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An Attempt to Calculate the Number of Energy Levels of a Heavy Nucleus in Physical Review 50, 4,...

An Attempt to Calculate the Number of Energy Levels of a Heavy Nucleus in Physical Review 50, 4, August 15, 1935, pp. 332-342 [1st edition ORIGINAL WRAPS: THE FIRST DERIVATION OF THE LEVEL DENSITY FOR A GAS OF FREE NUCLEONS

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FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE FIRST DERIVATION OF THE LEVEL DENSITY FOR A GAS OF FREE NUCLEONS. "This expression, after suitably correcting for interactions present in actual nuclei, has been widely used to predict nuclear level densities" (Cook, Nuclear Level Densities, AJP, 20, 1967, p. 477). The nuclear level density "is the important quantity that may be used to describe thermodynamic properties nuclei, such as the nuclear entropy, specific heat, and temperature" (Dean, Pairing in Nuclear Systems, 9). ALSO INCLUDED: Bainbridge, Kenneth T. and Edward B. Jordan "Mass Spectrum Analysis 1. The Mass Spectrograph 2. The Existence of Isobars of Adjacent Elements" in Physical Review 50, 4, August 15, 1935, pp. 282-296. First edition in original wraps of the invention of the double focusing spectrometer. In 1936, Kenneth Bainbridge and Edward Jordan built a double focusing spectrometer at Harvard University. In 1919 Aston developed the first really good mass spectrograph, an instrument for… Read More
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On the Secular Variation of the Moon's Mean Motion extracted from Philosophical Transactions of...

On the Secular Variation of the Moon's Mean Motion extracted from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. 143, Part III, 1853, pp. 397-406

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London: Taylor and Francis, 1853. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION of an important and consequential paper in which John Couch Adams announces new mathematical methods in dealing with the pertubations of the Moon, and in so doing corrects Laplace's famed 1788 memoir. Laplace studied the Moon's mean rate of motion relative to the stars; his work provided an explanation in terms of changes in the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit considering only the radial gravitational forces on the Moon from the Sun and Earth and had obtained close agreement with historical observational records. "Adams showed that Laplace's solution was incorrect. In particular, Laplace had ignored a variation in solar eccentricity that introduces into the differential equations for the moon's motion a series of additional terms" (DSB I, p. 54b). In other works, Adams paper showed that while tangential terms vanish in the first-order theory of Laplace, they became substantial when quadratic terms are admitted. Small terms integrated in… Read More
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The Action of Light on Selenium in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 25,1877,...

The Action of Light on Selenium in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 25,1877, pp. 113-117 [2nd Printing of THE FIRST DEMONSTRATION THAT ELECTRICITY COULD BE PRODUCED FROM LIGHT WITHOUT MOVING PARTS AND LED TO THE MODERN SOLAR CELL]

by Adams, W. G. and R. E. Day

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London: Royal Society, 1877. 1877. Bound Proceedings of the Royal Society printing of the invention of the solar cell. We offer the first edition, published in the Philosophical Transactions separately]. ADAMS' & DAYS DEMONSTRATION THAT ELECTRICITY COULD BE PRODUCED FROM LIGHT WITHOUT MOVING PARTS AND LED TO THE MODERN SOLAR CELL" (Wikipedia). William Grylls Adams and Richard Evans Day write of their discovery of a completely new phenomenon - "that light had caused a flow of electricity through a solid material. Adams and Day called current produced by light "photoelectric." Today, we call it "photovoltaic." (Perlin). Community Environmental Council, From Selenium to Silicon and Beyond). Note that this paper was also published in The Philosophical Transactions just prior to this publication. The field of solar photovoltaics began in 1872 when British engineer Willoughby Smith published a paper on the photo-sensitivity of selenium. The dream of harnessing the near limitless energy of the sun… Read More
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The Action of Light on Selenium in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Volume 167, [Received 1876], 1877, pp. 313-349. [EXTRACT: INVENTION OF THE SOLAR CELL. 1st DEMONSTRATION THAT ELECTRICITY COULD BE PRODUCED FROM LIGHT WITHOUT MOVING PARTS AND LED TO THE MODERN SOLAR CELL]

