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Published by Brookhaven National Laboratory, Associated Universities, 1957
Seller: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. limited to 4400 copies; 61 pp., Paperback, slit to the fore edge of the front cover, small stain to the front cover, else very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.
Published by Brookhaven National Laboratory / Associated Universities, 1957
Seller: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. . . . . 8vo, paperback. Vg condition. Slight cover wear, contents clean, free of writing or marking. Stapled binding secure. 61 pp. Atomic, Forces, History, Physics,
Published by Literary Licensing, LLC, 2013
ISBN 10: 1258617544ISBN 13: 9781258617547
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: New.
Published by The American Physical Society / American Institute of Physics, 1957
Seller: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. 364 pp., softcover, faint wear to spine and cover edges else text clean & binding tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request.
Publication Date: 1955
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: VG. Lancaster, PA 1955 first edition. American Physical Society. Original green printed 4to wraps. Lee and Yang article p. 1501. Issue paginated 1213-1569. VG , almost no wear at all; owner name stamp (A. Oppenheim) on front cover; text clean and binding secure. Lee and Yang were awarded the Nobel prize in 1957 for their work on parity.
Published by American Institute of Physics, 1958
Seller: JF Ptak Science Books, Hendersonville, NC, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. T. D. Lee and C. N. Yang. "Low-Temperature Behavior of a Dilute Bose System of Hard Spheres. I. Equilibrium Properties". In: Physical Review, vol 112/5, 1 December 1958. Pp 1419-1429 in the issue of pp 1419-1827. Original wrappers. Near-fine copy. "By a generalization of the method used in a previous paper the distribution of energy levels of a dilute Bose system of hard spheres is found. These energy levels are then used to compute the statistical properties for the system. A phase transition is found, and the transition point is calculated to the lowest order of a, the diameter of the hard spheres. Furthermore, the thermodynamical functions of the system in both the gas phase and the degenerate phase are obtained." abstract from APS.
Published by The American Physical Society / American Institute of Physics, 1960
Seller: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. 313 pp., softcover, previous owner's name to upper corner of front cover, spine faded and lightly worn and discolored at bottom edge near back cover, light wear and creasing to back cover else text clean & binding tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request.
Published by The American Physical Society / American Institute of Physics, 1956
Seller: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. 298 pp., softcover, previous owner's name to upper corner of front cover, faint wear to spine edges else text clean & binding tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request.
Published by Lancaster American Physical Society, 1961
Book First Edition
(26,5 x 19,5 cm). SS. 1007-1982. Mit Abbildungen. Halbleinwandband der Zeit. Erste Ausgabe. - "Für ihre Forschungen über die Gesetze der Parität, die zu wichtigen Entdeckungen über die Elementarteilchen führt" werden Lee und Yang 1957 mit dem Nobelpreis für Physik ausgezeichnet. - Stempel auf Vorsatz, sonst sauber und gut erhalten.
Publication Date: 1959
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: VG. Lancaster, PA 1959 first edition. original bluegreen 4to wraps. volume 113, second series, number 5. The first presentation of the Lee Yang "Many Body Problem" appears on pp. 1165-77. Complete issue paginated 1163-1378. VG, just slight wear; no owner marks; text clean and binding secure. Pictures available on request.
Published by Lancaster American Physical Society, 1957
Book First Edition
(26,5 x 20 cm). SS. 1421-1682. Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. Original-Broschur. Erste Ausgabe dieser bedeutenden Arbeit. - Lee und Yang sagen die Möglichkeit der Paritätsverletzung bei schwacher Wechselwirkung vorher, die später von Wu experimentell bestätigt wird. "Für ihre Forschungen über die Gesetze der Parität, die zu wichtigen Entdeckungen über die Elementarteilchen führt" werden die beiden Forscher 1957 mit dem Nobelpreis für Physik ausgezeichnet. - Stempel auf Einband, sonst sauber und gut erhalten.
Publication Date: 1957
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: VG. Lancaster, PA 1957 first edition. American Physical Society. Original green printed 4to wraps. Lee and Yang article on pp. 1671-1675. Issue paginated 1421 to 1682. VG faint owner name stamp (A. Oppenheim) on front cover. Text clean; binding secure; no cover wear. Lee and Yang were awarded the Nobel prize in 1957 for their work on parity.
Published by American Physical Society, 1957
Seller: JF Ptak Science Books, Hendersonville, NC, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. This paper appears on pp 1671`-1675 in the MArch 1, 1957 issue of Physical review, volume 105 Number 5. 976 citations. Original green wrappers. VG copy.
Published by American Institute of Physics, Lancaster, 1952
Seller: Atticus Rare Books, West Branch, IA, U.S.A.
