Donald Glaser (20 results)
More imagesPublished by Ploughshares Inc, Cambridge, 1982
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Seller: biblioboy, North Providence, RI, U.S.A.biblioboy
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Add to basketpaperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Including an interview with Robert Bly, and stories by Marty Lammon, Frank Bidart, Eugenio Montale, Margo Lockwood and Eleni Fourtouni, poetry, reviews, and art by Ralph Hamilton] VG or better copy slight spine cocking, front cover creasing with the publication date added by hand t…o the spine. See photo clph.
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Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1961
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961. First edition, first printing. "First printing" statement to the copyright page, 1961 to the title page, $3.00 to the jacket's flap. A standalone mystery featuring professional gentleman gambler Neil MacFarla…nd on the Riviera, who is enlisted to pay his debts by playing in a high stakes private game--but his debt-payers are a group of criminals who violently rob the game players, and the suspenseful mystery really begins. The fifth mystery by the author and educated criminal, who wrote several of his mysteries in jail. Hairline crack to the front inner hinge as usual, else very good plus in polished black linen with bright yellow embossed titles to the front cover and to the spine, red-and-yellow headband and tail-band, upper page edges yellow; in a near fine dust jacket with art by Milton Glaser, with a still bright and UN-faded violet spine panel, with minuscule rubbed crimps to the upper and lower spine edges, and a tiny creased tear to the front panel's upper edge; original printed $3.00 price still intact to the front inner flap. Milton Glaser (illustrator).
Pharmacology of the central nervous system. / Clinical neurology.,.
Baker, Walter W / Gilbert H. Glaser, Donald P. Granger & D,C. Higgins.
Published by Progr. Neurol. Psychiatry. XVII, 101-163, (1962),, 1962
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Seller: Antiquariat Petri, Jena, GermanyAntiquariat Petri
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Add to basketSC. Condition: Gut. Obr., 62, in gutem Zustand, [APB1,5b] (Slg). Deu 400g.
Published by Artforum, 1992
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Add to basketEncuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. Dust Jacket Condition: Bien. Essays "Books: Mim Udovitch on Barry Williams' 'Growing Up Brady,'" by Mim Udovitch; "Film: Scott Bukatman on Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner,'" by Scott Bukatman; "Head to Toe: Rhonda Lieberman on Glamour Wounds, Again," by Rhonda Lieberman; "Real Life Ro…ck: Greil Marcus' Top Ten," by Greil Marcus; "Ecoculture: Andrew Ross' Weather Report,'" by Andrew Ross; "Lari Pittman: The August Vigilante," by Dennis Cooper and Yancy C.; "Sweet Thing," by Dan Cameron; "Critical Reflections," by Greg Tate with and introduction by Greil Marcus; "Drawn and Colored," by Deborah Irmas; "Skin and Bolts," by Marianna Torgovnick; "Spooky Electricity: An Interview with Friedrich Kittler," by Laurence Rickels; "Dangerous Games: Xavier Veilhan," by Olivier Zahm; "Culture," by Glenn O'Brien; "Bruce Conner: The Gnostic Strain," by Greil Marcus; "OpeningsL Beverly Semmes," by Catherine Liu; "Bookforum: Season's Readings," reviews by David Rimanelli, Mason Klein, Arthur C. Danto, Meyer Raphael Rubinstein, Alice Yaeger Kaplan, Sheila F. Glaser, Ramona Naddaff, Dan Cameron, Keith Seward, Patricia C. Phillips, Lisa Liebmann, Sydney Pokorny, Robert Farris Thompson, Amy Baker Sandback, Justin Spring. Reviews by Keith Seward, Justin Spring, Patricia C. Phillips, Olivier Zahm, Donald Kuspit, Jan Avgikos, Joshua Decter, Andrew Perchuk, Barry Schwabsky, Linda Yablonsky, K. Marriott Jones, Lois Nesbitt, Kirby Gookin, Ronny Cohen, Francine Koslow Miller, G.S. Trow, James Yood, Maria Porges, Amy Gerstler, David Pagel, Benjamin Weissman, John K. Grande, Carlos Basualdo, Alexandre Melo, José Luis Brea, Massimo Carboni, Giorgio Verzotti, Miriam Rosen, Claudia Jolles, Justin Hoffmann, Norbert Messler, Noemi Smolik, Sabine B. Vogel, Peter Funken, Lars O. Ericsson, Marek Bartelik, Michael Corris, Michael Archer, Charles Green. Cover: Lari Pittman.
