Oppenheimer Serber (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. OPPENHEIMER, J.R. with F. Kalckar and R. Serber. "Note on Nuclear Photoeffect at High Energies" AND (the same) "Note on Resonances in transmutations of Light Nuclei", both in Physical Review, August 15, 1937, volume 52/4, pp 279-282 and 282-285. Original wrappers. Very good copy. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Oppenheimer, J.R.; Serber, Robert (1938). "On the Stability of Stellar Neutron Cores" in Physical Review, American Physical Society, 1 October 1938, vol 54 (7), pp 485-544, with the Oppenheimer/Serber on pg 540 in the complete weekly issue. Nice, bright copy, rebound in cloth with a paper cover label. The binding is fine and NEW; the text is very fresh, though it has an old horizontal fold that goes through the issue. [++] This paper is an early key contribution to understanding the extreme conditions with-in neutron stars, and was an important development for Oppenheimer's gravitational contraction work with H. Snyder in the next year ("On Massive Neutron Cores" and also while we're at it Oppenheimer's big paper with Volkoff "On Massive Neutron Cores") on gravitational contraction, which investigated the collapse of stars into what are now known as black holes. Oppenheimer didn't like this busi-ness too much though it has been widely acknowledged by many as some of his most important work (including J.A. Wheeler, who coined the term in 1967). See: Bernstein, Jeremy (2007). "The Reluctant Father of Black Holes," Scientific American,1988.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Oppenheimer, J.R.; Serber, Robert (1938). "On the Stability of Stellar Neutron Cores". Physical Review, American Physical Society, 1 October 1938, 54 (7): 540 in the complete weekly issue. Original wrappers. FINE copy. This paper is an early key contribution to understanding the extreme conditions with-in neutron stars, and was an important development for Oppenheimer's gravitational contraction work with H. Snyder in the next year ("On Massive Neutron Cores" and also while we're at it Oppenheimer's big paper with Volkoff "On Massive Neutron Cores") on gravitational contraction, which investigated the collapse of stars into what are now known as black holes. Oppenheimer didn't like this busi-ness too much though it has been widely acknowledged by many as some of his most important work (including J.A. Wheeler, who coined the term in 1967). See: Bernstein, Jeremy (2007). "The Reluctant Father of Black Holes," Scientific American,1988.…

First edition, the journal issue in the original wrappers. This early and significant particle physics paper was part of the attempt to explain the make-up of cosmic rays and align their behaviour with the contemporary model of quantum electrodynamics. This copy from the library of Manhattan project physicist Robert Brode, head of the team that designed the bomb fuses at Los Alamos, with his pencilled ownership signature on the upper cover. During the 1930s the theoretical work of Japanese physicist Hideki Ykawa, and observational evidence of cosmic rays gathered by Seth Neddermeyer and Carl David Anderson, made it clear that there was at least one previously unknown particle bigger than an electron but smaller than a proton. Initially termed mesotrons, and then mesons, it was eventually determined that they were in fact two different particles, the muon and the pion. 'Playing a leading role in both the creation and the clearing up of these confusions, and thus being there at the birth of what has grown into the (for most people) utterly bewildering new discipline of particle physics, were Oppenheimer and his students' (Monk, Inside the Center, p. 227). The present paper 'analysed the "soft component" of cosmic rays as being made up of electrons and gamma rays that were released in mesotron "showers"' (Monk, p. 288). First edition, complete number; illustrations within the text; original green wrappers printed in black, pencilled ownership signature of Robert Brode to the upper cover, toned along the spine and edges and lightly rubbed, an excellent copy. Provenance: Robert Brode (signature).…

Condition: VG. Lancaster. 1937 first edition. American Physical Society. Single complete issue for June 15, 1937. volume 51 number 12, second series. Original printed green 4to wraps. Issue paginated pp. xi, 1033-1138. Oppenheimer and Serber letter on p. 1113. This letter was "The first response to the mesotron that mentioned the U-quantum hypothesis, other than Yukawa's own letter "(Yukawa's letter was published in a Japanese journal) ( See p. 389 Brown and Pais - "20th C Physics"). This issue also contains tmany other articles on physics. VG light cover wear; no ownership marks; text clean.…