Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

Associazione Roberto Almagià, 2016 Square 8vo (24 x 24 cm), 232 pp. Laminated wrappers with flaps (minor shelf-wear, small tear top of the page 95). Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition held in Bergamo 16 April - 10 July 2016. 74 entries.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1951 8vo (23.5 cm), XIV, 528 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spine (binding little rubbed at extremities). First edition. John Slater (1900-1976) was a noted American physicist who made major contributions to the theory of the electronic structure of atoms, molecules and solids. The book, together with Mechanics (1947) and Electromagnetism (1947), formed a complete treatment on the intermediate level of difficulty, of most contemporary theoretical physics with the exception of nuclear theory.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956 8vo (24.5 cm), VIII, 229 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj chipped top of spine, small stains bottom of few first pages, ownership signature on title). First edition, second printing. Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls (1907-1995) was a German-born British physicist who played a major role in the Britain's nuclear weapon programme, as well as the subsequent Manhattan Project. The book develops the subject from the basic principle of quantum mechanics. The treatment covers the electron theory of metals as well as the dynamics of crystals, including the author's work on the thermal conductivity of crystals.

Bruxelles: Bibliotheca Wittockiana, 2002 8vo (24 cm), 168 pp. Printed wrappers. Inscribed by Adrienne Fontainas to a Belgian bookbinder and bibliophile Marianne Delvaux-Diercxsens. The catalogue of an exhibition in Bibliotheca Wittockiana.