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Add to basketKein Einband. Condition: Gut. Foto bildseitig signiert von dem amerikanischen Physiker und Nobelpreisträger Donald Glaser (1926-2013) . Photo signed by Glaser. Vom Wissenschaftler signiert. Photo.
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Seller: Eberhard Köstler Autographen&Bücher oHG, Tutzing, GermanyEberhard Köstler Autographen&Bücher oHG
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Add to basketOhne Ort, ohne Jahr, 10,5 x 15 cm. 1 Seite. Glaser wurde 1960 "für die Erfindung der Blasenkammer" mit dem Nobelpreis für Physik ausgezeichnet. 1970 gründete er das weltweit erste Biotechnologie-Unternehmen.
Published by The Art Digest New York, NY, 1965
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Seller: Specific Object / David Platzker, New York, NY, U.S.A.Specific Object / David Platzker
Contact seller5-star seller194 pp.; 30.3 x 23 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Annual periodical edited by William Seitz, "Contemporary Sculpture : Arts Yearbook 8," is a compendium of essays on sculpture of the early 1960s. This volume contains the first publication of Donald Judd's s…eminal essay "Specific Objects," as well as Judd's review of the Howard and Jean Lipman Collection. Additional texts by Seitz, Robert Goldwater, Sidney Geist, Gene Baro, Clement Greenberg, Werner Hofmann, Vivien Raynor, Annette Michelson, Martica Sawin, Dora Vallier, Anita Ventura, Mercedes Molleda, José María Moreno Galván, Bruce Glaser, Lyman Kipp, George Sugarman, David Weinrib, Richard Stankiewicz, Richard Hamilton, George Rickey, Herbert Bronstein, Anne Hoene, Jacqueline Barnitz, Margaret Buhler. Contains commentary and illustrations of works by David Smith, Alexander Calder, Jacques Lipchitz, Reuben Nakian, Louise Nevelson, Richard Hunt, James Rosati, Raoul Hague, Edward Higgins, Fritz Bultman, Isamu Noguchi, Gabriel Kohn, Naum Gabo, Peter Agostini, Louise Bourgeois, Peter Grippe, Mark di Suvero, Mike Nevelson, George Spaventa, Dimitri Hadzi, Paul von Ringelheim, Jason Seley, Frederick Kiesler, Lyman E. Kipp, Wilfrid Zogbaum, Paul Granlund, Jack Squier, Italo Scanga, Anthony Caro, Fritz Wotruba, Costantino Nivola, Miguel Berrocal, William King, Etienne Hajdu, Manuel Neri, Eduardo Chillida, Pablo Serrano, Anne Arnold, Mary Frank, Alvin Light, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Hans Arp, Rudolf Hoflehner, Robert Jacobsen, Etienne-Martin, Alberto Giacometti, Giacomo Manzu, William Turnbull, Kenneth Armitage, Max Bill, Robert Müller, Lynn Chadwick, Shamai, Haber, Reg Butler, Hubert Dalwood, Robert Adams, Eugene Dodeigne, Elizabeth Frink, Emil Cimiotti, Yitzchak Danziger, jean Ipoustéguy, Lee Bontecou, James Wines, Ronald Bladen. Judd's "Specific Objects" is illustrated with works by Claes Oldenburg, Bontecou, Robert Rauschenberg, George Ortman, Yves Klein, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Phillip King, Richard Smith, John Anderson, Tony Delap, Robert Watts, H.C. Westermann, Robert Morris, Dan Flavin, Richard Artschwager, Lucas Samaras, Yayoi Kusama, John Chamberlain. Good. Former library copy. Moderate rubbing to covers and bumping to edges and corners. "1965" written in blue pen on spine and on recto. 2 cm. tear to spine. "3339" written in blue pen twice on title page and once on inside of recto which also has a name plate for the Library of the San Francisco Museum of Art. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Due to large size and weight additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.
Published by American Physical Society, 1953
Seller: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.Zubal-Books, Since 1961
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. pp. 505-773; original printed paper wrappers, noted physicist Christian Moller's copy, with his hand stamps to the front cover, very good; includes contributions by Schwinger, Birkhoff, Slater, among others. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment on…ce ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.
