Text Book Physics Fourth Edition by Watson (1 results)
Published by Longmans, Green, and Co, New York, 1903
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. No jacket. Fourth Edition, First Impression. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1903. Very Good condition. A clean, square and reasonably tight copy of the scarce 1903 first printing of the 4th revised and enlarged edition. Corners are NOT bumped. Pages are clean. NO foxing. NO underlin…ing. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Bound in the original blue cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. This copy is from the personal library of, and bears the small ink stamp of Robert B. Sosman. A geophysicist and physical chemist, Robert Browning Sosman authored THE PHASES OF SILICA (1965, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press). 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.". Fourth Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket. Illus. by Reeks, Miss M. xxii, 951pp + 40 pages of ads. Reeks, Miss M. (illustrator).