First Edition
1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of the first full version (both parts one and two) of the Lee-Yang theorem, two "seminal papers that became classics in the field of statistical mechanics" (Hu, Yang-Lee-Fisher Zeros). Yang and Lee state "that if partition functions of certain models in statistical field theory with ferromagnetic interactions are considered as functions of an external field, then all zeros are purely imaginary (or on the unit circle after a change of variable)" (Wikipedia). The first paper "proposed a general theory of phase transitions by studying the distribution of the roots of the grand partition function, thenceforth known as 'Yang-Lee zeroes.' The second paper applied the general theory to the lattice gas and the Ising model and obtained the famous 'Lee-Yang circle theorem'" (Hu). Lee and Yang's papers were "the dream of physicist's life-time accomplishment" (Zhu, Lee-Yang theorem, MIT). They provided a "new way of looking at the nature of phase transitions and suggested that. partition functions as functions of external fields (in the case of Ising model, this would be magnetic fields), whose domains can be extended to the complex plane" (ibid). Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Franklin Yang are Chinese born American physicists. They were jointly awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics for their theory that weak force interactions among elementary particles did not conserve parity (spatial symmetry). CONDITION & DETAILS: Lancaster: American Institute of Physics. 4to. 10.5 x 7.75 inches (262 x 194mm). Bound in original wraps rebacked. Very faint library stamps on the front and rear wrap as well as the first page; literally the stamps are very difficult to even see. Otherwise fine condition in every way.
Lancaster, American Institute of Physics, 1956. Lex8vo. Volume 104, October 1, No. 1, 1956 of "The Physical Review", Second Series. Entire volume offered. In the original printed blue wrappers. Minor bumpings to extremities and two small tears to bottom and right side of front wrapper. Otherwise a fine and clean copy. Pp. 254-58. [Entire issue: (2), 272 pp.]. First printing of Yang and Lee's seminal and topic-creating paper which proved that parity is not conserved in weak interactions. "The discovery of parity nonconservation contributed to a general change in the intellectual climate of fundamental physics, leading to a tendency to question the absolute validity of other conservation laws as well." (Kragh, Quantum Generations, pp. 318-9). Before 1956, the general belief was that parity conservation is never violated in nature, a firm paradigm that was not challenged until the publication of the present paper. Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee were awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles". Lee is the youngest Nobel laureate after WWII. It had earlier been suggested that parity might not be conserved but noone had been able to put forth compelling evidence. A careful review by Lee and Yang went further, showing that while parity conservation had been verified in decays by the strong or electromagnetic interactions, it was untested in the weak interaction. They proposed several possible direct experimental tests.When Lee and Yang's paper appeared in 1956, physicists were not immediately swept away by their ground breaking conclusions. The physicist Freeman Dyson wrote of his reaction to the paper: "A copy of it was sent to me and I read it. I read it twice. I said, `This is very interesting,' or words to that effect. But I had not the imagination to say, `By golly, if this is true it opens up a whole new branch of physics.' And I think other physicists, with very few exceptions, at that time were as unimaginative as I." Wolfgang Pauli wrote to Weisskopf after reading the paper: "Now after the first shock is over, I begin to collect myself. Yes, it was very dramatic. I am shocked not so much by the fact that the Lord prefers the left hand as by the fact that He still appears to be left-right symmetric when he expresses Himself strongly." (Kragh, Quantum Generations, pp. 319).The presented theory paved the way for a reconsideration of physical theories and led to new, far-reaching discoveries regarding the nature of matter and the universe. The removal of the restrictions imposed by parity law brought order to the theoretical chaos that existed with regard to subatomic particles elementary particles seen in cosmic rays and particle accelerator experiments were understood to be manifestations of the strong and weak nuclear interactions. Eventually the better understanding of their characteristics has led to a more unified theory of the fundamental universal forces of nature.
Published by American Physical Society, 1956
Seller: JF Ptak Science Books, Hendersonville, NC, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. "A rather complete theoretical structure has been shattered at the base and we are not sure how the pieces will be put together" I. Rabi__+__ YANG, C.N. and T.D. Lee. "Questions of Parity Conservation in Weak Interactions". The Physical Review, volume 104, October 1, No. 1, 1956. Article occupies pp. 254-58 in the entire issue of 272pp. Offered in the original wrappers, a fine copy. Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee were awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for their work "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles". The award was the climax of the most exciting year in postwar physics. Jeremy Bernstein, The New Yorker, 1962__+__ The importance of parity conservation, its fundamental nature, was discovered in 1927 by the physicist Eugene Wigner, Wigner proved that Laporte's rule was a consequence of right-left symmetry (or mirror image symmetry) of the electromagnetic force. Conservation of parity rested upon Maxwell's equations describing electromagnetism, but more important, the intuitive idea that nature should be left-right symmetric had been established on the quantum level. Thus, when in 1949, the weak force was postulated to explain disintegration of elementary particles, physicists could not conceive that parity conservation would not hold for reactions involving the weak force. It was a minor oversight however that there was no direct evidence for the extension of this law to the fourth force of nature. Seven years later physicists would come full circle to question their acceptance of parity conservation __+__ The new province of weak interactions had not been tested before Lee and Yang made the suggestion. Nevertheless, the physicists' assumption that nature will present a simple understanding is unflailing. Chen Ning Yang has stated, "In the study of nature, one believes in something simple underlying all". Madame Wu agrees, "One hopes that nature possesses an order that one may aspire to comprehend. When we arrive at an understanding, we shall marvel how neatly all the elementary particles fit into the great scheme." Violation of the law of conservation of parity, then, should lead one to search for an even more fundamental symmetry to the universe. --Symmetry Destroyed: The Failure of Parity, 1984 Krishna Myneni.
