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Adler, K.. Study of Nuclear Structure by Electromagnetic Excitations with Accelerated Ions. Lancaster Pa: American Physical Society, 1956. 1st edition. Reviews of Modern Physics 28/4 4to. Original printed wrappers. Good or better condition. Written with A. Bohr, T. Huus, B. Mottelson and A. Winther. Huge contribution occupying pp 432-542 (of 363-542 of the issue). ALSO: Foundations of Thermodynamics, by P. T. Landsberg pp. 363-392; Linear-System Integral Transform Relations, J. Ross Macdonald and Malcolm K. Brachman, pp. 393-422; Experimental Single-Particle Level Spacings in the Region of the 1f7 / 2 Shell, Rudi H. Nussbaum pp. 423-431; Study of Nuclear Structure by Electromagnetic Excitation with Accelerated Ions, K. Alder, A. Bohr, T. Huus, B. Mottelson, and A. Winther pp. 432-542. (Book ID 22565) $95.00

Dirac, P.A.M.. Quantum Theory of Localizable Dynamic Systems. Lancster: AMerican Physical Society, 1948. 1st edition. Physical review, 73/9, 1 May 1948 Original printed wrappers. Very fine condition. This is one of only 8 articles published by Dirac in an APS-sponsored publication (see bottom). OTHER PAPERS in this issue include: Excitation Function for Proton-Neutron Reaction in Lithium Li7(p,n) J. E. Hill and W. E. Shoupp pp. 931-933 Note on Second Born Approximation and Proton-Neutron and Proton-Proton Scattering Ta-You Wu Nuclear Properties of 93237 Arthur C. Wahl and Glenn T. Seaborg pp. 940-941 Shapes of Nuclear Induction Signals Boris A. Jacobsohn and Roald K. Wangsness pp. 942-946 A Photographic Study of the Neutron Spectra from Al(αn) and Si(dn) R. A. Peck pp. 947-955 Search for a Resonance Absorption of Neutrons in Graphite S. Bernstein pp. 956-962 Slow Neutron Velocity Spectrometer Studies of Cu, Ni, Bi, Fe, Sn, and Calcite W. W. Havens, L. J. Rainwater, C. S. Wu, and J. R. Dunning pp. 963-972 Neutron-Proton and Proton-Proton Scattering at High Energies Julius Ashkin and Ta-You Wu pp. 973-985 Elastic and Inelastic Scattering of 100- to 200-Mev Protons or Neutrons by Deuterons Ta-YOU Wu and Julius Ashkin pp. 986-1001 On the Behavior of Cross Sections Near Thresholds Eugene P. Wigner pp. 1002-1009 The Production of Nucleons by the Cosmic Radiation. II. S. A. Korff and A. Cobas pp. 1010-1014 Gamma-Rays from Alpha-Particle Reactions David E. Alburger pp. 1014-1019 A Note on Saturation in Microwave Spectroscopy Robert Karplus and Julian Schwinger pp. 1020-1026 Frequency Modulation in Microwave Spectroscopy Robert Karplus pp. 1027-1034 Radioactive Cerium and Praseodymium M. L. Pool and N. L. Krisberg pp. 1035-1041 Trajectories of Charged Meson Test Particles in the Similarity Geometry Banesh Hoffmann pp. 1042-1046 The Breakdown of Gases in High Frequency Electrical Fields Donald H. Hale pp. 1046-1052 Saturation Effect in Microwave Absorption of Ammonia Robert L. Carter and William V. Smith pp. 1053-1058 Secondary Electron Emission from Targets of Barium-Strontium Oxide J. B. Johnson pp. 1058-1073 Mechanical Properties of Long Chain Molecule Liquids at Ultrasonic Frequencies W. P. Mason, W. O. Baker, H. J. Mcskimin, and J. H. Heiss pp. 1074-1091 Quantum Theory of Localizable Dynamical Systems P. A. Dirac pp. 1092-1103 Crystal Radii of the Heavy Elements W. H. Zachariasen pp. 1104-1105 The Question of Non-Singular Solutions in the Generalized Theory of Gravitation A. Papapetrou pp. 1105-1108 On the Hyperfine Structure of Deuterium Aage Bohr pp. 1109-1111 Abstract from AIP's great PROLA website: "A dynamical system is called localizable if its wave functions can be expressed in terms of variables, each referring to physical conditions at only one point in space-time. These variables may be at points on any three-dimensional space-like surface in space-time. A general investigation is made of how the wave function varies when the surface is varied in any way. The variation of the wave function is given by equations of the SchrÃ¶dinger type involving certain operators Hn(u) which play the role of Hamiltonians. The commutation relations for these operators are obtained (Eqs. (50), (51)). The theory works entirely with relativistic concepts and it provides the general pattern which any relativistic quantum theory must conform to, provided the dynamical system is localizable ." ++++The other papers by Dirac include the following: Quantum Electrodynamics without Dead Wood P. A. Dirac Phys. Rev. 139, B684 (1965) 2. The Conditions for a Quantum Field Theory to be Relativistic P. A. Dirac Rev. Mod. Phys. 34, 592 (1962) Cited 27 times 3. Fixation of Coordinates in the Hamiltonian Theory of Gravitation P. A. Dirac Phys. Rev. 114, 924 (1959) 4. Energy of the Gravitational Field P. A. Dirac Phys. Rev. Lett. 2, 368 (1959) 5. Free to Read Forms of Relativistic Dynamics P. A. Dirac Rev. Mod. Phys. 21, 392 (1949) 6. The Theory of Magnetic Poles P. A. Dirac 7. Quantum Theory of Localizable Dynamical Systems P. A. Dirac Phys. Rev. 73, 1092 (1948) Cited 16 times 8. On the Analogy Between Classical and Quantum Mechanics P. A. Dirac No abstract available. Rev. Mod. Phys. 17, 195 (1945) (Book ID 22887) $450.00

