Nuclear Physics, Signed (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 5 books -- The Infancy of Atomic Physics: Hercules in His Cradle. Keller, Alex. Oxford. 1983. 230p. ex-library hardcover with dust jacket with the usual library stamps/marks/card pocket, text clean/unmarked + Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939-49. Jim Baggott. Published by Icon Books Ltd, 2015. 576p. Trade paperback, covers bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean/unmarked + THE GREAT AMERICAN BOMB MACHINE. Roger Rapoport. Dutton 1972. 160p. hardcover with dust jacket, dust jacket lightly bumped/scuffed/chip back dj/price clipped, boards clean/square, binding tight, text clean/unmarked, NOT xlib + With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush, and Nuclear War, Scheer, Robert, Vintage, 1983, 312p, trade pb, covers bumped/scuffed/creased, text clean, solid binding, SIGNED/INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR + America, God and the Bomb: The Legacy of Ronald Reagan, Fred H. Knelman, 0919573762 , New Star Books, 1988, 478p, pb, covers bumped/scuffed, CLEAN text, solid binding --20.00 for all 5. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: As New. SIGNED and INSCRIBED on endpaper by author. Octavo, softcover, as new in b & w wraps. 420 pp. clean, unmarked. A humorous take on the polycosmos and one man's attempt to live in it. Jeremy Fade is a desperate man. An engineer turned salesman, a father and husband, he sees ghosts. He would like to resist reality, but reality has a forceful way of intruding itself. Finally, a ghost speaks to him, and his life changes forever. These are ghosts of science fiction, born of the human mind, lingering presences that reinforce human survival strategies. Fade's middle daughter Angua needs help; his oldest has begun on a bad path, while his young son, he finds, is a mystery to him. But how does he address these problems when a ghost brings him news of an Islamist terror plot? Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Signed by author on title page; two other unknown signatures on inside back cover. Text is unmarked; binding is tight; covers are crisp and show little wear other than some tanning to the spine. Includes a Who's Who in this Book, and The Origin of Names & Symbols. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. SIGNED by the author. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Heavy wear to the dust jacket with wrinkling, creasing, and some soiling. Moderate wear to the boards with light bowing. Slightly cocked spine.Tight binding. Clean interior apges. Secure packaging for safe delivery. signed by author.

Condition: As New. CHAU2154? This is a vintage letter fully hand written by Professor Dr Walter Gerlach which was part of a collection from a medical student in the 1970s and 80s writing to historic doctors and surgeons. It is approx?8" x 6" in mint condition - please note the background sheet also shown in the listing is just?from the album page and for reference but I will send to the purchaser but the letter is a separate loose item which is from 1973 and is fully hand written and signed by Professor Goldblatt. Please see all my other scientist and surgeon autographs from this same collection.Walther Gerlach was a German physicist who co-discovered, through laboratory experiment, spin quantization in a magnetic field, the SternGerlach effect. The experiment was conceived by Otto Stern in 1921 and successfully conducted first by Gerlach in early 1922.?From 1937 until 1945, Gerlach was a member of the supervisory board of the Kaiser-WilhelmGesellschaft (KWG) .On 1 January 1944, Gerlach officially became head of the physics section of the Reichsforschungsrat (RFR, Reich Research Council) and Bevollm???chtigter (plenipotentiary) of nuclear physics, replacing Abraham Esau. In April of that year, he founded the Reichsberichte f???r Physik, which were official reports appearing as supplements to the Physikalische Zeitschrift. After 1946, he continued to be an influential official in its successor organization after World War II, the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG).From May 1945, Gerlach was interned in France and Belgium by British and American Armed Forces under Operation Alsos. From July of that year to January 1946, he was interned in England at Farm Hall under Operation Epsilon, which interned 10 German scientists who were thought to have participated in the development of atomic weapons.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good+ condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good- condition (DJ). Second edition. xviii, 451 pages of text including an index. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. The price-clipped dustjacket is browned on the spine and back panel, has a crease on the front panel, and is lightly shelfworn; protected in archival mylar. Illustrated in black and white; with photos by the author, and with drawings by Chichi Lasley. ASSOCIATION COPY: Contains a inscription from one metallurgist to another. Inscribed on the front endpaper "To Dr. Henry Seiki Inouye with the author's appreciation and warm personal regards [signed] Harvey B. Lemon (at least you don't have to read it)." LEMON was a consultant to UofC Metallurgical lab during the Manhattan Project. He also worked as the Chief Physicist and Head of the Rocket Branch at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. He became the Science and Education Director at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. INOUYE: After enlisting and serving with distinction in the US Army, awarded the Purple Heart and other citations and medals, and achieving the rank of First Sergeant Inouye worked 38 years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He was the recipient of 8 patents, including one for the iridium alloy INOR-8, which was used in cladding the nuclear power systems of deep-space missions such as Voyager and Cassini. Second edition, fifth impression. The text is clean and unmarked. