Executive Editor Harold Way (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Pergamon Press, New York, 1962. 473 pages. 10 x 7", hardcover, no dj. No dj, cover bit spotted, text clean, tight, Very Good/None.

Condition: Very Good EX-LIBRARY. First Editions. Oxford, London, New York, Paris:: Pergamon Press, 1960-62., 1960. A solid set, complete in 12 volumes. Clean and tight. Inner hinges are perfect. WITHDRAWN stamps on the endpapers, and a few other library markings. NO pockets. Text pages are unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Uniformly bound in the publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gold on the spines. Irving Langmuir (1881-1957) won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his discoveries and investigations in surface chemistry." According to the D.S.B. (vol. VIII, p. 25): "Langmuir received 63 patents and published over 200 papers and reports between 1906 and 1956. Virtually all his papers appear in the 12-vol. memorial edition of THE COLLECTED WORKS OF IRVING LANGMUIR. Scattered throughout are memorial essays by scientists who knew him including a book-length biography by Albert Rosenfeld, THE QUINTESSENCE OF IRVING LANGMUIR in Vol. XII, pt. 1. In addition to a complete list of Langmuir's own papers, it contains an extensive bibliography of writings about him." Published with the editorial assistance of the General Electric Company by Pergamon Press. The 12 volumes are: 1. Low-Pressure Phenomena; 2. Heat Transfer -- Incandescent Tungsten; 3. Thermionic Phenomena; 4. Electrical Discharge; 5. Plasma and Oscillations.; 6. Structure of Matter; 7. Protein Structures; 8. Properties of Matter; 9. Surface Phenomena; 10. Atmospheric Phenomena; 11. Cloud Nucleation; 12. Langmuir, the Man and the Scientist, including a Biography by Albert Rosenfeld. . First Editions. Oversize Hardcover (heavy). Very Good EX-LIBRARY./No dust jackets. 8vo. (iv), 108pp.