Fermi, Enrico. Memoriam Symposium Held in Honor of Enrico Fermi at the Washington Meeting of the American Physical Society. Lancaster PA: American Physical Society, 1955. 1st edition. Reviews of Modern Physics 27/3. July 1955 4to. Original printed wrappers. Good or better condition. Occupies pp 249-276 (249-336 the issue). Includes contributions by Fred Seitz, Konopinski, Segre, and Zinn. In full: Fermi Statistics and Its Applications, Frederick Seitz pp. 249-257; Fermi's Theory of Beta-Decay, by E. J. Konopinski pp. 254-257; Fermi and Neutron Physics by Emilio Segr�, pp. 257-263; Fermi and Atomic Energy, Walter H. Zinn, pp. 263-268; Meson Experiments with Enrico Fermi, byHerbert L. Anderson,pp. 269-272; From Professor Fermi's Notebooks, H. L. Anderson and Samuel K. Allison pp. 273-275; Magnetic Hyperfine Structure Due to Rotation in 1Σ Molecules, Robert L. White, pp. 276-288; Foundations of Statistical Mechanics, D. Ter Haar, pp. 289-338. (Book ID 22562) $195.00

Feynman, Richard P.. Relativistic Cut-Off for Classical Electrodynamics. Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1948. The Physical Reviewvol 74, number 8, October 15, 1948 Original printed wrappers. Fine condition. THis extends (according to Mehra) the thinking that Feynman did in the early 1940's on action-at-a-distance and leads to his second paper on the subject a few weeks later ("Relativistic Cut-Off for Quantum Electrodynamics"). The following abstract is from the APS beautiful PROLA wesbite (prola.aps.org): Received 8 June 1948 Ordinarily it is assumed that interaction between charges occurs along light cones, that is, only where the four-dimensional interval s2=t2-r2 is exactly zero. We discuss the modifications produced if, as in the theory of F. Bopp, substantial interaction is assumed to occur over a narrow range of s2 around zero. This has no practical effect on the interaction of charges which are distant from one another by several electron radii. The action of a charge on itself is finite and behaves as electromagnetic mass for accelerations which are not excessive. There also results a classical representation of the phenomena of pair production in sufficiently strong fields. (Book ID 23230) $2,250.00

