Search Results: Authors starting with H from Atticus Rare Books

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1933. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF FRITZ HABER'S TRIBUTE TO MAX PLANCK ON HIS 75th BIRTHDAY. The tribute, "Zum fünfundsiebenzigsten Geburtstage des Präsidenten der Kaiser Wilhelm-Gesellschaft Max Planck" ("On the seventy-fifth birthday of the President of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society Max Planck") is in the April 21, 1933 issue of the journal Die Naturwissenschaften, offered here complete with a portrait of Planck. Fritz Haber, German chemist. Often thought of as the ‘father of chemical warfare', Haber received the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work that allowed for the large-scale synthesis of fertilizers and explosives. By 1931 Haber grew concerned about the rise of National Socialism in Germany. He was Jewish, and by 1933 he and his family had left Germany. Within a year, Haber was dead. Also included: "Gebrauch der Potenzfunktion zur Darstellung einer naturgesetzlichen Beziehung" by Von Markus Reiner, pp. 294-299. CONDITION & DETAILS: Complete… Read More

London: Macmillan, 2005. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF A NOBEL PRIZE WINNING PAPER ANNOUNCING THE DISCOVERY OF THE BRAIN'S ‘INNER GPS'. The question of how the brain creates "a map of the space surrounding us and how we can navigate our way through a complex environment" (Nobel Prize Web Portal). "The first clue was unveiled by O'Keefe back in 1971. He discovered the first component of this internal positioning system — a type of nerve cell that resides in the hippocampus. While studying rats, O'Keefe noticed that these cells were always activated when a rat was at a certain place in a room. Other nerve cells were activated when the rat was elsewhere. He concluded that these "place cells" formed a map of the room. "Fast forward three decades to 2005 and the work of May-Britt and Edvard Moser. [In this paper they] identified another type of nerve cell in the entorhinal cortex region in brains of rats, which they called "grid cells," that generate a coordinate system and… Read More

Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1950. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of the important first detection and report of spin echoes in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). "In magnetic resonance, a spin echo is the refocusing of spin magnetisation by a pulse of resonant electromagnetic radiation. Modern NMR and magnetic resonance imaging make use of this effect... Echo phenomena are important features of coherent spectroscopy which have been used in fields other than magnetic resonance including laser spectroscopy and neutron scattering" (Wikipedia). In 1950, Erwin Hahn, then a graduate student, was experimenting with NMR using pulsed RF energy and observed echo signals, hereafter called 'Spin Echo' or 'Hahn Echo' signals. According to Hahn, "the often cited nuclear spin echo effect was discovered by accident because I happened to be the first to use radio frequency pulses of the right sort to look at nuclear magnetic resonance signal transients... One day a strange signal appeared on… Read More

Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1939. 1st Edition. NEAR FINE CONDITION FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE OFFPRINT of the first of Hahn and Strassmann's "three fundamental papers on nuclear fission," work which, when confirmed, demonstrated the previously unknown phenomenon of nuclear fission (Dibner, Heralds of Science, 168). (NOTE: We separately offer another copy of this in very good -- somewhat faded -- condition). "Ãœber das Zerplatzen" constitutes the "first comprehensive account of the phenomenon of nuclear fission. In 1938, the radiochemist, Otto Hahn and the nuclear chemist Fritz Strassmann demonstrated the presence of radioactive barium, lanthanum and cesium among the products of neutron bombardment of uranium-a phenomenon that seemed to contradict all previous experiences of nuclear physics" (Norman). This paper "indicated fission of the uranium nucleus into two parts of about equal size with the release of much energy [in fact a tremendous jump over the energy produced in all… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1939. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of the first solid evidence that neutron multiplication is large enough (3.5) to creat a chain reaction, thus profiding "indirect proof of the neutron multiplication accompanying the fission of uranium nuclei after neutron capture" (Printing and the Mind of Man, 422). Halban, Joliot, and Kowarski reported that several free neutrons are released for each uranium that splits. Their experiments "recognized that under suitable conditions such secondary neutrons might in turn induce fission in other nuclei, setting in motion a chain reaction capable of sustaining itself until the uranium was entirely consumed" (Sikme, Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics, 261). The "experiments raised the prospect that fission might be used to generate immense quantities of energy" (ibid). CONDITION & DETAILS: London: Macmillan. 4to. (10.5 x 7.5 inches; 262 x 188mm). Original paper wraps with very slight remnants of creases within. Clean and bright inside and out.