More imagesFour association copies: The Machinery of Nature; The Golden Door; A World of Wounds; Population, Resources, Environment
Ehrlich, Paul (signed); Anne Ehrlich; Thomas Lovejoy; Stephen J Gould; Donald Glaser; Joseph Tydings (inscribed to)
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First editions. A collection of four books by renown populations biologist and public intellectual Paul Ehrlich, all significant association copies inscribed respectively to Stephen J. Gould, Thomas Lovejoy, Nobel-winner Donald Glaser, and US Senator Joseph Tydin…gs. Ehrlich is best known for his deeply influential and controversial book The Population Bomb(1968)about overpopulation and resource scarcity, a topic which has defined his career and perhaps overshadowed his distinguished achievements in ecology and conservation biology (including classic butterfly studies). The book was called alarmist by some, but Ehrlich years later said that"perhaps the most serious flaw inThe Bombwas that it was much too optimistic about the future."Here are four books that followed The Population Bomb,listed by earliest publication; several are co-authored by Paul Ehrlich's wife Anne Ehrlich (who is often under-recognized in their important partnership), and the first is also inscribed by Anne: 1) Paul Ehrlich and Anne Ehrlich.Population, Resources, Environment: Issues in Human Ecology.San Francisco: Freeman and company, 1970. Inscribed on the title page to Joesph Tydings, former Democratic US Senator from Maryland from 1965-1971: "Joe--I think you know how much my colleagues and I appreciate your unflagging support. A few more senators like you and we may all live to see the year 2000. Fight on! Paul." An inscription from Anne follows: "Looking forward to meeting you someday soon--Anne Ehrlich." Uncommon signed, with no other copies available online as of this writing. The book is described as "the first comprehensive, detailed analysis of the worldwide crisis of overpopulation and the resulting demands on food, resources, and the environment. Taking a broad ecological aproach, the Ehrilichs demonstrate that problems of modern society such as environmental deterioration, hunger, resource depletion, and war are closely interconnected and that together they constitute a challenge without precedent in human history." Tydings was an environmentally-minded Senator and is mentioned on page 288 of the book in relation to bill he introduced to establish an office of environmental quality that could review and delay environmentallydamaging federal projects.Several years after the publication of this book, in1972, he also argued Eisenstadt v. Baird before the Supreme Court, the decision of which legalized birth control for single persons, something previously illegal in many states. A near fine book with some sunning to edges of endpapers; in a very good plus jacket with some light curling, creasing, wear, small nicks to edges. 2) Paul Ehrlich, Loy Bilderback, and Anne Ehrlich.The Golden Door: International Migration, Mexico, and the United States. NY: Ballantine Books, 1979. First edition. Inscribed to Thomas Lovejoy: "To Tom, with warm regards and admiration, Paul and Anne." The inscription is in Paul's hand, but Anne has signed separately. Laid in is a bookseller's posthumous bookplate.Lovejoy is known as "the godfather of biological diversity," having introduced the term in 1980, and helped shape the field of conservation biology. Thisbook by the Ehrlichs and their coauthor examines the immigration question from all sides. Near fine with faint foxing to text block faces in a very good jacket with sunning to spine and modest wear to corners. 3) Paul Ehrlich.The Machinery of Nature.NY: Simon and Schuster, 1986. Inscribed to Nobel prize-winner Donald Glaser: "For Don, with best wishes. This was developed to explain population biology to non-scientists -- some of our butterfly work is explained in Chapter 2 and coevolution in Chapter 4. Paul." Uncommon signed, with no copies available online as of this writing. Glaser was a physicist at UC Berkeley who won the Nobel in 1960 for his invention of the bubble chamber, which is used for studying high energy beams in a particle accelerator, thus expanding our knowledge of the subatomic universe. Subsequently he left physics. Signed.
