamb shift, a key observational step on the road to the development of the theory of quantum electrodynamics (p. 203). Gribbin, John. "Lamb, Willis Eugene, Jr. (1913-)." Q Is for Quantum: An Encyclopedia of Particle Physics. New York: Free Press, 1998; Lamb, Willis E., Jr. "Five Encounters with Felix Bloch." Rice University Studies. 66.3 (1980): 133-45; Pais, Abraham. Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. LAMB, Willis E., Jr. (1913-2008). "Passage of Uranium Fission Fragments Through Matter" [from] Physical Review, Vol. 58, No. 8. [Minneapolis: American Physical Society], 1940. Offprint. 8vo. 696-702 pp. Original self-wrappers. Fine. "Early theoretical efforts on heavy-ion stopping date back to Bohr (1940) who pointed out the importance of screening due to projectile electrons in the slowing-down of fission fragments, and to Lamb (1940) and Knipp and Teller (1941) who studied the problem of charge equilibrium for penetrating heavy particles" (Sigmund, p. 19). Niels Bohr (1885-1962), the renowned Danish quantum and nuclear physicist, had been working in Copenhagen on determining how fission fragments penetrate matter simultaneously with Lamb's experiments. In a letter that he wrote to Tom Lauritsen, a contemporary physicist, Bohr mentions this article specifically, writing: "Just a few days ago I received a copy of Physical Review of October 15 which, as you may have seen, contains a paper of Lamb, who has independently achieved many of the results arrived at in Copenhagen. I thought, therefore, that it might be best to my last paper in the Physical Review to add a small addendum like that enclosed and I should be glad if you will kindly see that it is introduced in the proof. . . . In Lamb's article I also found various references to experimental investigations of fission fragments which we have overlooked or not yet known in Copenhagen" (Bohr et al., p. 239). At the conclusion of Bohr's paper, "Velocity-Range Relation for Fission Fragments," he writes, "Note added at proof.â"After the present paper was sent from Copenhagen, we received here the issue of The Physical Review of October 15, 1940, which contains an article by W. E. Lamb on the passage of uranium fission fragments through matter. In main features the considerations of this article correspond to the arguments developed here and similar results are obtained" (Bohr, p. 275). Bohr, Niels. "Velocity-Range Relation for Fission Fragments." The Penetration of Charged Particles Through Matter (1912-1954). Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1987. 270-75; Bohr, Niel, Jens Thorsen, and Erik Rudinger. The Penetration of Charged Particles Through Matter (1912-1954). New York: Elsevier, 1987; Sigmund, Peter. Stopping of Heavy Ions: A Theoretical Approach. 24. New York: Springer, 2004. LAMB, Willis E., Jr. (1913-2008). & J. ASHKIN. "The Propagation of Order in Crystal Lattices" [from] Physical Review, Vol. 64, Nos. 5 & 6. [Minneapolis: American Physical Society], 1943. Offprint. 8vo. 159-78 pp. Original.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Lamb, Willis E. And Robert C. Retherford, "Fine Structure of the Hydrogen Atom by a Microwave Method". In Physical Review, volume 72, number 3, August 1, 1947, pp 241-243, in the issue of pp 189-261. Fine copy in the original wrappers. The Lamb Shift and the beginning of quantum electrodynamics. Lamb won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 for his discoveries related to the Lamb shift. "It became clear that a new chapter in physics was upon us." A. Pais, Inward Bound, relating Lamb delivering his report at Shelter Island, p 451. "This effect was first measured in 1947 in the LambRetherford experiment on the hydrogen microwave spectrum and this measurement provided the stimulus for renormalization theory to handle the divergences. It was the harbinger of modern quantum electrodynamics developed by Julian Schwinger, Richard Feynman, Ernst Stueckelberg, Sin-Itiro Tomonaga and Freeman Dyson." "On Lamb's 65th birthday, Freeman Dyson addressed him as follows: "Those years, when the Lamb shift was the central theme of physics, were golden years for all the physicists of my generation. You were the first to see that this tiny shift, so elusive and hard to measure, would clarify our thinking about particles and fields."--Wikipedia on the Lamb Shift Elsewhere Dyson referred to the best place for experiment in physics to be in the world at that time was Columbia, with Rabi in charge, and where Lamb (Ph.D. under Oppenheimer) was doing his work on the hydrogen atom. In an interview Dyson remarked that hydrogen was the "most deeply explored" object in science, and that "if you don't understand the hydrogen atom, then you don't understand anything". When Lamb "using the new microwave measuring capacities" found that there was a discrepancy between theory and experiment regarding the hydrogen spectrum it was found to be, well, "deeply disturbing".--quotes from Freeman Dyson on "Web of Stories" online. This paper reprinted in "Quantum Electrodynamics" edited by Julian Schwinger (1958) paper 26.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of the discovery of the "Lamb shift" "Shortly after World War II, Lamb began his work to check the accuracy of the predictions of Paul Dirac as they related to the energy levels and spectral lines of hydrogen. Dirac's quantum mechanical theory predicted that the hydrogen atom had two possible energy states with equal energies. Lamb's accurate work using radiofrequency resonance techniques, reported in 1947, revealed that there was a minute difference in these energy levels. Small as it was, this Lamb shift necessitated a revision of the theory of the interaction of the electron with electromagnetic radiation. For this work Lamb was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics, which he shared with another leader of research at Columbia, Polykarp Kusch, with whom he had performed wartime research in developing microwave radar" (.Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists). Particle Physics: One Hundred Years of Discoveries: "First measurements of the fine structure of the hydrogen atom, the Lamb shift. Nobel prize to W.E. Lamb awarded in 1955 'for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum.'" IN: The Physical Review, Vol 72, No 3, August 1, 1947, pp. 241-243. Lancaster, PA., and New York, NY: American Physical Society, 1947. Quarto, original wrappers. Tiny bump to outer edge, otherwise fine. Rare in wrappers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. VERY GOOD/GOOD; FIRST EDITION; SIGNED BY HANS BETHE ON THE PAGE BEFORE THE TITLE PAGE; the pages are clean and unmarked and the binding is tight; the dust jacket has edge wear, chipping and browning to the spine and a tear on the front cover at the bottom; Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s).

8vo. Eigenh. Unterschrift auf gedr. Brochüre Fine Structure of the Hydrogen Atom". - 1955 wurde ihm der Nobelpreis für Physik verliehen.

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