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London: Royal Society, 1877. 1877. PRISTINE EXTRACT, 1st edition of the INVENTION OF THE SOLAR CELL. This printing is the true first and preceeds the Proceedings of the Royal Society printing which we offer separately]. ADAMS' & DAYS DEMONSTRATION THAT ELECTRICITY COULD BE PRODUCED FROM LIGHT WITHOUT MOVING PARTS AND LED TO THE MODERN SOLAR CELL" (Wikipedia). William Grylls Adams and Richard Evans Day write of their discovery of a completely new phenomenon - "that light had caused a flow of electricity through a solid material. Adams and Day called current produced by light "photoelectric." Today, we call it "photovoltaic." (Perlin). Community Environmental Council, From Selenium to Silicon and Beyond). Note that this paper was also published in The Philosophical Transactions just prior to this publication. The field of solar photovoltaics began in 1872 when British engineer Willoughby Smith published a paper on the photo-sensitivity of selenium. The dream of harnessing the near limitless energy of… Read More
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Time and the Quantum: Erasing the Past and Impacting the Future in Science 307 No. 5711 pp....

Time and the Quantum: Erasing the Past and Impacting the Future in Science 307 No. 5711 pp. 875-879, February 11, 2005 [Delayed Choice Quantum Experiments]

by Aharonov, Yakir; Zubairy, M. Suhail

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New York: America Association for the Advancement of Science, 2005. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS: AHARONOV & ZUBAIRY'S 2005 PAPER ON THE QUANTUM ERASER EXPERIMENT. Their paper provides salient history and perspective on, just as the name of the paper alludes, time and the quantum. Specifically, the authors address Scully and Drühl's quantum eraser experiment - the first successful "quantum eraser" experiment and one that incorporated concepts considered in Wheeler's delayed choice experiment. In 1978, Einstein's last collaborator John Wheeler conducted a milestone thought experiment that has come to be known as Wheeler's delayed choice experiment. Wheeler's paper has generated many subsequent quantum experiments, among them the one offered here. In Wheeler's 1978 experiment, "a single photon has two paths it could take in an interferometer. In its wave character, the photon will take both paths simultaneously. In its particle character, the photon needs to decide which of the two… Read More
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On Scheutz's calculating machine, in The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, Fourth Series, Vol. 12, No. 78, December 1856, pp. 225-6

by Airy, G. B.

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London: Taylor and Francis, 1856. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF RARE AND PARTICULARLY CURIOUS PAPER OFFERING DETAILED IMPROVEMENTS TO SCHEUTZ'S FULLY FUNCTIONAL MODEL OF BABBAGE'S DIFFERENCE ENGINE by one of Babbage's "most vigorous detractors" (Computer History Website). The credit of inventing the first computing machines goes to the two Stockholm Based scientists, George and Edvard Scheutz . "Inspired in 1834 by Babbage's work, Georg Scheutz (1785-1873) a Swedish printer, publisher, journalist, translator and inventor, set about building a difference engine of his own. At first, he speculated that just one of Babbage's engines 'would suffice the needs of the whole world'" (ibid). "Each of its long shafts holds disks, and each disk has wheels with ten teeth that correspond to marks in the disks. A scientist could set the disks with known figures, odd or even, turn a crank, and by reading down on each shaft, find the result of a calculation. "The Scheutzes had no interest in… Read More
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On the Laws of the Rise and Fall of the Tides in the River Thames. Vol. 132, pp. 1-8, Received July 3, 1841. Read Nov. 25, 1841. Published 1842

by Airy, G. B. [George Biddell]

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London: The Royal Society, 1842. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACT. 2 plates The plates with very light toning the text is bright and clean. Very good condition. Airy was an English mathematician and astronomer as well as Lucasian professor at Cambridge and Astronomer Royal. Among "his many achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, a method of solution of two-dimensional problems in solid mechanics and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian" (Wikipedia). Airy's discovery of a new inequality in the motions of Venus and the earth is in some respects his most remarkable achievement.
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On the eclipses of Agathocles, Thales and Xerxes, Vol. 143, pp. 179-200, Received Dec. 15, 1859. Read Feb 3, 1853. Published Dec. 31, 1853

