Lancaster, PA., and New York: American Physical Society, 1948; 1949; 1951. First edition, journal issues, documenting the invention of the transistor, “which has been called ‘the most important invention of the 20th Century.’ Developed from semiconductor material, the transistor was the first device that could both amplify an electrical signal..... More
Item #4566

[London: Harrison and Sons], 1910. Presentation offprint, inscribed in Bohr’s hand to the chemist Einar Biilmann, of the ‘Second Royal Society Paper’ – what Bohr “learned by working in this field may have been a help to him when, more than a quarter of a century later, he showed that..... More
Item #3505

Lancaster, PA & Corning, NY: American Physical Society, [1923]. First edition, journal issue in original printed wrappers, of the ‘Compton effect,’ which demonstrated the existence of quanta of electromagnetic radiation, later called photons. “This discovery ‘created a sensation among the physicists of the time.’ There were the inevitable controversies surrounding..... More
Item #3588

Braunschweig: Vieweg & Sohn, 1914. First edition, extremely rare author’s presentation offprint (with ‘Überreicht vom Verfasser’ (Presented by the Author) printed on front wrapper), and the copy of Einstein’s close friend and colleague Paul Ehrenfest, of this crucial transitional paper in which Einstein uses the light quantum hypothesis to give..... More
Item #4295

Leipzig: Barth, 1906. First edition, rare author’s presentation offprint with “Überricht von dem Verfasser” printed on the front wrapper, of the expanded version of Einstein’s doctoral thesis, ranked by his biographer Abraham Pais as being on the same level as his 1905 papers on relativity, the light quanta and Brownian..... More
Item #5071

Berlin: Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1924; 1925; 1925. First editions, the rare author’s presentation offprint issues with ‘Ūberreicht vom Verfasser’ printed on front wrappers, of Einstein’s three papers on Bose-Einstein statistics, Einstein’s “last major innovative contribution to physics” (Pais, p. 343), containing, among other things, Einstein’s derivation of the Bose-Einstein..... More
Item #5065

Leipzig: Barth, 1907. First edition, rare author’s presentation offprint with “Überreicht vom Verfasser” printed on front wrapper, of “Einstein’s third stage in his investigation of Brownian motion. In the first stage (1905) he obtained the explanation of the observed zigzag motion of suspended particles. In the second stage (1906) he..... More
Item #5069

Leipzig: Barth, 1906. First edition, rare author’s presentation offprint with “Überreicht vom Verfasser” printed on front wrapper, of this brilliant follow-up to Einstein’s landmark 1905 paper on the photoelectric effect. In the 1905 paper, ‘On a heuristic point of view concerning the production and transformation of light,’ Einstein had explained..... More
Item #5070

Lancaster, PA & New York, NY: American Physical Society, 1948. First edition, journal issue in original printed wrappers, and a virtually mint copy, of Feynman’s path-integral formulation of quantum mechanics, a “new formalism for quantum theory (presented in Feynman’s thesis) which … turned out to be the most powerful and..... More
Item #5061

Vancouver: [np], 1975. A detailed draft for a talk given to the Canadian Association of Physics Students, in Vancouver, on the contemporary state of subatomic particle physics, its current difficulties and possible future developments. Although a ‘popular’ talk, it is pitched at a high level, appropriate to postgraduate students in physics..... More
Item #4859

Pasadena, CA: California Institute of Technology, 1960. First edition, exceptionally rare offprint, signed by Feynman, of this visionary lecture which represents the birth of nanotechnology, the field of applied science involving manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale: ‘What I want to talk about is the problem of manipulating..... More
Item #5184

[Leyden]: in bibliopolio Commeliniano sumptibus viduae Joannis Comelini, 1620. First edition, extremely rare, of one of the earliest modern works on atomism. “Gorlaeus is counted among the founders of modern atomism, which he proposed as an alternative to Aristotelian matter theory. Because of his notion of atomic compounds, he is..... More
Item #4573

Berlin: Walter de Gruyter und Co., 1939 [1942, 1944]. First edition, the true offprint issues, i.e., in orange wrappers, of the three fundamental papers on nuclear fission which eventually lead to the creation of the atom bomb. “…experiments conducted in 1938 at Berlin by Hahn and Strassman [sic] were reported..... More
Item #5050