Levison Wallace Goold (3 results)

Stapled Book. Condition: Very Good. GEO 034636 Scarce original paperback 1916 Vol I No 6. edition. It has three articles and then an index to Vol.I.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+ condition. First Edition. New York: New York Mineralogy Club, 1909. Very Good+ condition. Softcover. 6.25" wide by 9.25" tall. Bound in the original light green, printed wrappers. Cover lightly soiled. Text pages are NEAR FINE. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with 3 photographic plates, each with a tissue-guard printed with descriptive text. Bulletin of the New York Mineralogy Club, Vol. 1, No. 2. This copy is from the library of scientist and author Robert B. Sosman, with his tiny ink stamp. A physical chemist, Robert Browning Sosman received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1907, at the age of 26. By 1908 he had joined the Geo-Physical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution. Dr. Sosman worked at the Geo-Physical Laboratory for 20 years, serving 8 years as Assistant Director. During World War I, his contributions there were instrumental in establishing America's capacity for manufacturing optical glass. In 1928 he left to join the United States Steel Corporation as Assistant Director of Research. Following his retirement from U.S. Steel in 1947, he became visiting professor of Ceramics at Rutgers University. Dr. Sosman was a past president of the American Ceramic Society. In his honor, the Society established The Robert B. Sosman Award, "the highest recognition of scientific accomplishment given by the Basic Science Division. in recognition of outstanding achievement in basic science of an area that results in a significant impact to the field of ceramics.". First Edition. Softcover pamphlet. Very Good+ condition. pp. 11-24. + plates.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. paginé 401-406. New York Academy of Sciences, 1898, in-8, paginé 401-406, Broché, couverture imprimée, Deux courts articles extraits des Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; t. XI, n° 17 et 18, septembre 1898, de Wallace Goold Levison (1846-1924). Exemplaire comportant, en première de couverture, un envoi de l'auteur au célèbre découvreur de la radioactivité et prix Nobel de 1903 Henri Becquerel dont le père, Edmond, fut l'inventeur du phosphoroscope. Wallace Goold Levison (1846-1924), scientifique et inventeur, fut membre du Brooklyn Institute ; il y fonda le département de minéralogie et d'astronomie.