Princeton University Press, 2005. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF THE FIRST PROOF OF THE KEPLER CONJECTURE. Complete issue. In 1611, Johannes Kepler speculated that a pyramid was the most efficient arrangement of spherical objects. The Kepler or honeycomb conjecture "is a mathematical theorem that states that no arrangement of equally sized spheres has a greater average density than that of face-centered cubic packing." But Kepler couldn't prove it - nor could a myriad of mathematicians since. Though it had been determined that there are infinite ways to stack infinitely many spheres, most were variations on only a few thousand themes. Following an idea by the Hungarian mathematician Laszlo Fejes Toth, in the late 1990s, American mathematician Thomas Callister Hales "broke the problem down into the thousands of possible sphere arrangements that mathematically represent the infinite possibilities, [then he] used software to check them all" (Aron, Proof Confirmed, New Scientist,… Read More

1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF ASAPH HALL'S DISCOVERY OF THE MOONS OF MARS. Three papers are included in this listing; the 2nd and 3rd are first editions as well. The first and most important is Hall's 1877 discovery of two moons orbiting Mars. The second, by Madan, proposes names for the moons and the third, by Hall, sanctions Madan's names. Hall was an American astronomer and mathematician, a "highly experienced and motivated satellite observer... in charge of the Alvan Clark 26 inch Great Refractor" (Pascu, History of Telescopic Observations, 2013). His "discovery of the satellites owed as much to his knowledge and insight as to his imagination and willingness to doubt conventional wisdom" (Sheehan, The Planet Mars, 63). In the first paper offered, ‘Observations and Orbits of the Satellites of Mars' -- the work that made him famous -- Hall details his discovery of the two moons orbiting Mars, including the history of his discovery as well as his search technique, timing, and the mathematics… Read More

London: Taylor and Francis, 1881. 1st Edition. Bound, full volume first edition of two papers: EDWIN HALL'S SIGNIFICANT FOLLOW-UP WORK TO HIS 1880 DISCOVERY OF THE HALL EFFECT, a "seminal and foundational experiment of condensed matter physics" (Armitage, Notes on Hall Effect Experiments). The paper offered presents further work on the Hall Effect. Withbound, ALAN MARQUAND'S FIRST MECHANICAL LOGICAL ENGINE, "one that is still extant" (Wikipedia). Both papers are discussed below. HALL'S PAPER: "The Hall effect occurs when an electric current is placed in a magnetic field, causing a potential difference and a transverse field is created. By measuring the potential one can calculate the strength of the magnetic field" (Armitage). "The Hall Effect... provides an introduction to computer acquisition, magnetic probes, and transport experiments... which are really the bread and butter of condensed matter experiments. It is only a slight overstatement to say that all other experiments one does in condensed… Read More

London: Taylor & Francis, 1880. 1st Edition. 1st EDITION OF THE 1st WIDE PUBLICATION OF EDWIN HALL'S DISCOVERY OF THE HALL EFFECT, here the March 1880 issue extracted in its entirety, inclusive of 2 plates & handsomely bound in calf over marbled paper boards. [We offer the full volume separately]. The Hall effect occurs when an electric current is placed in a magnetic field, causing a potential difference and a transverse field is created. By measuring the potential one can calculate the strength of the magnetic field. Hall's discovery is considered a "seminal and foundational experiment of condensed matter physics" (Armitage, Notes on Hall Effect Experiments). We also offer Hall's 1881 follow up paper separately. While working on his doctoral thesis in physics, Edwin Hall discovered the Hall Effect; in late 1879 while still a graduate student he published his findings in a small journal edited by scientists studied with at Johns Hopkins. That publication is considered the "preliminary notice" of… Read More

London: John William Parker, 1839. 1st Edition. THREE ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION ARTICLES ON THE DIVING BELL. The illustrations, respectively, are titled "Man Equipped in Klingert's Armour Preparatory to Diving," "Dr. Halley's Diving Bell," and "Spalding's Diving Bell." "Dr. Halley's Diving Bell" appears as the cover illustration. Diving bells designed by John Taisnier, Klingert, Trewald, Spalding, Smeaton, Brunel and Halley are discussed at length, with the Klingert, Halley, and Spalding illustrated as noted above. CONDITION & DETAILS: London: John William Parker. Complete volume 14 and 15 (bound as one), January to December. 4to. 11.25 by 7.5 inches (281 x 186mm). [8], 256, [4], 4, [256], 8. Bound in half-calf over marbled paper boards. Gilt-lettered, red morocco spine label. Blind-tooled at the spine and the edges of the calf. Some rubbing and scuffing at the edge tips. Tightly and solidly bound. Bright and clean inside. Very good condition.