Hubble & Humason, A Relation Between Distance and Radial Velocity Among Extra-Galactic Nebulae WITH The Velocity-Distance Relation..... Mount WIlson Observatory, 1929. Contributions from the Mount WIlson Observatory No. 427 Wrappers. Very good condition. This offering includes the following: (1) Edwin Hubble. "A Relation Between Distance and Radial Velocity Among Extra-Galactic Nebulae". Original offprint, Carnegie Institution of Washington Mount Wilson Observatory; Communications to the National Academy of Sciences No. 105; reprinted from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 1929. 6pp. Fine copy. HUBBLE'S LAW. Contrary to common belief it is a misconception that this paper is in the first-first format. The National Academy of Sciences offprint is extremely rare--the Mount Wilson offprint, while rare in itself, is the second time that this paper is published. This is a somewhat convoluted published history--the Mount Wilson version will have "Reprinted from the National Academy of Sciences...." printed at the bottom of the front wrapper, with a Mount Wilson header at the top of the wrapper as well. It seems as though this might be the NAS issue, but it is not. Our copy lacks the outer wrappers. I'm not sure that this copy ever had one--there is no evidence of its removal, and by the way in which there are three sets of two-hole punctures along the left side (as is present in the other paper) this may have been issued without the wrapper and bound together with other Mount Wilson publications. There are three blank pages at the end--the first is simply the last page with a blank reverse, followed by a blank sheet. There is no doubt in my mind that this is an offprint. ///(Paper 2): Edwin Hubble & Milton Humason. "The Velocity-Distance Relation for Isolated Extra-Galactic Nebulae." Communications to the National Academy of Sciences No 116, reprinted from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 1934. 5pp. Original offprint from Mount Wilson. Without the outer wrappers, as with paper 1, above. The two papers above are rare and form a significant cosmological duo. Alan Sandage writes of Hubble: "Hubble's name is attached to many things of everyday astronomical life. There is Hubble's zone of avoidance, the Hubble galaxy type, the Hubble sequence, the Hubble luminosity law for reflection nebulae, the Hubble luminosity profile for E galaxies, the Hubble constant, the Hubble time, the Hubble diagram, the Hubble redshift-distance relation, the Hubble radius for the universe, and now the Hubble Space Telescope. It seems appropriate in this centennial year to celebrate the memory of a scientist whom some have called the greatest astronomer (in changing paradigms) since the times of Galileo, Kepler and Newton." And "(d). The linear velocity-distance relation was set out in a discovery paper in 1929, followed by a series of papers with Humason between 1931 and 1936 that verified and extended the relation to large (i.e. 60,000 km s[-1] redshifts. This discovery lead to the notion of the expanding universe which is the centre-piece (being the necessary condition) for the cosmological models of the present day." And As with Hubble's Cepheid paper 5 years before, and his space distribution paper to come 5 years in the future, Hubble's (1929b) discovery paper of the expansion was written so convincingly that it was believed almost immediately. Despite its astonishing content and its few data points, Hubble must have been quite certain of the result. In the paper immediately preceding Hubble's, Humason (1929) reported the very large (for the time) redshift for NGC7619 of 3779 km s[-1], far larger than any redshift known before. From this result Hubble must have been certain that a significant phenomenon was at hand. All effort was then made at Mount Wilson to confirm and to extend the astounding possibility that the universe expands. By 1930 Humason (1931) had obtained redshifts of galaxies in clusters whose "velocities" were as high as 20,000 km s[-1]. In perhaps the most important paper on the series, Hubble and Humason (1931) showed beyond doubt (a) the existence of the effect, (b) that it was linear with distance, and (c) that the brightest members of clusters are predominantly E galaxies (a major discovery related to galaxy and cluster formation). The work was extended to field galaxies soon thereafter (Hubble and Humason 1934), showing the generality of the phenomenon. By 1936 the work had been completed as far as it was to be done with the Mount wilson reflector, reaching redshifts of 40,000 km s[-1] for the Ursa Major No. 2 cluster (Humason 1936, Hubble 1936). Humason began the work again in 1949, using the Palomar 200-inch reflector, reaching 60,000 km s[-1] (Humason, Mayall and Sandage 1956) for the Hydra cluster, but was stopped from going further by the techniques of the time in the presence of the night sky air glow. Hubble (1953) symmarized the work finally in his Darwin Lecture." See http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/diamond_jubilee/1996/sandage_hubble.html (Book ID 23009) $1,500.00