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London: The Royal Society, 1853. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACT. 2 plates; 1 large fold-out plate. The plates are toned; there is very slight toning at the edges of the paper; minor. Very good condition. Airy was an English mathematician and astronomer as well as Lucasian professor at Cambridge and Astronomer Royal. Among "his many achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, a method of solution of two-dimensional problems in solid mechanics and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian" (Wikipedia). Airy's discovery of a new inequality in the motions of Venus and the earth is in some respects his most remarkable achievement. Airy's abstract for this paper: "Till the beginning of the present century, neither the mechanical theory of the moon's motion, nor the numerical determination of her principal elements, nor the lunar tables founded on these, were sufficiently accurate for the computation of a… Read More
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Account of the Construction of the New National Strandard of Length, and of its principal Copies, Vol. 147, pp. 621-702, May 2, 1857, Read June 8, 1957, Published Dec. 31, 1857 [Extract] [Poids and Measures]

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London: The Royal Society, 1857. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACT. Slight toning at the edges of the paper; minor. Near fine condition. Airy was an English mathematician and astronomer as well as Lucasian professor at Cambridge and Astronomer Royal. Among "his many achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, a method of solution of two-dimensional problems in solid mechanics and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian" (Wikipedia). Airy's discovery of a new inequality in the motions of Venus and the earth is in some respects his most remarkable achievement. Airy's abstract for this paper: "In presenting this Report to the Royal Society, I must solicit their indulgence for many imperfections, arising from the circumstances under which the task of writing it has devolved on me. Through the whole account, I have to record the proceedings of others, and (in a great measure) I have to describe the trains… Read More
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On the laws of individual tides at Southampton and at Ipswich, pp. 45-54, Received Feb. 16, 1843. Read March 2, 1843. Published Dec. 31, 1843

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London: The Royal Society, 1843. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACT. 2 plates The plates have light stains; the text is bright and clean. Very good condition. Airy was an English mathematician and astronomer as well as Lucasian professor at Cambridge and Astronomer Royal. Among "his many achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, a method of solution of two-dimensional problems in solid mechanics and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian" (Wikipedia). Airy's discovery of a new inequality in the motions of Venus and the earth is in some respects his most remarkable achievement. The Royal Society's abstract for this paper: "The author gives the results of his own personal observations of the tides at Southampton and at Ipswich, in both of which places they present some remarkable peculiarities. In conducting these inquiries he obtained, through the favour of Colonel Colby, R. E., and Lieut. Yelland,… Read More
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Account of the Construction of the New National Standard of Length, and of its Principal Copies [Extracted From] The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Volume 147, Read June 18th, 1857, Published 1858, pp. 621-702

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London: The Royal Society, 1858. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACT OF A PAPER BY GEORGE BIDDELL AIRY (1801-1892). The original standards of length and weight were destroyed in the great fire at the Houses of Parliament in 1834. Airy undertook the exposition and experimentation to establish new national standards, presented here in this paper. Three engraved plates with minor foxing. The text is bright and clean. Very good. Airy was an English mathematician and astronomer as well as Lucasian professor at Cambridge and Astronomer Royal. Among "his many achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, a method of solution of two-dimensional problems in solid mechanics and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian" (Wikipedia). Airy's discovery of a new inequality in the motions of Venus and the earth is in some respects his most remarkable achievement.
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Computation of the Lengths of the Waves of Light Corresponding to the Lines in the Dispersion Spectrum Measured by Kirchhoff, pp. 29-55 WITH Corrections to the Computed Lengths of Light, pp. 89-109 [Extracted From] The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Volume 158, Read March 21, 1867, Published 1868, pp. 29-55

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London: The Royal Society, 1868. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACTS OF TWO PAPERS, the second a correction of the first, BY GEORGE BIDDELL AIRY (1801-1892). Airy's papers are commentaries on Kirchhoff's conversion of spectral measures into wave-lengths and the first paper also includes nineteen tables of Kirchhoff's measures. The second paper also includes a lithographic chart (full plate). 4to. Both papers in near fine condition. Airy was an English mathematician and astronomer as well as Lucasian professor at Cambridge and Astronomer Royal. Among "his many achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, a method of solution of two-dimensional problems in solid mechanics and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian" (Wikipedia). Airy's discovery of a new inequality in the motions of Venus and the earth is in some respects his most remarkable achievement.
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Discussion of the Observed Deviations of the Compass in several Ships, Wood-built and Iron-built: with a General Table for facilitating the examination of Compass Deviations, Vol. 146, Received Sptember 14, 1855, Read November 22, 1855, Published 31 December 1856 [Extract]