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Add to basketPostkarte. Condition: Gut. Blanko-Postkarte mit aufgedruckter Bezeichnung von Donald Arthur Glaser mit schwarzem Stift signiert /// Autogramm Autograph signiert signed signee /// Donald Arthur Glaser (* 21. September 1926 in Cleveland, Ohio; ? 28. Februar 2013 in Berkeley, Kalifornien ) war ein US-amerikanischer Physiker, Moleku…larbiologe, Neurobiologe und Nobelpreisträger. Donald Arthur Glaser wurde am 21. September 1926 als Sohn des Geschäftsmannes William J. Glaser und seiner Frau Lena Glaser in Cleveland/Ohio geboren. Nach dem Besuch öffentlicher Schulen in Cleveland Heights studierte er Physik und Mathematik am Case Institute of Technology. Nach seinem B.S. 1946 lehrte er ein Semester am Case Institute of Technology. Er ging im Herbst des Jahres an das California Institute of Technology und promovierte dort 1950 in Mathematik und Physik. Er erhielt bereits 1949 eine Dozentenstelle an der physikalischen Fakultät der Universität von Michigan und wurde 1957 zum Professor ernannt, 1959 wechselte er an die University of California, Berkeley. 1962 wurde er in die National Academy of Sciences, 1997 in die American Philosophical Society[2] und 2003 in die American Academy of Arts and Sciences gewählt. Glaser heiratete 1960 Ruth Bonnie Thompson, mit der er zwei Kinder hatte: die Kinderärztin Louise Ferris Addison und den CEO eines Unternehmens aus der Computerbranche, William Thompson Glaser. Er heiratete 1975 die Malerin Lynn Bercovitz. Werk Der Forschungsschwerpunkt Glasers in seinen frühen Jahren lag im Bereich der Elementarteilchenphysik, wobei sein Interesse in den experimentellen Techniken lag, die in diesem Bereich hilfreich sein könnten. So konstruierte er mehrere Diffusions-Nebelkammern und Funkenzähler und entwickelte die Ideen, die 1952 in die Erfindung der Blasenkammer mündeten. In den folgenden Jahren entwickelte er weitere Blasenkammertypen für Experimente in der Hochenergiephysik und führte auch selbst Experimente am Cosmotrom des Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York und dem Bevatron des Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Kalifornien durch. Er wurde 1960 "für die Erfindung der Blasenkammer" mit dem Nobelpreis für Physik ausgezeichnet. Glaser wandte sich 1962 dem Gebiet der Molekularbiologie zu, das ihn bereits seit seinem Studium am CalTech interessiert hatte. Nachdem durch die Erkenntnis, dass die DNA und RNA von Mikroorganismen genauso aufgebaut ist wie die höherentwickelter Lebewesen, die Grundlagen der modernen Biotechnologie gelegt waren, untersuchte Glaser mit seinen Studenten die Kontrollmechanismen der DNA-Synthese in Bakterien. Er konnte auch anhand von mutierten Eizellen des Chinesischen Hamsters eine erhöhte Sensitivität gegenüber ultraviolettem Licht nachweisen, wodurch diese Zellen sich in Krebszellen verwandeln konnten. Die sieben in diesen Prozess involvierten Gene finden sich auch beim Menschen, wobei die gleichen Defekte zu der Krebsform "Xeroderma pigmentosum" führen. Als Glaser um 1970 feststellte, dass die Molekularbiologie zwar ein sehr detailliertes Wissen bereitstellte, das aber kaum in der Medizin oder anderen Bereichen angewandt wurde, gründete er mit zwei Freunden das erste Biotechnologie-Unternehmen und begründete damit diesen Industriezweig, der große Auswirkungen auf Medizin und Landwirtschaft hat. Da durch diese Industrialisierung der Biotechnologie der experimentelle Aufwand für die biochemischen und molekularen Technologien sehr schnell zunahm, wandte er sich erneut einem anderen Gebiet zu - der Neurobiologie, speziell dem visuellen System des Menschen. Es handelt sich hier um einen der bestuntersuchten Bereiche des menschlichen Gehirns, dessen "Schaltplan" sehr gut verstanden wird. So können, ausgehend von Computermodellen des menschlichen Sehens, Vorhersagen über die visuellen Fähigkeiten des Menschen und von Affen getroffen werden, die mit psychophysikalischen und elektrophysikalischen Methoden überprüfbar sind. Diese Modelle führten bereits zu Beschreibungen der Wahrnehmung von Bewegung und Tiefe und fü.