Lee and Wang, "Question of Parity Conservation in Weak Interactions". American Physical Society, 1956. Physical Review 104 (1) October 1, 1956 Original printed wrappers. Fine condition. We offer the entire weekly issue in its (SCARCE) original wrappers. T. D. Lee Columbia University, New York, New York & C. N. Yang Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York: "Question of Parity Conservation in Weak Interactions". Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee were awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for their work "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles". The work of Yang and Lee came to destroy the "law of conservation of parity," which had been assumed to be a fundamental law of nature; it predicted that beta particles, which are emitted by a radioactive nucleus, would fly off in any direction, regardless of the spin of the nucleus. In 1957 ("Experimental Test of Parity Conservation in Beta Decay" pr, 4 Feb 1957), using atoms of cobalt-60, W.S. Wu (et alia) showed that beta particles were more likely to be emitted in a particular direction that depended on the spin of the cobalt nuclei. Broken parity (symmetry) essentially means that something virtual (shadowy, but real in a special sense and widely used in physics; it has real physical consequences, since it creates all the forces of nature) has become observable (real in the ordinary everyday sense that it can be detected, measured, observed, and used. "Until 1956 the overwhelming majority of physicist believed that parity conservation is never violated in nature. Any new theory without evidence that went against this ingrained belief would almost certainly be dismissed. The belief in parity conservation was too strong an accepted paradigm to be challenged. Then in 1956 two Chinese physicists Yang and Lee first pointed out the exception and theoretically predicted non-conservation of parity. Initially there was predictable skepticism and it took further convincing work and subsequent experimental verification by a Chinese woman Wu and her colleagues and in 1957 the physicist community abandoned a long held belief in conservation of parity. Yang and Lee were not only vindicated, they received the Nobel Prize in Physics for this intellectual feat." (Book ID 23207) $1,450.00

Murray, Henry A.. Worksheets on Morale. Seminar in Psychological Problems of Morale.. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University, 1942 (?). 1st edition. 150 leaves 4to. Original printed wrappers. Very good condition. OSS Library via the Library of Congress This work by Gordon Allport and Henry A. Murray contains several sections on what has been recently hailed as the earliest psychological profile of Adolf Hitler. Evidently there were only 30 copies of this report made; it is exceptionally rare. It comes to use via the Library of Congress (Pamphlet Collection) and previously from the library of the OSS (the precursor to the CIA). Harvard University, Department of Psychology. 152 leaves, 15 sections, ca. 90,000 words. (Harvard and Illinois State University). Gordon W. Allport and Henry A. Murray. The sections include: (1) Aim of Seminar, 2 lvs; (2) Selected Bibliography, 1941, 3 lvs; (3) Notes on the Definition of Morale, 3+3lvs; (4) Determinants of Good and Bad Morale, 18 lvs; (5) Historical Trends of National Socialist Ideology, 14 lvs; (6) Hitler the Man, Notes for a Case Study, 22 lvs; (7) Education in Nazi Germany, 8 lvs; (9) Strategy and Tactics for anti-nazi propaganda, 10 lvs; (10) Democratic vs. Totalitarian Morale in Groups, 5 lvs; (11) Standards o fDEmocratic Morale-Building in the U.S., 6 lvs; (12) Civilian Morale Building Techniques, 7pp; (13) Psychology of Influence (Education Persuasion) Applied to Morale Building in America, 16 lvs; (14) Long-term Aspects of Democratic Morale-Building, 7 lvs; (15) Analysis and Execution of Propaganda Campaigns, 18 lvs. The portions of this publication concerning the psychological profile of Hitler seem to pre-date the very recent re-publication of Murray�s very obscure 1943 work�again published for the OSS�on the psychological composition of Hitler. The date of publication of these sheets is somewhat uncertain, although there are no references dated after 1941. OCLC locates 2 other copies. These sheets were obviously not intended for a wide distribution. It is interesting to note the circulation card in the pocket at the rear of this work as it bears the signature of David N. Yerkes. We spoke with Mr. Yerkes recently and inquired after his interest in this work (taken out on 7 June 1944 and returned 14 June 1944), and he told the story that Henry Murray was a pupil of his father�s, who was Robert Yerkes, former president of the American Psychological Association, Professor of Psychology at Harvard and innovator in the use of psychological testing and training of American servicemen during WWI. (Book ID 22799) $5,500.00

