DAVISSON, Clinton. & L. H. Germer Reflection of Electrons by a Crystal of Nickel [and] Reflection and Refraction of Electrons by a Crystal of Nickel.
Washington: Mack Printing Company, 1928. First edition.

Their papers in which they experimentally confirmed de Broglie’s theory of the wave-particle duality of light. Davisson was awarded the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics for this work.This volume also includes the paper by Linus Pauling: "The Shared-Electron Chemical Bond" - his first paper describing the quantum mechanical nature of the chemical bond, the topic for which he won his first Nobel Prize.

In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 14, pp. 317-22 and pp. 619-27. The complete volume offered (X, 980 pp.) in contemporary full cloth. 4to. Ex-library book plate and blind stamp to title page (Johns Hopkins University).