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London: The Royal Society, 1856. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACT. This Airy paper contains the results of examination of the compass in two iron-built ships, and a general theory of the effect of the transient induced magnetism of iron in disturbing the direction of the compass-needle. Other than small tear at the inner margin of the first page, near fine condition. Airy was an English mathematician and astronomer as well as Lucasian professor at Cambridge and Astronomer Royal. Among "his many achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, a method of solution of two-dimensional problems in solid mechanics and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian" (Wikipedia). Airy's discovery of a new inequality in the motions of Venus and the earth is in some respects his most remarkable achievement.
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The Bakerian Lecture: On the Theoretical Explanation of an Apparent New Polarity in Light [Extracted From] The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 130, pp.225-244, 1840

by Airy, George Biddell

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London: Royal Society, 1840. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACTS OF GEORGE BIDDELL AIRY'S 1840 BAKERIAN LECTURE. This is not an ex-library copy. No stamps of any kind. Includes a long fold-out ithographic chart. 4to. Near fine condition. Airy was an English mathematician and astronomer as well as Lucasian professor at Cambridge and Astronomer Royal. Among "his many achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, a method of solution of two-dimensional problems in solid mechanics and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian" (Wikipedia). Airy's discovery of a new inequality in the motions of Venus and the earth is in some respects his most remarkable achievement.
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London: The Royal Society, 1868. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACTS OF "THE FIRST COORDINATED STUDY OF EARTH CURRENTS & THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO MAGNETIC VARIATIONS" (Zhdanov, Foundations of Geophysical Electromagnetic Theory and Methods, xxxi). George Biddell Airy's paper includes (1801-1892) five two-color lithographic chart (full plates). 4to. Not ex-library; no stamps of any kind. The plates have moderate foxing; the paper is in fine condition. Airy was an English mathematician and astronomer as well as Lucasian professor at Cambridge and Astronomer Royal. Among "his many achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, a method of solution of two-dimensional problems in solid mechanics and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian" (Wikipedia). Airy's discovery of a new inequality in the motions of Venus and the earth is in some respects his most remarkable achievement.
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Study of Nuclear Structure by Electromagnetic Excitation with Accelerated Ions in Reviews of...

Study of Nuclear Structure by Electromagnetic Excitation with Accelerated Ions in Reviews of Modern Physics 28, 4, October, 1956, pp. 432-542

by Alder, Kurt; Bohr, Aage; Huss, T; Mottelson, Ben; Winther, Aage

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FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF A "LANDMARK REVIEW" & "DEFINITIVE THEORY" OF COULOMB EXCITATION & ONE OF THE 100 MOST CITED PAPERS TO APPEAR IN THE JOURNAL REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS(Cline, "Nuclear Shapes", Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part, 1986, 684; History of Physics: The Wenner Collection). Though the origin of the theory of Coulomb excitation can be traced back to a 1913 paper by Bohr on atomic Coulomb excitation,"the theoretical foundation of [it] was summarized in the 1956 landmark review paper [this paper] by the Copenhagen group" (Cline, "Nuclear Shapes", Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part, 1986, 684). The Copenhagen group consisted of Alder, Bohr, Huss, Mottelson, and Winther. Their paper is "famous" as both an important study and a classic review of Coulomb excitation. (Hamilton, Electromagnetic Excitation, Physics Bulletin, 27, 6). They investigated the issue "both experimentally and theoretically"; the result is a very detailed study now considered the "definitive theory of Coulomb excitation. Often… Read More
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Does the agent of scrapie replicate without nucleic acid? in Nature 214, 20 May 1967, pp. 764-766 (Alper) + Self-0replication and scrapie in Nature 215, 2 September 1967, pp. 1043-1044 (Griffith) + Viroids and Prions in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 79, No. 17, 1 September 1, 1982, pp. 5220-5225 (Prusiner) + Prions and neurodegenerative diseases in New England Journal of Medicine 317, 1987, pp. 1571-1581 (Prusiner)

by Alper, Tikvah + Griffith, John Stanley + Prusiner, Stanley B.