Naturwissenshaften, Die Naturwissenschaften, Wochenschrift fuer die Fortschritte der Naturwissenschaften, der Medezin und der Technik. 1912-1972. 1st edition. 60 volumes 4to. Slightly ex-library. Naturwissenshaften, Die Naturwissenschaften, Wochenschrift fuer die Fortschritte der Naturwissenschaften, der Medezin und der Technik; Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1912-1972. 60 volumes 4to. Half-leather, some cloth-backed boards. Very good condition. Ex-library. Die Naturwissenschaften, Wochenschrift fuer die Fortschritte der Naturwissenschaften, der Medezin und der Technik. Herausgegeben von Dr. Arnold Berliner und Prof. Dr.August Puetter. Berlin; Julius Springer: 1913-1973. Vols 1-12, 14-27, 32, [there was a suspension of publication during WWII) All togther: 60 volumes. Includes Einstein: 17 papers (Boni #s 54, 61, 72, 83, 84, 93, 94, 103, 110, 117, 130, 131, 148, 158, , 159, 166, 180); Schroedinger, 7; Planck, 9 9with at least 25 citations); Bohr, 8; Heisenberg, 15; Pauli (at least 6) In 1913 Arnold Berliner, the founder of Naturwissenschaften, articulated this goal for the journal: " ... it should inform all those working in scientific fields (either as researchers or teachers) about what interests them outside their own fields." Ever since, Naturwissenschaften (Natural Sciences) has presented stimulating work by authors such as Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Max von Laue, Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, Manfred Eigen and many others. (Book ID 23233) $9,500.00

Pauli, Wolfgang. The Theory of the Positron and Related Topics (Report of a Seminar), by Professor WOlfgang Pauli, (Notes by Dr. Banesh. Princeton Universoty, 1936(7). 1st edition. 172 +11 leaves 4to. Original printed wrappers. Very fine condition. This is a seldom-to-the-market publication coming from the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, printed via mimeograph (I believe), and done so on one side of the sheet only. This is the result of Pauli's lectures given at the IAS during his first stay there (1935-1936; he would return for 1940-1945)following the Anderson discovery in 1933 of the positron (and for which he would be awarded the Nobel Prize in 1936). THe OCLC/WorldCat locates 26 copies of this work in libraries worldwide; I'm hard-pressed to remember though when last I saw a copy actually for sale in the marketplace. In addition to this title there are only three other books and three theses pubished on the positron from 1934-1940 (this obviously does not include journal articles, just stand-alone books). (Book ID 23229) $650.00

Poincare, Henri. The Present and the future of Mathematical Physics. MacMillan Company, 1906. Bulletin of teh American Mathematical Society 12, Number 5, Feb 1 PPp 241-269 Slightly ex-library. Fine copy, unusually so, in the original wrappers. One library tamp on front cover, otherwise lovely. We offer the entire issue pp 223-271. This is another version of the original 1904 report at St. Louis and its publication in The Monist of 1905. It has some interesting early comments about relativity including the following brief definition. "The principle of relativity, according to which the laws of physical phenomena must be the same for a stationary observer as for one carried along in a uniform motion of translation, so that we have no means, and can have none, of determining whether or not we are being carried along in such a motion." (Book ID 23232) $650.00

Poincare, Henri. The Principles of Mathematical Physics. The Monist, 1905 (Janu. 1st edition. 24pp Original printed wrappers. Good or better condition. This is the rare offprint from The Monist for January 1905 of Henri Poincare's famous paper. This is a rare appearance of Poincare's paper as an offprint version of this significant paper, coming just prior to the Annus Mirablis Einstein papers on Special Relativity later in the year. (1905 was a very good year for physics). **CONDITION NOTES** The scarce wrappers here are present but detached and split at the spine. The entire textblock is becoming almost entirely disbound, hanging on to itself just barely. There are also a few chips in the wrapper covers front and back. This is no doubt in need of conservation, and our price reflects that need. Still, though, it is a bright copy and is not as scary I think as I've described. __**HISTORICAL NOTES**___Poincare, in his opening address to the Paris Congress in 1900, asked Does the ether really exist? In 1904 Poincare came very close to the theory of special relativity in an address to the International Congress of Arts and Science in St Louis. He pointed out that observers in different frames will have clocks which will ... mark what on may call the local time. ... as demanded by the relativity principle the observer cannot know whether he is at rest or in absolute motion. The year that special relativity finally came into existence was 1905. June of 1905 was a good month for papers on relativity, on the 5th June PoincarÃ© communicated an important work Sur la dynamique de l'electron while Einstein's first paper on relativity was received on 30th June. PoincarÃ© stated that It seems that this impossibility of demonstrating absolute motion is a general law of nature. After naming the Lorentz transformations after Lorentz, PoincarÃ© shows that these transformations, together with the rotations, form a group. (Book ID 23234) $1,450.00

