Alvarez. Adventures of a Physicist. SIGNED BY LUIS ALVAREZ TO EDWIN MCMILLAN.

ALVAREZ, Luis W. [McMILLAN, Edwin]

Published by New York: Basic Books, 1987.

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xii, 292 pp. Original cloth. Very Good. First Edition. SIGNED BY NOBEL LAUREATE LUIS ALVAREZ TO NOBEL LAUREATE EDWIN MCMILLAN: "For Ed McMillan, an old and/ important friend, as this story tells./ Luis W. Alvarez" (see photos). Alvarez makes many references to McMillan (see photo): pp. 36, 58, 75, 86-87, 91, 154-58, 162-64, 171, 173-75, 213, 253. The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 was awarded to Luis Walter Alvarez "for his decisive contributions to elementary particle physics, in particular the discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possible through his development of the technique of using hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis." The Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1951 was awarded jointly to Edwin Mattison McMillan and Glenn Theodore Seaborg "for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alvarez. Adventures of a Physicist. SIGNED BY LUIS ALVAREZ TO EDWIN MCMILLAN.
• Publisher: New York: Basic Books, 1987.
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)