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Contact seller5-star sellerSoft cover. Condition: Good. Foundational Paper/Nobel Prize 1960 Donald A. Glaser, "Bubble Chamber Tracks of Penetrating Cosmic-Ray Particles" in Physical Review 91 No. 3, August 1, 1953, pp. 762-763. This paper is offered in the full August issue for 1953, pp 505-773. The issue is extracted from a larger bound volume. The spine… is a little rough and the first page is detached. GOOD (4/10) copy of an historic paper. "Donald Glaser invented the bubble chamber in 1952, a groundbreaking device that made it possible to visualize and photograph the tracks of high-energy charged particles as they passed through a superheated liquid. These tracks appear as strings of tiny bubbles formed along the particles' paths, providing, in many cases, detailed, high-resolution visual evidence of subatomic interactions." "Our ability to study the smallest components of our world took a giant leap forward when C.T.R. Wilson invented the cloud chamber, where the trails of charged particles can be observed. Donald Glaser's invention of the bubble chamber in 1952 made it possible to study particles with higher energies. When charged particles rush forward through the chamber filled with a liquid at near-boiling point, they ionize atoms they pass by. When the pressure inside the chamber is then reduced, bubbles form around these charged atoms. The particles' tracks can then be photographed and analyzed." From: NobelPrize organization website entry on Glaser. "American physicist and neurobiologist Donald Arthur Glaser undertook a search for a better mechanism for tracking small charged particles, and settled on the idea of a superheated liquid. He found the published version of a 1924 study of superheated liquids and realized that the random beginning of boiling in the superheated ether described in the study was probably initiated by cosmic rays. Any disturbance in a superheated liquid causes local vaporization to occur, causing a bubble to form. As the particle moves through the liquid, it leaves a track of bubbles."--History of Physics, the Wenner Collection (David Wenner) This paper continues and expands his very short initial announcement of the bubble chamber in "Some Effects of Ionizing Radiation on the Formation of Bubbles in Liquids" in Physical Review 87 No. 4, p. 665, August 15, 1952. 714.3.
More imagesDonald A. Glaser (1926-2013) - Signed card + Photo - 90s
Donald A. Glaser (1926-2013) - American physicist, neurobiologist, and the winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Add to basketPas de couverture. Condition: Bon. Authentic card signed in the 90s. + Photo 17.5x17.5 cm (recent print). Size : 7.5x12.5 cm. Condition : see scans please. Certificate of Authenticity and lifetime guarantee. Signé par l'auteur.
Published by American Physical Society, 1952
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. pp. 547-684; original printed paper wrappers, noted physicist Christian Moller's copy, with his hand stamp to the front cover, spine slightly faded, else very good; includes contributions by R. Kubo, among others. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipm…ent 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.
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Add to basketQuer-kl.-8vo. 1 p. Namenszug auf Albumblatt.
More imagesPublished by American Physical Society, Lancaster, 1952
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Seller: Atticus Rare Books, West Branch, IA, U.S.A.Atticus Rare Books
Contact seller5-star seller1st Edition. BOUND FULL VOLUME FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST MODEL OF ELECTRON-HOLE RECOMBINATION IN A HIGHLY PURE SEMICONDUCTOR. Cited over 2500 since publication, this model is now known as the Shockley-Read-Hall (SRH) recombination and is of import to solar and semiconductor technology. "Any electron which exists in the conducti…on band is in a meta-stable state and will eventually stabilize to a lower energy position in the valence band. When this occurs, it must move into an empty valence band state. Therefore, when the electron stabilizes back down into the valence band, it also effectively removes a hole. This process is called recombination" (Honsberg & Bowden, Types of Recombination). The model Shockley and Read put forth in this paper is essentially recombination through defects; in other words, recombination does not happen in a pure material. The steps involved in SRH are two-fold: (1) "An electron (or hole) is trapped by an energy state in the forbidden region which is introduced through defects in the crystal lattice. These defects can either be unintentionally introduced or deliberately added to the material, for example in doping the material; and (2) If a hole (or an electron) moves up to the same energy state before the electron is thermally re-emitted into the conduction band, then it recombines. "The rate at which a carrier moves into the energy level in the forbidden gap depends on the distance of the introduced energy level from either of the band edges. Therefore, if an energy is introduced close to either band edge, recombination is less likely as the electron is likely to be re-emitted to the conduction band edge rather than recombine with a hole which moves into the same energy state from the valence band. For this reason, energy levels near mid-gap are very effective for recombination" (ibid). ALSO INCLUDED IN THIS ISSUE: PFIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF DONALD GLASER'S NOBEL PRIZE WINNING INVENTION OF THE BUBBLE CHAMBER USED IN SUB ATOMIC PARTICLE PHYSICS. Glaser was an American physicist and neurobiologist who, inspired by the bubbles in a glass of beer, invented a vessel that, when filled with a superheated transparent liquid like liquid hydrogen, is able to detect electrically charged particles moving through it. Glaser's bubble chamber made it possible for scientists "to observe the paths and lifetimes of particles" in sub atomic particle physics (Wikipedia). Bubble chambers are created by filling "a large cylinder with a liquid heated to just below its boiling point. As particles enter the chamber, a piston suddenly decreases its pressure, and the liquid enters into a superheated, metastable phase. Charged particles create an ionization track, around which the liquid vaporizes, forming microscopic bubbles. Bubble density around a track is proportional to a particle's energy loss. Bubbles grow in size as the chamber expands, until they are large enough to be seen or photographed" (Wikipedia). Glaser was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1960 for his invention. CONDITION & DETAILS: Lancaster: American Physical Society. Complete full volume. Ex-libris with no spine markings whatsoever. Pictorial bookplate of the Bridgeport Library on the front pastedown; stamp on title page and rear flyleaf. 4to (10.5 x 8 inches; 263 x 200mm). Tightly and solidly bound in brown buckram, gilt-lettered at the spine. Very slight wear.
