Quantum Physics Solids by Shockley (3 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. The Bell System Technical Journal; New York, 1939. Trade paperback. Mathematical Physics. Monograph B-1184. A Very Good, binding intact though front and rear cover detached but present, some handling/scuff marks to covers, bit of cover edge/corner wear, hole punched, some soiling to front cover, age toning to covers and text block, crease mid rear cover at spine, a nice, overall clean and unmarked copy in wraps. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9]., 79pp. We pack securely and ship daily w/delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.

First separate edition. 79 pp; 35 figs. Original wrappers. Three holes punched in blank vertical margin (probably as issued), ink stamp (of E. R. Piore) on front wrapper. Else Very Good. Bell Telephone System Technical Publications, Mathematical Physics, Monograph B-1184. "Quantum mechanical concepts for isolated atoms are applied to inter-acting atoms, leading to methods of calculating energies and forces binding atoms together in crystals" (from the front wrapper). Shockley: Nobel Prize, Physics (shared with John Bardeen and William Brattain), 1956, "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect." Piore = President's Science Advisory Committee and Naval Research Advisory Committee, ca. 1965, and Vice-President of IBM, ca. mid 1960s.

New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1939. 8vo. Original full blue cloth. The entire volume XVIII, 1939 of The Bell System Technical Journal. Library stamp to free front end-paper. Binding tight and clean. Also internally very nice and clean. Pp. 645-724. [Entire volume: (8), 748 pp.]. First edition of the first paper of a series of three on the quantum physics of solids by the Nobel Prize winner in Physics William Shockley."It is proposed to make this paper the first of a series of three dealing with the quantum physics of solids" (From the introduction to the present article). William Shockley was co-Inventor of the Transistor which awarded him the Nobel Prize in 1956. His attempts to commercialize the transistor in the 1950s and 1960s led to California's "Silicon Valley" becoming a hub of electronics innovation.