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1st Edition. FOUR VOLUME FIRST EDITIONS, THREE IN ORIGINAL WRAPS, OF THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING DISCOVERY OF THE PRION, A NEW BIOLOGICAL INFECTIOUS AGENT COMPOSED ENTIRELY OF PROTEIN. The prion has been implicated in a number of diseases, including bovine spongiform encephalopathy ('mad cow disease') and human degenerative neurological disorders like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Alpers Syndrome, Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome, fatal familial insomnia, and kuru. During the 1960s [and in the first two papers offered here] two London-based researchers, radiation biologists Tikvah Alper and mathematician John Stanley Griffith, developed the hypothesized in 1967 that transmissible spongiform encephalopathies are caused by proteins (first two papers). The third paper (Prusiner) describes research that demonstrates that this infectious agent is in fact a protein, not RNA (a viroid) or a virus. The fourth paper (also by Prusiner) presents a broad overview of the Prion and its diseases. Prusiner was… Read More
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Search for Hidden Chambers in the Pyramids in Science 167 No. 3919 pp. 832-839, February 6, 1970

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Washington DC: The American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1970. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE FIRST USE OF MUON RADIOGRAPHY TO SEARCH PYRAMIDS. Luis Walter Alvarez (1911-1988) used cosmic rays to search for hidden chambers in the pyramids and in the paper offered here, Alvarez describes the experiment and its results. In 1968 he was awarded Nobel Prize in Physics 1968, the first Latino to do so. Specifically, the award noted " his decisive contributions to elementary particle physics, in particular the discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possible through his development of the technique of using hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis" (Nobel Prize Committee). Early in his scientific career, Alvarez, always an experimental physicist, worked concurrently in the fields of optics and cosmic rays. Beginning in 1967, he began to devote much of his time to the study of cosmic rays - this, just as "scientists [were] first [starting to use] the tools… Read More
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On the Absorption and the Diffusion of Slow Neutrons, The Physical Review, Volume 50, Number 10,...

On the Absorption and the Diffusion of Slow Neutrons, The Physical Review, Volume 50, Number 10, November 15, 1936, pp. 899-928 [FIRST PRINTING IN ENGLISH, ORIGINAL WRAPS]

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FIRST PRINTING IN ENGLISH, ORIGINAL WRAPS, of "the classical paper on absorption properties of slow neutrons, establishing ‘the existence of absorption bands corresponding to energy intervals sufficiently narrow to allow one to isolate relatively homogenous neutron groups'. In addition, absorption and scattering properties of various groups of neutrons were investigated" (Fisher, Changing Landscapes of Nuclear Physics, 165; Amaldi & Fermi 1936, p. 899). Earlier work by Amaldi et al. 1935 had established that slow neutrons, including thermal neutrons, can be created only by slowing down (in moderators) the fast neutrons emitted by the sources. This 1936 paper is considered the "most valuable and comprehensive accounts of the slowing-down of neutrons and the properties of slow neutrons" (Advances in Radiochemistry, 48). Although Fermi is often remembered for his theory on beta-decay, he was also the world's leading expert on neutrons and his 1938 Nobel Prize was awarded for his work on slow… Read More
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Discours sur quelques proprietes de l'Air & le moyen d'en connoitre la temperature dans tous les...

Discours sur quelques proprietes de l'Air & le moyen d'en connoitre la temperature dans tous les climats de la Terre in Histoire et Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences [AMSTERDAM EDITION] Annee 1702, pp. 216-243, 1737

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Amsterdam. FULL VOLUME 1st AMSTERDAM EDITION OF AMONTONS' DESCRIPTION OF HIS CONSTANT VOLUME AIR THERMOMETER, a device that functioned "independent of the atmospheric pressure). In other words, this is "Amontons' account of his invention of the first thermometer with which temperature was measured by the pressure of air."(Magie "A Source book in Physics," pp. 128. In Amontons' invention, "air occupied the top of one of the branches of a U-shaped tube, and by its dilation it pushed down one of the mercury columns so that the other end of the branch formed a barometric chamber" (Dictionary of Scientific Biography 1, 138). His device evolved from the work of Galileo, Boyle, and others. In the paper offered here, Amontons describes that process as well as the construction and function of his invention. As stated (but here in a bit more detail) Amontons' thermometer consisted of a U-shaped tube ending in a bulb, filled with mercury, the long end of the tube being 45 inches, the height of the long arm… Read More
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