Erfurt & Leipzig, Körner Verlag, 1855. Cont. hcalf. Richly gilt back. Both inner hinge broken. IV,786 pp. Many fine woodcut-illustr. in the text. A little brownspotted.
Erfurt, Körner, 1871, in-8°, 196 S., mit 171 Abb. in Holzschnitt, Halblederband.
Crüger war erster Lehrer in Brandenburg an d. Havel und Eisleben, Rektor und Schuléinspector in Zehdenick und Havelberg. Seine Lehrbücher der Physik erschienen alle vielmals aufgelegt. Vorliegendes Werk erschien in 21 Auflagen (1883). Poggendorff III/315 .
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SOCIETE FRANCAISE DE PHYSIQUE COLLECTION DE MEMOIRES RELATIFS A LA PHYSIQUE CONFERENCES FAITES EN 1912 PAR BAUER, BLANC, BLOCH, P.CURIE, DEBIERNE, DUNOYER, LANGEVIN, PERRIN, POINCARE, WEISS. In 8° (250 x 170 mm) relié demi veau époque, dos à 5 nerfs, cachet 370 pp Nicely bound in half dark green leather with mottled green paper-covered boards. Top edges gilt.[iv] 370,[1]pp. Bookplate, previous owner's name in neat blue pencil, a few very slight scuff marks on the leather, else very good plus. Nice copy
P., Dunod (Collection "Monographies Dunod" N°24), 1960, in 12 reliure pleine toile de l'éditeur, IX-209 pages.
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(Paris), Journal de Physique et le Radium, 1933. Royal8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. A small closed tear to frontwrapper, no loss. Offprint/ Extrait from ""Le Journal de Physique et le Radium"", Aout 1933, Série VII, T. IV, No 8. - 4 pp. (incl. titlepage). This copy has belonged to the Swedish physicist J. Tandberg with his name in ink in top of frontwrapper ""J. Tandberg/ Paris 28/4 34""
First edition in the scarce offprint issue. In this short paper they investigated cosmic rays, and it was published a year before their famous paper on the Artificial Production of Radioactive Elements.""Iréne Joliot-Curie’s fame stems principally from the discoveries she made with her husband, Frédéric Joliot, particularly that of artificial radioactivity, for which they shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1935. Yet her own investigations on the radioelements produced by the irradiation of uranium with neutrons were sufficiently important to secure her a position among the great modern scientists.""(DSB).
"CURIE, IRÈNE & F. JOLIOT (AND P. SAVEL). - ""THE NEUTRON IDENTIFIED""
Reference : 49447
(1932)
Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1932-33. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 194 and tome 197. - Tome 194: Nos 3,8,10,15 a. 25. - Tome 197: No 3. (6 entire issues offered). With titlepages to both volumes. The papers: pp. 273-275, 708-711, 876-877 a. 1 plate, 1229-1232, 2208-2211 a. 237-38 (tome 197). The issue no 25: pp. 2181-2248 lacks the first leaf, no affecting the paper. Titlepages with a faint stamp.
First printing of these papers of seminal importance to the evolution of particle physics - the results of these investigations immediately lead the way to the discovery of the neutron.They found that the 'Beryllium radiation', discovered by Bothe and Becker, ejected protons from a paraffin target. This discovery was amazing because photons have no mass. However, the Joliot-Curies interpreted the results as the action of photons on the hydrogen atoms in paraffin. They used the analogy of the Compton Effect, in which photons impinging on a metal surface eject electrons. The trouble was that the electron was 1,836 times lighter than the proton and, therefore, recoiled much more easily than the heavier proton after a collision with a gamma photon. When James Chadwick reported to Lord Rutherford on the Joliot-Curies’ results, Lord Rutherford exclaimed, ""I do not believe it!"" Chadwick immediately repeated the experiments at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England. He not only bombarded the hydrogen atoms in paraffin with the beryllium emissions, but also used helium, nitrogen, and other elements as targets. By comparing the energies of recoiling charged particles from different targets, he proved that the beryllium emissions contained a neutral component with a mass approximately equal to that of the proton. He called it the neutron.
P., Hermann, 1934, un volume in 8 broché, couverture imprimée 27pp., figures dans le texte
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Paris, G. Masson, 1889. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Light wear along edges. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 6ieme Series - Tome 17. 512 pp. (Entire volume offered).
Firs printing of Jacques Curie's (the brother of Pierre Curie) doctorial dissertation dealing with the phenomena of Piezoelectricity in crystals which the two brothers had discovered in 1880. Crystals with piezoelectric properties form an essential portion of sound-electronics devices such as microphones and record-players.
