N.Y., McGraw-Hill, 1942, un volume in 8 relié en cartonnage éditeur, 15pp., 723pp., figures dans le texte
---- Troisième édition, seconde impression. Richtmyer's chief contributions to science were his enthusiastic teaching of physics, his zeal for administration in the community of physicists and his experimental researches in x-rays spectra... After receiving the Ph.D at Cornell University in 1910, he remained on the physics staff there until his death, becoming a full professor in 1918 and dean of the graduate school in 1931... His interest in teaching is reflected not only in the courses he gave and in his supervision of graduate students but also in his celebrated book Introduction to modern physics which had considerable influence on the teaching of atomic physics and, with revisions and additions by colleagues after his death, remained a valuable work... . (DSB XI pp. 441/442)**5664/M5AR