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Includes: illustrations, diagrams, index. xix, 543, corrigendum, Fold-outs. Occasional footnotes. References. Tables. Author Index. Subject Index. Prof. Rosenfeld is one of the leading theoretical physicists of to-day and is distinguished not only for his great original contributions to the most difficult and deep parts of modern quantum mechanics and nuclear structure, but also for his wide knowledge and scholarship. He is now completing a book on the quantum theory of nuclear forces which should prove valuable to all theoretical workers on nuclear structure. In his new position in Manchester he will add greatly to the strength of theoretical physics in England. He will be in very close touch with the experimental researches being carried out in the laboratory of Prof. P. M. S. Blackett. The nuclear force (or nucleon nucleon interaction or residual strong force) is the force between protons and neutrons, subatomic particles that are collectively called nucleons. The nuclear force is responsible for binding protons and neutrons into atomic nuclei. Neutrons and protons are affected by the nuclear force almost identically. Since protons have charge +1 e, they experience a strong electric field repulsion (following Coulomb's law) that tends to push them apart, but at short range the attractive nuclear force overcomes the repulsive electromagnetic force. The mass of a nucleus is less than the sum total of the individual masses of the protons and neutrons which form it. The difference in mass between bound and unbound nucleons is known as the mass defect. Energy is released when some large nuclei break apart, and it is this energy that is used in nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Good in poor dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Some page discoloration. DJ worn, torn, soiled with tears and chips. Presumed first U. S. edition/first printing. Part II pub. 1949.

GUHA, Manindra C. THE ELEMENTS OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1953. black faux-leather in the original, fragile dust jacket; 152 pages. First Edition. This book is an outgrowth of a lecture course given by Guha, who was head of the Physics Department at Huntington University in Indiana. Signed presentation from Guha on the front endpaper: "Nov. 1953. To one who serves humanity, Prasanto K. Basu. Manindra Chandra Guha." Basu was a professor at the University of Calcutta. With the small ink stamp of the Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama Vrindaban Library on the front & rear endpapers and with a small label giving Guha's address tipped to the front pastedown. A rare book, especially inscribed by the author! Very Good (contents clean & tight); little soil with several chips & tears (minor stain) d/j. $150.00.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 3 pages. Horizontal crease. Very Good. Quoting from Wikipedia: "On September 16, 1952, Pauling opened a new research notebook with the words 'I have decided to attack the problem of the structure of nuclei.' On October 15, 1965, Pauling published his Close-Packed Spheron Model of the atomic nucleus in two well respected journals, Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. For nearly three decades, until his death in 1994, Pauling published numerous papers on his spheron cluster model. . . . In an interview given in 1990 Pauling commented on his model: 'Now recently, I have been trying to determine detailed structures of atomic nuclei by analyzing the ground state and excited state vibrational bends, as observed experimentally. From reading the physics literature, Physical Review Letters and other journals, I know that many physicists are interested in atomic nuclei, but none of them, so far as I have been able to discover, has been attacking the problem in the same way that I attack it. So I just move along at my own speed, making calculations, and I don't worry about someone else publishing their results a month before I publish mine'." Jeremy Bernstein had written a piece for the New York Times (April 28, 1982) entitled "Accepting Scientific Ideas". Linus Pauling begins this letter to Jeremy Bernstein by saying he read Bernstein's piece "with much interest". Bernstein had written: "there should be some support, I think, for people with solid scientific credentials who, for their own reasons, refuse to swim in the same stream as the rest of us. This raises the very important question of how a scientist can tell an unconventional idea from a crank idea. I say 'scientist' because I do not think a nonscientist can make this judgment at all. In fact, I do not think that most scientists can do it in fields that are far removed from their own. . . . In my own field, the physics of elementary particles, I have occasion to encounter papers by people I have not heard of and that, at first sight, seem a little crazy but that, upon closer examination, turn out to be quite interesting. When I receive such a paper, I ask myself three questions: 1. Does it explain anything? 2. Does it predict anything? 3. Is it connected to anything?" By 1982, Pauling's "polyspheron theory of nuclear structure" had been before the scientific world for 17 years, but it had made no impact at all. In this letter, Pauling answers Bernstein's three questions in the affirmative for the polyspheron theory of nuclear structure. Then Pauling writes in his letter: "during the 17 years after the publication of my first paper there has not, so far as I know, appeared a single reference to any of my papers in papers written by other physicists and published in Physical Review, Physical Review Letters, or other physics journals. . . . I am not very concerned about the failure of nuclear physicists to be interested in what I have written, but I must say that I do feel that nuclear physics would benefit if the physicists were to attempt to understand nuclei in the way that I have done.". Signed by Author(s).