New York: AIEE. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF 2 RARE OFFPRINTS (1st separate ed) BY WILLIAM J. HAMMER. THE 1903 IS THE 1st PRINTING OF THE LECTURE WHICH LATER THAT SAME YEAR WOULD BECOME "THE 1st BOOK PUBLISHED ON RADIUM" (Smithsonian Archive). THE 2nd OFFPRINT IS A SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY TO BECQUEREL. FURTHER, IT CONTAINS A 2 PAGE APPENDIX BY PIERRE CURIE WRITTEN THE SAME YEAR THE CURIES SUCCESSFULLY ISOLATED RADIOACTIVE RADIUM SALTS. Hammer carried on a "lifelong association with the foremost scientists of his day -- Edison, Bell, Maxim, the Curies, the Wright brothers, and others" (ibid). In April 1903 the pioneering American electrical engineer William Joseph Hammer delivered a lecture, "Radium and Other Radioactive Substances..." at the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. He included 38 slides, most photographic; 32 are included in the offprint with no evidence any are missing. Many are photos of scanned images of mice; some photos of lab equipment. The printed book - issued after… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co, 1964. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF TED HARRISON'S SOLUTION TO A CLASSICAL PROBLEM IN ASTRONOMY KNOW AS OLBERS' PARADOX. ALSO INCLUDED, CHRISTOPHER HARRISON & BRIAN FUNNELL'S "DISCOVERY THAT DEEP-SEA SEDIMENTS RECORD REVERSALS OF THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD" (Gornitz, Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology, 159). Complete volume. The British astronomer and cosmologist Ted Harrison had long been fascinated by Olbers' Paradox. Writing in this volume, he notes that the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers "was the first to show that the radiation density everywhere in an infinite static universe should equal the radiation density at the surface of the stars" " (Harrison, p. 271). In other words, Olbers' paradox is that the sky is dark at night. Also known as the ‘dark night sky paradox', the issue is simple: If the universe is infinite and filled with stars, the surface brightness of the night sky should be the same as the Sun's, so the night sky should be as bright as the… Read More

New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Co, 1928. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF RALPH HARTLEY'S FOUNDATIONAL PAPER ON INFORMATION THEORY -- work that was "the single most important prerequisite" for Shannon's theory of information" (Wikipedia). Shannon acknowledged his debt to Hartley in the first paragraph of his landmark 1948 paper "A mathematical theory of communication," -- the paper in which Shannon introduced a qualitative and quantitative model of communication that solved the problem of reproducing at any given point a message originating at another point. Hartley had a way of thinking philosophically about the transmission of information, a habit that led to his unconventional method of formulating the problem of communication. Hartley "regarded the sender of a message as equipped with a set of symbols (the letters of the alphabet for instance) from which he mentally selects symbol after symbol, thus generating a sequence of symbols. He observed that a chance event, such as the rolling of… Read More

London: Royal Society, 1939. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OFFPRINT OF DOUGLAS HARTREE'S DEVELOPMENT OF THE "SELF-CONSISTENT FIELD METHOD TO THE CALCULATION OF ATOMIC WAVE FUNCTIONS OF POLYELECTRONIC ATOMS" (Dictionary of Scientific Biography, VI, 147). "Hartree played a fundamental role in the field of twentieth-century numerical analysis and its application to theoretical physics" (ibid). "The mid- to late 1920s was a time of great change and excitement in theoretical physics, and Hartree was becoming a well-known figure in the field. When news of Erwin Schrödinger's work on wave mechanics reached Cambridge, Hartree was ideally placed to make a contribution...His experience of numerical integration of differential equations, gained during his ballistics work in World War I, was invaluable. Hartree was able to develop and apply numerical techniques to the solution of increasingly complex atomic structures" (ibid). By 1939 and with the publication of this paper, Hartree made "his chief contribution… Read More

