‎Tolansky (S.)‎
‎Curiosities of Light Rays and Light Waves‎

‎American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1965 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's binding, under editor's white printed dust-jacket, illustrated by a waves on a black figure In-8 1 vol. - 118 pages‎

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‎1 plate in frontispiece, 16 plates out of text, summing 24 figures (complete) and 52 text-figures 1st edition, 1965 "Contents, Chapitres : Contents, Foreword, vi, Text, 111 pages with the index of plates - Some early ideas on light - Multiple reflections of light rays - Colour - Refraction and total internal reflection - Light as waves - Interferometry - Surface microphotography - Doppler effect - Recent developments in physics through optics - Inde of plates - Samuel Tolansky, 17 November 1907 4 March 1973). He was nominated for a Nobel Prize, has a crater on the moon named after him near the Apollo 14 landing site and he was a principal investigator to the NASA lunar project known as the Apollo program. - He began work at the University of Manchester, 193447, as an Assistant Lecturer, later Senior Lecturer and Reader, under Prof William Lawrence Bragg. At Manchester he continued work on nuclear spins and did war work involving the optical spectroscopy of uranium-235 measuring its spin. He also developed multiple-beam interferometry, continued teaching and wrote ""Introduction to Atomic Physics"" in 1942. - Amongst work he carried out he was particularly interested in the optics of diamond and, partly in this respect, investigated optical characteristics of moon dust from the Apollo 11 first moon landing. In 1969 he appeared on the BBC astronomy programme The Sky at Night explaining the dimensions of space, and introduced the concept of 2-dimensional 'Flatlanders'. (source : Wikipedia)" near fine copy, the dust-jacket is nearly complete, with a very small missing on the top left corner and the top of the spine, the dust-jacket remains in pretty good condition, lightly yellowing with 2 small spots on the left side, inside is fine and complete of the frontispiece and the 16 plates, no markings‎