von Lang, Viktor. Bildnisse zeitgenossischer Physiker. Vienna (?): 1908 (?). 1st edition. 48 leaves Oblong 8vo. Cloth. Good or better condition. Front cover detached. Ex-libris the Franklin Institute. This is basically a festschrift for the 70th birthday of Viktor Edler von Lang (University of Vienna)and is printed from what seems to have been a cartes de visite album featuring about 375 (8 images per leaf) of the leading physicists of the day. ANd no Einstein isn't here (even though this is three or so years following the big papers of 1905 (and 1907 for that matter); but Einstein's buddy Paul Ehrenfest is. Bjerknes, Blaschke, Blaserna, BOltzmann, BRaun, (Amos) Dolbear (??!! the telephone guy), Huggins, Mach, Planck and the usual suspects. There are a LOT of folks who are quite obscure and for whom I can find very little, visually speaking. This is an unexpected treasure trove for the visual history of physics. Also, it is quite rare--only two copies are located in the WorldCat OCLC Firstseach, one at Cambridge and the other at Chicago. The book measures 6 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches, with printing on one side only. The front cover is detached, and worn, but could be salvaged. (Book ID 23209) $750.00

Wu, Experimental Test of Parity Conservation in Beta Decay. American Physical Society, 1956. The Physical Review, 15 February 1957 Original printed wrappers. Fine condition. By C. S. Wu (Columbia University, New York), with E. Ambler, R. W. Hayward, D. D. Hoppes, and R. P. Hudson (of the National Bureau of Standards, Washington). The famous paper by Wu et alia is offered in the original Physical Review wrappers--a highly important work, being the experimental confirmation of the Nobel prize work of Lee and Yang just months earlier--("Question of Parity Conservation in Weak Interactions"� by T. D. Lee Columbia University, New York, New York & C. N. Yang Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York. October 1, 1956 issue of the Physical Review, volume 104, series 2.) +++On Yang and Lee: Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee were awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for their work "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles". The work of Yang and Lee came to destroy the law of conservation of parity which had been assumed to be a fundamental law of nature; it predicted that beta particles, which are emitted by a radioactive nucleus, would fly off in any direction, regardless of the spin of the nucleus. In 1957 (Experimental Test of Parity Conservation in Beta Decay pr, 4 Feb 1957), using atoms of cobalt-60, W.S. Wu (et alia) showed that beta particles were more likely to be emitted in a particular direction that depended on the spin of the cobalt nuclei. Broken parity (symmetry) essentially means that something virtual (shadowy, but real in a special sense and widely used in physics; it has real physical consequences, since it creates all the forces of nature) has become observable (real in the ordinary everyday sense that it can be detected, measured, observed, and used. +++ Until 1956 the overwhelming majority of physicist believed that parity conservation is never violated in nature. Any new theory without evidence that went against this ingrained belief would almost certainly be dismissed. The belief in parity conservation was too strong an accepted paradigm to be challenged. Then in 1956 two Chinese physicists Yang and Lee first pointed out the exception and theoretically predicted non-conservation of parity. Initially there was predictable skepticism and it took further convincing work and subsequent experimental verification by a Chinese woman Wu and her colleagues and in 1957 the physicist community abandoned a long held belief in conservation of parity. Yang and Lee were not only vindicated, they received the Nobel Prize in Physics for this intellectual feat +++Condition note: this is a nice, fresh copy in the scarce original wrappers. The bit to note on the condition is a bump and slight tear at the top of the spine, extending down about a half inch--there is virtually no loss of the spine top edge as a result, though. Really quite a nice copy. (Book ID 23093) $1,000.00