Transuranium Elements by Glenn Seaborg, First Edition (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st EDITION. This copy is NEAR FINE; the text is clear, bright, and unmarked except for pencil price on fep; binding is tight, but pages show age and edges show some wear. The jacket is VG: intact , including perfect color and design, but small tears along edges and corners, signs of age. We have a five star rating because of our fulfilment success and because our descriptions are accurate. On foreign sales, because of the heavy weight of this book, we have to charge extra for shipping: however, we will only charge the difference between our regular shipping rate and the extra charge that the U.S.Post Office asks to ship the book. We guarantee: NO NASTY SURPRISES.

Red Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good DJ. Graphs, Tables, Drawings (illustrator). First Edition. 328 Pp.Red Cloth, Spine Gilt. First Printing. A Near Fine Book, No Marks, Hinges Tight, Virtually No Wear, Immaculate, Gilt Brilliant. Dj Price Clipped, Light Wear, A Few Closed Edge Tears With Associated Wrinkling But Only A Couple Of Tiny Chips. Very Faint Dampstaining Visible Mostly On Inside Of Dust Jacket, Also A Few Smal Internal Clear Tape Reinforcements.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 328 pages, gilt titles on grey cloth. A very good, generally clean, neat hard cover over all with minor shelf wear, binding solid, cream white but some light foxing at the endpapers and fore-edges. In a good, edge worn dust jacket with chipping at the margins.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Charts (illustrator). First Edition. First edition with complete number line, hardcover, has a subtle lean to the binding, light bumps with a touch of peeling to the spine ends and cover corners, rubbing with minor staining to the covers, a small scuff to the head of the front, and mild smudging to the edges of the text block. Overall, a solid, unmarked, Very Good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Charts (illustrator). 1st Edition. hardback book in near fine condition.

Hard Bound. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Original white cloth. From the library of Chemistry professor Herbert M. Clark, who worked on the Manhattan Project, with his name in ink. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Seaborg was co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1951 and received the Atomic Energy Commission's Enrico Fermi Award in 1959. Seaborg won his share of the Nobel Prize for the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of ten transuranium elements.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition [stated]. First Edition Stated. A Bright, Clean Copy, Gilt Brilliant. No Marks Except Stamps Of The Nsl Library On Endpaper And Title Pages, And A Small Library Handwritten Notation On Front Endpaper. Loss Of About Two Dozen Letters On Pp Xvi/Xvii Where The Two Pages Were Stuck Together And Separated, With Lost Paper Still Adhering To Opposite Page, But Text Meaning Still Clear. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xx, [2], 328, [4] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Tables. Bibliography. General Index. Name Index. Discoloration and ink note at top corner of fep. Glenn Theodore Seaborg (April 19, 1912 - February 25, 1999) was an American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned him a share of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His work led to his development of the actinide concept and the arrangement of the actinide series in the periodic table of the elements. Seaborg spent most of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He advised ten US Presidents - from Harry S. Truman to Bill Clinton - on nuclear policy and was Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971. He contributed to the Limited Test Ban Treaty, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Seaborg was the principal or co-discoverer of ten elements: plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium and element 106, which, while he was still living, was named seaborgium in his honor. He also discovered more than 100 atomic isotopes. Seaborg developed the extraction process used to isolate the plutonium for the second atomic bomb. This book is in part the result of the Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures. The transuranium elements are the chemical elements with atomic numbers greater than 92. All of these elements are unstable and decay radioactively into other elements. All of the elements with higher atomic numbers have been first discovered in the laboratory, with neptunium and plutonium later also discovered in nature. Trace amounts of neptunium and plutonium form in some uranium-rich rock, and small amounts are produced during atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons. Transuranic elements can be artificially generated synthetic elements, via nuclear reactors or particle accelerators. The half lives of these elements show a general trend of decreasing as atomic numbers increase. Heavy transuranic elements are difficult and expensive to produce, and their prices increase rapidly with atomic number.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xx, [2], 328, [4] pages. Illustrations (some with color). Fold-out Tables. Bibliography. General Index. Name Index. Discoloration and ink note at top corner of fep. Some DJ wear. Some black marks to fep and bottom edge Glenn Theodore Seaborg (April 19, 1912 - February 25, 1999) was an American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned him a share of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His work led to his development of the actinide concept and the arrangement of the actinide series in the periodic table of the elements. Seaborg spent most of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He advised ten US Presidents - from Harry S. Truman to Bill Clinton - on nuclear policy and was Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971. He contributed to the Limited Test Ban Treaty, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Seaborg was the principal or co-discoverer of ten elements: plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium and element 106, which, while he was still living, was named seaborgium in his honor. Seaborg developed the extraction process used to isolate the plutonium for the second atomic bomb. This book is in part the result of the Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures. The transuranium elements are the chemical elements with atomic numbers greater than 92. All of these elements are unstable and decay radioactively into other elements. All of the elements with higher atomic numbers have been first discovered in the laboratory, with neptunium and plutonium later also discovered in nature. Trace amounts of neptunium and plutonium form in some uranium-rich rock, and small amounts are produced during atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons. Transuranic elements can be artificially generated synthetic elements, via nuclear reactors or particle accelerators. The half lives of these elements show a general trend of decreasing as atomic numbers increase. Heavy transuranic elements are difficult and expensive to produce, and their prices increase rapidly with atomic number.

1st Edition. FIRST ADDITION OF "ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE PERIODIC TABLE SINCE MENDELEEV'S 19th century DESIGN" (Seaborg Obituary, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory). The paper includes 9 illustrations, two of which are periodic tables inclusive of Seaborg's addition. American scientists Glenn Seaborg (1912-1999) developed the â??actinide concept' "of heavy element electronic structure which predicted that the actinides - including the first eleven transuranium elements - would form a transition series analogous to the rare earth series of lanthanide elements" (ibid). Seaborg proposed the actinide concept in 1945, and a year later described his discoveries and the actinide concept in a paper - this paper -- "The Transuranium Elements" (Science 104 pp. 379-386, 25 October 1946). Seaborg's formulation of the concept of heavy element electronic structure showed how the transuranium elements fit into the periodic table. Seaborg noted that, "My theory required a major realignment of the periodic table of the elements." His concept became the foundation for many significant discoveries in heavy element research. "In 1946 [in this paper] Seaborg discovered that a major change was needed in the periodic table. Several elements that had been regarded as belonging to a fourth transition metal series were separated out from the main body of the periodic table to form the lanthanide and actinide series. Uranium is among these elements and is no longer regarded as a transition metal" (Scerri, The Periodic Table, 307) ALSO INCLUDED: Spiegelman and Kamen "propose a most interesting and highly significant concept of gene action. statingâ??Genes continually produce at different rates partial replicas of themselves which enter the cytoplasm'" (Lee, Protomorphology, 156). Sol Spiegelman was a pioneering molecular biologist whose discoveries accelerated the study of gene action and laid the foundations of recombinant DNA technology. CONDITION & DETAILS: Large 4to. Complete volume. Tightly bound in red buckram, gilt-lettered at the spine. Ex-libris with no exterior markings; light stamps on papers, otherwise bright and very clean throughout.