Robert Laue (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. box is torn and broken, but book and discs/cases are in pristine condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good; see scans and description. Chicago: Atomic Scientists of Chicago, 1948. The April, 1948 issue of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The famous and historic Doomsday Clock - shown on each cover since 1947, two years after the publication's inception - here shows the time to be eight minutes of midnight as of mid-1948. Quarto, illustrated staple-bound wraps, 32 pp. (pages 96 through 128 for the annual volume, pages then being numbered after the fashion of the time). Very Good; sunning at spine and edges (scan); modest amount of age-toning to the inexpensive paper of the contents; very light pencil signature of an early owner at top right, front cover, is not visible in scan. A scarce issue for the collector; see all scans. Established in 1945 by biophysicist Eugene Rabinowitch and physicist Hyman Goldsmith in response to a correctly-perceived demand for nuclear information at the time by the general public, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is without doubt the most historically significant non-technical publication on the subject of "'global security and public policy issues related to the dangers posed by nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, climate change,[2] and emerging technologies and diseases". Hence, over the years, BAS has become a geopolitical instrument, rather than a nuclear watchdog alone. Feature articles in this vintage 1948 issue: Future Atomic Energy; Wartime German Scientist Activities; Harwell Establishment; FAS Committee Committee on Clearance; Fission as Power Source; House of Lords Debates. More. See scan of contents. Contributors include H.H. Goldsmith & Eugene Rabinowitch (Editors); E.U. Condon; Robert F. Bacher; Max von Laue; Samuel A. Goudsmit; H.W.B. Skinner; John R. Menke; Edward A. Shils; Peter Kihss. Very, very scarce as the original monthly softcover issue. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. LPR57.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 137 pp, 1 leaf, 9 pp [von Laue], 14 pp [Richards], 9 pp [Barkla], 12 pp [Willstätter], 14 pp [Bárány]; plates. Original wrappers. Wrappers are slightly foxed and soiled. Unopened. Very Good. First Edition. Although the title includes the year 1918, the last year represented in this volume is 1917. Contains the five Nobel Lectures by Max von Laue, Theodore Richards, Charles Barkla, Richard Willstätter, and Robert Bárány. Max von Laue was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1914 "for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals". Theodore William Richards was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1914 "in recognition of his accurate determinations of the atomic weight of a large number of chemical elements". Charles Glover Barkla was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1917 "for his discovery of the characteristic Röntgen radiation of the elements". Richard Martin Willstätter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1915 "for his researches on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll". Robert Bárány was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1914 "for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus". The Nobel lectures by von Laue, Willstätter, and Bárány are in German. The Nobel lectures by Richards and Barkla are in English. Sir William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915 "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays". Romain Rolland was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings". Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1916 "in recognition of his significance as the leading representative of a new era in our literature". Karl Adolph Gjellerup shared the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917 "for his varied and rich poetry, which is inspired by lofty ideals". Henrik Pontoppidan shared the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917 "for his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark".

4°, hardcover. 300 pp, 321 col.ill. New book. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 0.

Klappbroschure, gr-8°, 457 S., durchgehend illustriert; -Rücken leicht geblichen, sehr gutes Exemplar. isbn 3938821078.