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"MICHELSON, ALBERT.
A Theory of the X-Rays.
London, Macmillan & Co., 1896. Royal8vo. In the publisher's pictorial cloth. Gilt lettering and Nature's logo to spines and front board. In ""Nature"", May - October, 1896, Vol. 54. Entire volume offered. Slight wear to extremities and front hinge loose. Two stamps to titel page, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Rare in the publisher's binding. Pp. 66-7 [Entire volume: XXXVI, 640, CLX, 4, CLXII-CCVIII pp.].
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First appearance of Michelson's paper on Röntgen's famous discovery of X-Rays. Within six months of Wilhelm Röntgen's announcement of his discovery several proposals were put forth about the physical nature of the rays. The present suggests that X-rays is coused by vortices in the aether.Michelson famously known for the Michelson-Morley Experiment or The Ether Drag, an experiment that would ultimately lead to the special theory of relativity.
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"COMPTON, ARTHUR HOLLY. - THE DISCOVERY OF THE COMPTON-EFFECT, NOBEL PRIZE PAPER.
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(1923)
A Quantum Theory of the scattering of X-Rays by Light Elements.
Lancaster, The Physical Review, 1923. Royal8vo. Contemp. full buckram. In:""The Physical Review"", Series II, vol. 21. (4),736 pp., Plates and textillustr. (Entire volume offered). A perforated stamp in upper margin on a few leaves. Compton's paper: pp. (483-) 501.
First printing of this milestone paper in quantum physics in which Compton verifies Planck's quantum postulate and found that some of the X-rays had, in scattering, lenghtened their wavelenght. This phenomena was called the ""Compton Effect"" in his honour. For this discovery Compton received the Nobel prize in physics in 1927.""Compton was able to account for this (lenghtening of wavelenght) by presuming that a photon of light struch an electron, which recoiled, subtracting some energy from the photon and therefore increasing its wavelenght. This made it seem that a photon acted as a particle: thus after more than a century, the particulate natuer of light, as evolved by Newton, was revived... What itamounted to was that Compton brought to fruition the view that electromagnetic radiation had both a wave aspect and a particle aspect, and that the aspect which was most evident depended on how the radiation was tested. De Broglie was, at the same time, showing that this held true also for ordinary particles, such as electrons."" (Asimov)Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1923 P. - Sigmund Brandt ""The Harvest of as Century"", Episode 31.
A Quantum Theory of the scattering of X-Rays by Light Elements. - [THE DISCOVERY OF THE COMPTON-EFFECT, NOBEL PRIZE PAPER]
Lancaster, American Physical Society, 1923. Royal8vo. In the original printed wrappers. In: Physical Review, Second Series, Vol. 25, No. 5, May 1923. With black cloth back-strip. Front wrapper missing top right corner and front wrapper washed/polished. Internally fine and clean. [Compton's paper:] pp. 483-502. [Entire issue:] Pp: 483-584.
First printing of this milestone paper in quantum physics in which Compton verifies Planck's quantum postulate and found that some of the X-rays had, in scattering, lenghtened their wavelenght. This phenomena was called the ""Compton Effect"" in his honour. For this discovery Compton received the Nobel prize in physics in 1927.""Compton was able to account for this (lenghtening of wavelenght) by presuming that a photon of light struch an electron, which recoiled, subtracting some energy from the photon and therefore increasing its wavelenght. This made it seem that a photon acted as a particle: thus after more than a century, the particulate natuer of light, as evolved by Newton, was revived... What itamounted to was that Compton brought to fruition the view that electromagnetic radiation had both a wave aspect and a particle aspect, and that the aspect which was most evident depended on how the radiation was tested. De Broglie was, at the same time, showing that this held true also for ordinary particles, such as electrons."" (Asimov)Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1923 P. - Sigmund Brandt ""The Harvest of as Century"", Episode 31.
