D R Oppenheimer (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ Dust Jacket. First Edition. 1st printing, as stated. Interior appears free of markings. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square. Corners sharp, boards look great. Unclipped DJ has faint sunning to spine/rubbing, otherwise book is almost like new. From a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with jacket. Very good condition. Light edgewear to the jacket; very slight nick to the rear leading edge. Pages are clean; all text is clear. CM. Used.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition hardback with association letter signed by editor D. R. Oppenheimer, 1985, in an unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition in a good dust jacket with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - dj rubbed and lightly tanned to spine and edges; blue cloth boards with contrasting black spine generally clean and crisp. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read; no annotation or inscriptions; text bright and clear throughout. Includes a letter from editor David Oppenheimer to a Mansel Davies mentioning Englefieldâs books. Not an old library book. Signed by Editor.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Publication of 148 pages. Frontispiece in color. The boards are in fine condition. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine-. 1st ed. Maroon cloth cover. xv+192; trivial small brown rectangular label ghost top front endpaper, small bump lower front joint otherwise virtually pristine; jacket has small rectangular clip top front pastedown and small scrape/bump lower front hinge corresponding to joint bump, otherwise clean and unworn bar trace of rubbing down back outer edge and some loss of surface sheen visible when viewed at angle. Thin red line to bottom of textbook, annoying but only visible from underneath. Posthumously edited published (author died in 80s in 1975).

Original publisher's sewn orange paperback, title spine and frontcover, 3rd revised edition [1910 & 1922], large 8vo: [vi], 82pp., footnotes, bibliographical notes, table of contents. Untrimmed. Fine copy.

Contemporary yellow cloth hardback, original frontcover mounted on, title spine and frontcover, 2nd edition [1910], large 8vo: x, 230pp., footnotes, bibliographical notes, table of contents. Untrimmed. Fine copy.

Original publisher's sewn orange paperback, title spine and frontcover, large 8vo: x, 230pp., footnotes, bibliographical notes, table of contents. Library-label. Fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 148 pages (complete). A special edition of the Anglo American published trade information magazine, Optima, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the giant mining conglomerate. The book has been subjected to damp storage conditions. The bottom edges of the book and contents are wrinkled and very mildly stained. The cover is benign if worn. The spine is injured at the foot. The spine is healthy and sure. The covers are dignified and sound. The contents are sober, diligent, clear, confident, assured and congratulatory. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

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Original Cardboard. Condition: Very Good. 158 pp. English text. + 488 pp. Hebrew text. Lower and upper hinges 3cm open, Foxing on upper edges. Otherwise a very good, clean and fresh copy - Shipping worldwide included.

FULL VOLUME 1st EDITION OF THREE LANDMARK PAPERS, each of seminal import in the history of physics. FEYNMAN'S "Forces in molecules" is the first edition of Feynman's undergraduate thesis, the paper that began to establish his name in physics. Published when he was just twenty-one, his work here a fundamental discovery "that has played an important role in theoretical chemistry and condensed matter physics" (Selected Papers, p. 1). This extraordinary work documents the first steps in original research of one of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century. Feynman showed in this paper that "the force on an atom's nucleus is no more or less than the electrical force from the surrounding field of charged electrons - the electrostatic force. Once the distribution of charge has been calculated quantum mechanically, then from that point forward quantum mechanics disappears from the picture. The problem becomes classical; the nuclei can be treated as static points of mass and charge. Feynman's approach applies to all chemical bonds. If two nuclei act as though strongly attracted to each other, as the hydrogen nuclei do when they bond to form a water molecule, it is because the nuclei are each drawn toward the electrical charge concentrated quantum mechanically between them" (Gleick, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman). The paper is known as the Feynman-Hellmann theorem and it proposed an original and enduring approach to calculating forces in molecules. Feynman "treated the problem of molecular forces from a thoroughly quantum-mechanical point of view, arriving at a simple means of calculating the energy of a molecular system that continues to guide quantum chemists" (DSB). "Feynman was one of the most creative and influential physicists of the twentieth century. A veteran of the Manhattan Project of World War II and a 1965 Nobel laureate in physics, he made lasting contributions across many domains, from electrodynamics and quantum theory to nuclear and particle physics, solid-state physics, and gravitation" (ibid). BOHR & WHEELER'S "The mechanism of nuclear fission" is the first fully worked out theory of nuclear fission and it laid the groundwork for atomic and hydrogen bombs"The paper is a masterpiece of clear thinking and lucid writing. It reveals, at the center of the mystery of fission, a tiny world where everything can be calculated and everything understood. The tiny world is a nucleus of uranium 236, formed when a neutron is freshly captured by a nucleus of uranium 235. The uranium 236 nucleus sits precisely on the border between classical and quantum physics" By studying this process in detail, they show how the complementary views provided by classical and quantum pictures are both essential to the understanding of nature. Without the combined power of classical and quantum concepts, the intricacies of the fission process could never have been understood. Bohr's notion of complementarity is triumphantly vindicated" (Barrow, Science and Ultimate Reality, xvii). OPPENHEIMER & SNYDER'S "On continued gravitational contraction" constitutes the very first theoretical prediction of a singularity when a sufficiently large neutron star collapses -- the extraordinary correct physical description of what happens in a particular collapse of a neutron star. This phenomenon was later to be coined as a black hole. "Had J. Robert Oppenheimer not led the US effort to build the atomic bomb, he might still have been remembered for figuring out how a black hole could form" (American Physical Society). This paper has been described as the forgotten birth of black holes. Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1939. Royal 8vo. (10.5 x 8 inches); 267 x 203 mm. Entire volume in contemporary full black cloth, gilt-lettered at the spine. Ex-libris with NO spine markings & bearing only a small, largely invisible perforated stamp at the foot of the title page. Tightly and very solidly bound. Bright and very clean throughout. Near fine condition.