HERMANT CLAUDE. NON DATE. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos frotté, Intérieur frais. 2 TOMES: 192 pages + paginé de 193 à 522 + III - nombreux schemas en noir et blanc dans le texte - texte dactylographié - 1 adhesif argenté collé sur chaque coiffe sur le tome 2.. . . . Classification Dewey : 530-Physique
TOME I. trigonometrie, derivée d'une fonction d'une variable, notions de mecanique physique, etude de quelques mouvements, les forces, la masse... - TOME II. electricité, charges electriques, champ electrique, influence electrique, potentiel electrique, electrometrie.... Classification Dewey : 530-Physique
HERMANT CLAUDE. NON DATE. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 192 pages - nombreux schemas en noir et blanc dans le texte - texte dactylographié.. . . . Classification Dewey : 530-Physique
TOME I. trigonometrie, derivée d'une fonction d'une variable, notions de mecanique physique, etude de quelques mouvements, les forces, la masse... Classification Dewey : 530-Physique
P., Chron, circa 1930 un volume in 8, broché, couverture imprimée, (petite déchirure sans manque de papier dans la marge inférieure à deux feuillets), (2), 24pp., 2 tableaux, (1)
---- EDITION ORIGINALE de cet exposé par Marie CURIE de la découverte des radio-éléments, des propriétés des rayons et des transformations radio-actives -- BON EXEMPLAIRE**8267/M1
Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1910. 2 volumes in 8°, brochés. [2 ff.], XIII, 426 pp. ; [2 ff.], 548 pp. ; portrait de Pierre Curie en frontispice tiré en héliogravure et 7 planches. Remise en vente de l’édition originale avec de nouvelles couvertures : 1936 pour le volume 2, et 1939 pour le premier volume.
« Cet ouvrage représente l'ensemble des leçons qui ont constitué pendant ces dernières années le cours de Radioactivité professé à la Sorbonne. La rédaction de ces leçons a été complétée par quelques développements qui n'avaient pu trouver place dans l'enseignement... Dans ce livre l'exposé des phénomènes de la radioactivité proprement dits a été précédé par un exposé de la théorie des ions gazeux et par un résumé des connaissances les plus importantes sur les rayons cathodiques, les rayons positifs, les rayons Röntgen et les propriétés des particules électrisées en mouvement. Un chapitre a ensuite été consacré à la description des méthodes de mesures. Après la description détaillée de la découverte et de la préparation des substances radioactives, vient l'étude des émanations radioactives et de la radioactivité induite et des radiations émises par les corps radioactifs. Les substances radioactives sont ensuite classées par familles, avec l'étude, pour chacune d'elles de l'ensemble des propriétés et de la nature des transformations radioactives. » (Préface de Marie Curie). Bel exemplaire.
P., NRF, Gallimard, 1949, in 8° relié demi-percaline rouge à coins, amateur, plat supérieur de couverture conservé, 349 pages.
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Paris, Gallimard, 1938, in-8°, portrait photgr. de Mme Curie + 315 p., reliure en toile, avec la jaquette ill..
Première édition. Ex. num. nr. 3002 (sur 3390 ex.).
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1947 Paris, Alsatia, 1947, in 8 broché, 156 pages ; très nombreuses illustrations hors-texte.
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"CURIE, (MARIE) SKLODOWSKA. - RADIATION IS AN ATOMIC PROPERTY - COINING THE TERM 'RADIOACTIVITY'
Reference : 49598
(1898)
Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1898. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 126, No 15). Entire issue offered. With htitle and titlepage to vol. 126. Pp. 1059-1110. Curie's paper: pp. 1101-1103. Clean and fine. A punched stamp in lower margin of title-page.
First printing of this milestone paper, being the first ""Note"" from Marie Curie about ""radioactivity"". This same ""Note"" contains a the fundamental observation: ""Two uranium ores... are much more active than uranium itself. This fact... leads one to believe that these ores may contain an element much more active than uranium."" This paper gives the first proof of the fact that radiation is an atomic property.""Henri Becquerel, discovered (1896) that uranium salts shielded from light for several months spontaneously emit rays related in their effects to Roentgen rays. Mme. Curie became enthusiastic about this subject filled with the unknown and, as she later acknowledged, involving no bibliographic research.The first step in the research was to determine whether there existed other elements capable, like uranium, of emitting radiation. Abandoning the idea of hyperfluorescence, couldn’t one calculate by electrical measurement the effects on the conductivity of air that were revealed by the gold-leaf electroscope? Pierre Curie and his brother Jacques had constructed an extremely sensitive apparatus to measure weak currents"" Mme. Curie employed it in testing both pure substances and various ores. In her first ""Note"" in the Comptes rendus""de l Académie des sciences (12 April 1898) she described the method that she followed throughout her life, the method that enabled her to make comparisons through time and crosschecks with other techniques:""I employed... a plate condenser, one of the plates being covered with a uniform layer of uranium or of another finely pulverized substance [(diameter of the plates, eight centimeters"" distance between them, three centimeters). A potential difference of 100 volts was established between the plates.]. The current that traversed the condenser was measured in absolute value by means of an electrometer and a piezoelectric quartz. In general she preferred the zero method, in which the operator compensates for the current created by the active material by manipulating the quartz. All of her students followed this procedure.""(DSB).The first results came in 1898: the measurements varied between 83 × 10-12 amperes for pitch blende to less than 0.3 × 10-12 for almost inactive salts, passing through 53 × 10-12 for thorium oxide and for chalcolite (double phosphate of uranium and copper). Thorium would thus be ""radioactive"" (the term is Mme. Curie’s" its radioactive properties were discovered at the same time, independently, by Schmidt in Germany.