Lancaster, American Institute of Physics, 1956. Lex8vo. Volume 104, October 1, No. 1, 1956 of "The Physical Review", Second Series. Entire volume offered. In the original printed blue wrappers. Minor bumping and sunning to extremities, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Pp. 254-58. [Entire issue: Pp. (2), 272 pp.]. First printing of Yang and Lee's seminal and topic-creating paper which proved that parity is not conserved in weak interactions. "The discovery of parity nonconservation contributed to a general change in the intellectual climate of fundamental physics, leading to a tendency to question the absolute validity of other conservation laws as well." (Kragh, Quantum Generations, pp. 318-9). Before 1956, the general belief was that parity conservation is never violated in nature, a firm paradigm that was not challenged until the publication of the present paper. Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee were awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles". Lee is the youngest Nobel laureate after WWII. It had earlier been suggested that parity might not be conserved but noone had been able to put forth compelling evidence. A careful review by Lee and Yang went further, showing that while parity conservation had been verified in decays by the strong or electromagnetic interactions, it was untested in the weak interaction. They proposed several possible direct experimental tests.When Lee and Yang's paper appeared in 1956, physicists were not immediately swept away by their ground breaking conclusions. The physicist Freeman Dyson wrote of his reaction to the paper: "A copy of it was sent to me and I read it. I read it twice. I said, `This is very interesting,' or words to that effect. But I had not the imagination to say, `By golly, if this is true it opens up a whole new branch of physics.' And I think other physicists, with very few exceptions, at that time were as unimaginative as I." Wolfgang Pauli wrote to Weisskopf after reading the paper: "Now after the first shock is over, I begin to collect myself. Yes, it was very dramatic. I am shocked not so much by the fact that the Lord prefers the left hand as by the fact that He still appears to be left-right symmetric when he expresses Himself strongly." (Kragh, Quantum Generations, pp. 319).The presented theory paved the way for a reconsideration of physical theories and led to new, far-reaching discoveries regarding the nature of matter and the universe. The removal of the restrictions imposed by parity law brought order to the theoretical chaos that existed with regard to subatomic particles elementary particles seen in cosmic rays and particle accelerator experiments were understood to be manifestations of the strong and weak nuclear interactions. Eventually the better understanding of their characteristics has led to a more unified theory of the fundamental universal forces of nature.
Published by American Inst, Lancaster, PA and New York, NY, 1956
Seller: Manhattan Rare Book Company, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION in original wrappers of Lee and Yang's groundbreaking proposal to determine the nature of parity in weak interactions; essential to the modern understanding of elementary particles. "Following a suggestion made by the experimenter Martin Block, who was his room-mate at a conference in 1956 (at Rochester, in New York), Richard Feynman made the heretical proposal to the meeting that the theta and tau are different states of the same particle, which itself has no definite parity, and that parity is not always conserved. The idea was quickly taken up by Chen Ning Yang and Tsung Dao Lee, who showed that parity is not conserved in the weak interaction; their theory was immediately tested and proved correct by Chien Shiung Wu, and Yang and Lee received the Nobel Prize for their work in 1957- one of the quickest such awards ever made" (Gribbin, Q is for Quantum). "Although physicists still did not understand it, they appreciated the import of the discovery that nature distinguished right from left in its core. Other symmetries were immediately implicated- the correspondence between matter and antimatter, and the reversibility of time. As one scientist put it, 'We are no longer trying to handle screws in the dark with heavy gloves. We are being handed the screws neatly aligned on a tray, with a little searchlight on each that indicates the direction of its head'" (Gleick, Genius). Particle Physics, One Hundred Years of Discoveries: "Proposals to test spatial parity conservation in weak interactions. Nobel prize to T.D. Lee and C.N. Yang awarded in 1957 'for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws, which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles." In: The Physical Review, Second Series, Vol 104, No. 1, pp. 254-258. Lancaster, PA and New York, NY: American Institute of Physics, 1956. Quarto, original printed wrappers; custom box. Owner stamp on front wrapper and closed tear at top of front wrapper; light fading to spine; generally fine.