Verlag: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1947
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Text is unmarked, though the pages are a bit yellowed and the page edges are age toned. The top edge of the pages is foxed. Previous owner's signature in pen on the first free end page. Binding is sturdy. Dust jacket shows wear around the edges, with small chips missing from the corners and from the head and base of the spine. The dust jacket is also age toned around the edges and all along the spine.
Verlag: Oxford At The Clarendon Press, 1947
Anbieter: G. & J. CHESTERS, TAMWORTH, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 124 pages, frontispiece and 50 photos and 16 figures in the text, a very good hardback, with a small defect in one margin now repaired.
Verlag: Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1947
Anbieter: Riveting Books, Southsea, HAMPS, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good +. 1st. Dust Jacket: No. External/Dust Jacket Condition: Scarce. The pictorial boards have minor wear to the corners and edges, otherwise excellent, clean and bright. Internal Condition: There is an errata slip present, furthermore the errata corrections have been made in blue pen on the appropriate pages. There is some surface wear on the front endpaper and there are 'Harwell Library' stamp marks on the title page. The endpapers are slightly grubby. Author/Editor: Powell, C F & Occhialini, G P S. Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press. Year: 1947. Edition: 1st. Binding: Hardcover. Illustrated: Yes, B&W. Language: English. Page Count: 124. Keywords: science, physics. The book for sale is the one in the photo. All dust jackets are put in a protective sleeve prior to shipping.
Verlag: At the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1947
Anbieter: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Original blue cloth. From the library of Chemistry professor Herbert M. Clark, who worked on the Manhattan Project, with his signature in ink. Near Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket with a few edge tears.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1948
Anbieter: Antiq. F.-D. Söhn - Medicusbooks.Com, Marburg, Deutschland
Proc. Physic. Soc., 61. - Great Britain 1948, 4°, pp.173-183, 7 Abbildungen, orig. Broschur.
Verlag: Macmillan and Co., Ltd. and The MacMillan Company, London and New York, 1947
Anbieter: Kuenzig Books ( ABAA / ILAB ), Topsfield, MA, USA
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Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. 890 pages plus indexes and front matter of individual issues, and volume index (xlvi pp) in rear. 8vo. 7 1/2 x 10 inches. Blue buckram binding. Offered is the entire Volume 159 of Nature, A Weekly Journal of Science, Jan. 4, 1947 to Jun 28, 1947. Ex-corporate library (Caterpillar Tractor Co Research Library), with preliminary pages and advertising (but not original issue wrappers) bound in for each issue. Closely trimmed when rebound, not affecting text. Portions of two issues with some dampstaining lower right. Occasional library stamps, pocket removed from front pastedown. Several places where paper was taped to individual pages, with minor paper loss when removed. The two important papers referenced below are in fine condition. Cloth. Contains two key articles for which C. F. Powell was awarded the Nobel prize in physics in 1950 "for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method." The first article, "Nuclear Disintegrations Produced by Slow Charged Particles of Slow Mass" is confirmation of the negative pi meson ( ): "In studying photographic plates exposed to the cosmic rays, we have found a number of multiple disintegrations each of which appears to have been produced by the entry of a slow charged particle into a nucleus."(introduction) The second article, "Processes Involving Charged Mesons" indicates the first existing of the negative pi meson ( )'s decay into -: "In recent investiations with the photographic method, it has been shown that slow charged particles of small pass, present as a component of the cosmic radiation at high altitudes, can enter nuclei and produce disintegrations with the emission of heavy particles. It is convenient to apply the term "Meson" to any particle witha mass intermediate between that of a proton and an electron. In continuing our experiments we have found evidence of mesons which, at the end of their range, produce secondary mesons. We have also observed transmutations in which slow mesons are ejected from disintegrating nuclei." (from the introduction). It is important to note that these experiments and discoveries predated linear accelerators, so the technology to create, and detect collisions was far more difficult - often involving balloons high in the atmosphere, and detection sites deep underground looking for naturally occuring events rather than man-made ones. Ezhela et. al. : Occhialini 1947 (Nobel Prize, p. 93) and Lattes 1947 (Nobel Prize, p. 96). There is a third paper, found in Nature volume 160, p. 453 which is also related.