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Seller: Markus Brandes Autographs GmbH, Kesswil, TG, SwitzerlandMarkus Brandes Autographs GmbH
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Add to basketSigned photograph, shows Donald Arthur Glaser in a chest-up portrait, 4 x 6 inch, signed in black felt tip "Donald A. Glaser", in very fine condition.
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Seller: Jeremy Norman's historyofscience, Novato, CA, U.S.A.Jeremy Norman's historyofscience
Contact seller2-star sellerIn The Physical Review Vol. 87, 2nd series (1952): 665. Whole issue. 268 x 201 mm. Original printed wrappers, spine faded, slight wear. VG+. Glaser received the 1960 Nobel Prize in physics for the invention of the bubble chamber.
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Seller: Atticus Rare Books, West Branch, IA, U.S.A.Atticus Rare Books
Contact seller5-star seller1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF TWO PAPERS: DONALD GLASER'S BRIEF 1952 ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS FIRST EXPERIMENT WITH HIS BUBBLE CHAMBER & HIS 1953 PAPER FULLY DESCRIBING HIS INVENTION AND SUMMARIZING ITS USE IN OBSERVING AND PHOTOGRAPHING THE TRACKS AND LIFETIMES OF PARTICLES. Glaser's invention was a major b…reakthrough in sub-atomic particle physics. His "investigation of interactions involving short-lived particles, [facilitated] the discoveries by Luis Alvarez and others at Lawrence- Berkeley National Laboratories, among others" (History of Physics: The Wenner Collection). He was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics for this invention. "American physicist and neurobiologist Donald Arthur Glaser undertook a search for a better mechanism for tracking small charged particles, and settled on the idea of a superheated liquid. He found the published version of a 1924 study of superheated liquids and realized that the random beginning of boiling in the superheated ether described in the study was probably initiated by cosmic rays. Any disturbance in a superheated liquid causes local vaporization to occur, causing a bubble to form. As the particle moves through the liquid, it leaves a track of bubbles" (ibid). As stated in the Nobel Prize presentation speech, "Glaser's idea was that an atomic particle passing through the liquid would be able to provoke boiling by means of the ions which the atomic particle produces along its path and which act as bubble-development centers. If a flash picture were subsequently taken of the superheated liquid immediately after an atomic particle passes through, one ought to be able to observe the particle's path which is followed by the small bubbles which would have been produced" (Nobel Prize Presentation). This was the basis of Glaser's idea and, working according to very systematic plans and experiments, he built a device - first one as small as his thumb and then a full-sized one -- consisting of a tank of pressurized liquid which, when superheated by reducing its pressure, caused charged particles to pass through the tank, stripping electrons from atoms in the liquid and causing the liquid to boil. While initially microscopic, as the chamber expanded the bubbles grew in size, and as Glaser has hoped, grew large enough to become a very effective way to detect, visualize, and photograph the paths and lifetimes of particles. CONDITION & DETAILS: Lancaster: American Physical Society. Two issues in original wraps. Complete. 4to (10.5 x 8 inches; 263 x 200mm). The 1952 issue is in near fine condition inside and out. The 1952 issue has been professionally rebacked at the spine and has slight toning at the edges of the wrap (very good +); the interior is near fine.
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Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. I…llustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 340 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 340 Language: English.
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