P., PUF, 1923, un volume in 8, broché, couverture imprimée (défraîchie, traces de poussière en bordure du premier plat de couverture), (2), 48pp., (2)
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Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1904. 8vo. Recent boards. Gilt lettering on spine. (4),132 pp., 14 textfigs. Clean and fine. (Die Wissenschaft. Sammlung naturwissenschaftlicher und mathematischer Monographien. Erstes Heft).
First German edition of Madame Curie's famous ""Recherches sur les substances radio-actives"",1903.(PMM, 394 - Dibner: 164 - Horblit: 19).
Leipzig, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft M.B.H., 1912, gr. in-8vo, 584 S., mit 1 Porträt, 7 Tafeln und 200 Figuren im Text, Stempel auf Stempel auf Titelbuch. Hlwd. (Bibl.).
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Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1899. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 129, No 19, 20 a. 21). Pp. (687-) 853. (3 entire issues offered). The papers: pp. 714-716, 716-717, 760-762 a. 823-825. All three issues clean and fine.
First apperance of 4 importent papers on the newly discovered phenomena of radioactivity.
"CURIE, P. (PIERRE) et A. DEBIERNE. - MEASURING ABSOLUTE TIME FOR THE FIRST TIME
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(1901)
(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1901. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 133, No 5 and No 23. Pp. (969-) 1044 and pp. (909-) 966. The papers: pp. 276-279 + pp. 931-934 (both from vol. 133, and entire issues offered) + Tome 135, No 20. Pp. (821-) 880. (Entire issue offered). The paper: pp. 857-59. + Tome 136, No 4. Pp. (181-) 262. (Entire issue offered). The paper: pp. 223-226.
First printing of these four papers, constituting a revolution in time measuring, as Pierre Curie here defined a STANDARD FOR THE ABSOLUTE MEASURING OF TIME ON THE BASIS OF RADIOACTIVITY, and hereby departing from the relative measurements in geology and archaeology.After the discovery of Polonium and Actinium (1898 a. 1899 ) further discoveries followed. ""First came the announcement in 1899 by Marie Curie of induced radioactivity, brought about by the action of polonium or radium on inactive substances. The induced radioactivity persisted over a considerable period of time, a phenomenon of great concern to Pierre Curie. He took up the question with Debierne, with whom he published two papers in 1901(the first two papers offered)"" their experiments could be explained by Rutherford’s theory of emanation (radon), a radioactive gas emitted by radium. With J. Danne, Curie measured the diffusion coefficient of radium emanation in the air and proved, as Rutherford had done, that it liquefies at - 150°C. In order to clarify the nature of the emanation he studied the law of diminution of the activity of a solid after having removed it from a chamber in which a radium salt was present. In two notes presented to the Academy on 17 November 1902 and 26 January 1903 (the third and fourth papers offered), Curie showed that this activity diminishes according to an exponential law characterized by a time constant that, for the emanation, is equal to 5,752 days, regardless of the conditions of the experiment. The importance of this discovery, which marks the point of departure for all modern measurements of archaeological and geological dating, did not escape his, for at a meeting of the Société Française de Physidque in 1902 he defined a standard for the absolute measurement of time on the basis of radioactivity. Almost immediately Rutherford and Soddy showed that the exponential diminution was caused by the transmutation of radioactive elements."" (DSB. Pierre Curie).
"CURIE, P. (PIERRE) et Mme S. CURIE. - RADIOACTIVITY IS AN INTRINSIC ATOMIC PROPERTY.
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(1902)
Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1902. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", tome 134, No 2. Pp. (69-) 132. With titlepage to volume 134. (Entire issue offered). The Curie's paper: pp. 85-87. A stamp to titlepage. Sewing loosening.
First appearance of an importent paper on the radioactive elements, in which Pierre and Marie Curie were the first to show, that the radioactive emissions from uranium and thorium was an INTRINSIC PROPERTY OF THEIR ATOMS.
[Université de Bordeaux I] - CUVILLIER, Hélène ; SERVANT, R. (Président)
Reference : 51939
(1978)
1 vol. in-4 br. polycopié, Université de Bordeaux I, 1978, 91 pp.
Très bon état pour cette thèse de docteur en physique.
Toulouse (Collection "Sup Aero"), Cepadues Editions, 1976, in 8° broché, VII-224 pages.
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