World Scientific, 1990. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF HAWKING'S TWO PAPERS DISCUSSING BABY UNIVERSES & BLACK HOLES. In his own words: "How can a black hole give off radiation. How can anything get out through the event horizon of a black hole. The answer is, the Uncertainty Principle, allows particles to travel faster than light, for a small distance. This enables particles and radiation, to get out through the event horizon, and escape from the black hole. Thus, it is possible for things to get out of a black hole. However, what comes out of a black hole, will be different from what fell in. Only the energy will be the same. "As a black hole gives off particles and radiation, it will lose mass. This will cause the black hole to get smaller, and to send out particles more rapidly. Eventually, it will get down to zero mass, and will disappear completely. What will happen then to the objects, including possible spaceships, that fell into the black hole. According to some recent… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1974. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF HAWKING'S MOST IMPORTANT PAPER, HERE PREDICTING THAT BLACK HOLES RELEASE BLACKBODY RADIATION NOW KNOWN AS HAWKING RADIATION. Hawking's Royal Society obituary stated: "It is fair to say that Stephen's discovery ranks as one of the most important results ever in fundamental physics" (Carr, et al. ‘Stephen William Hawking CH CBE. 8 January 1942 - 14 March 2018,' Bibliographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 66, June 2019). Running completely counter to prevailing ideas about black holes at the time, Hawking demonstrated that primordial black holes (those with very low mass) would evaporate and explode within a timescale shorter than the age of the Universe. If primordial black holes were formed in the early Universe, these explosions could, in principle, be detected observationally. At its heart, Hawking's theory is an area/entropy equation. It relates the entropy of a black hole (or, in essence, the amount of… Read More

Baltimore: Physiological Researches, 1913. 1st Edition. SCARCE 1913 FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT ISSUE. "This study has to do with the influence of one salt in altering the toxic effect of another upon fungus spores. It is shown that the toxic effect of copper nitrate on the germination of Gloeosporium spores can be inhibited or modified by the addition to the medium of calcium nitrate and that the molecular ratio of the quantity of the calcium salt thus required to the amount of copper nitrate present increases with the concentration of the latter." CONDITION & DETAILS: Baltimore: Physiological Researches. The Influence of Calcium, Magnesium and Potassium Nitrates Upon the Toxicity of Certain Heavy Metals Toward Fungus Spores Physiological Researches, Vol. I, No. 2, August, 1913, pp. 57-92. Bound in original paper wraps with very minor darkening on the rear. Very good condition in every way.

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1931. 1st Edition. 1st EDITION. COMPLETE VOLUME OF HÃœCKEL'S FIRST LONG PAPER ON THE QUANTUM MECHANICS OF AROMATIC AND UNSATURATED MOLECULES, TOGETHER CONSITUTING THE HÃœCKEL METHOD OR HÃœCKEL MOLECULAR ORBITAL METHOD (HMO) & PROVIDING "THE FIRST QUANTUM THEORETICAL DESCRIPTION OF BENZENE" (DSB). The three founders of 20th c. quantum chemistry were Erich Hückel, Friedrich Hund, and Robert S. Mullikan. Hückel studied physics and mathematics in Göttingen and 1929, Bohr suggested that he "should try to apply the modern quantum mechanics to chemical problems, especially the double bonds of carbon. The development of the so-called Hückel molecular orbital theory is regarded as his opus magnum" (Bard, Electrochemical Dictionary 426). Mulliken later referred to the first of Hückel's papers [this paper] as 'monumental'" (Karachalios, Erich Hückel, 77). As a concept, molecular orbital theory " -- a method for determining molecular structure in which electrons are not assigned… Read More

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1931. 1st Edition. THREE FULL VOLUMES, 1st EDITIONS OF HÃœCKEL'S THREE LONG PAPERS ON THE QUANTUM MECHANICS OF AROMATIC AND UNSATURATED MOLECULES, TOGETHER CONSITUTING THE HÃœCKEL METHOD OR HÃœCKEL MOLECULAR ORBITAL METHOD (HMO) & PROVIDING "THE FIRST QUANTUM THEORETICAL DESCRIPTION OF BENZENE" (DSB). As a concept, molecular orbital theory " -- a method for determining molecular structure in which electrons are not assigned to individual bonds between atoms but are treated as moving under the influence of the nuclei in the whole molecule" -- was extendable to large molecules of atoms, but Hückel was the first to do so (Wikipedia). Beginning in 1931 and with the first of these papers, Erich Hückel developed an approach that could be used for conjugated systems, [meaning] the electron is considered free to travel throughout the length of a conjugated system" (Allen, Biophysical Chemistry, 276). The three founders of 20th c. quantum chemistry were Erich Hückel, Friedrich… Read More

Washington DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2005. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS - Heath et al report on findings in Europe that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reduced sequestration of root-derived carbon in the soil and raises concerns about what is happening in other forest ecosystems. Heath and his team document their findings that "forests have a key role as carbon sinks, which could potentially mitigate the continuing increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and associated climate change" (Heath et al., 2005, 1171). This issue bears the address label of Gary L. Bennett, an American scientist and engineer, specializing in aerospace and energy and whose "professional career has included work on the Voyager, Galileo, and Ulysses space missions" (Wikipedia). "Forests have a key role as carbon sinks, which could potentially mitigate the continuing increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and associated climate change. We… Read More