2006, ISBN: 3c4e4b81e12891dcb86cc670d9f3a8b4

London: Macmillan, 1938. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF SIX SIGNIFICANT PAPERS IN THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS IN NATURE VOLUME 141, 1938. Kapitsa, Allen, and Misener present the experimental c… More...

London: Macmillan, 1938. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF SIX SIGNIFICANT PAPERS IN THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS IN NATURE VOLUME 141, 1938. Kapitsa, Allen, and Misener present the experimental contributions to the problem of superfluidity as well as the announcement of the theory itself. It has always been contentious that while all three scientists clearly discovered superfluidity, only Kapitsa received the Nobel Prize. "Superfluidity is the remarkable manifestation of quantum mechanics at the macroscopic level" (Balibar, Discovery of Superfluidity, 1). Kapitsa believed that helium-II had something in common with superconductors, and in [the paper offered] wrote the now famous sentence "by analogy with superconductors...the helium below the lambda point enters a special state which might be called superfluid" (Kapitsa, 1938). His intuition still stuns physicists because superfluids and superconductors are indeed analogous states of matter. ALLEN & MISENER'S PAPER: At the same time, Allen and Misener were working on helium and as a result of their experiments, presented a series of measurements in which they concluded: "The observed type of flow... in which the velocity becomes almost independent of pressure, most certainly cannot be treated as laminaror even as ordinary turbulent flow. Consequently, any known formula cannot, from our data, give a value of viscosity which would have much meaning (A & M, 1938). This paper appeared back to back with Kapitsa's in Nature. "It is now understood that helium-II can be described as a two-fluid mixture - part a normal fluid and part a superfluid, in which atoms have condensed into a single quantum state. This two fluid model explains Kapitsa's and Allen and Misener results" (APS Physics, Discovery of Superfluidity). TISZA'S PAPER proposed a "two fluid theory of superfluidity in which one fluid is viscous and carries entropy, and the other has zero viscosity and zero entropy. His proposal explained how liquid helium could flow through a slit without resistance and also exhibit the fountain effect" (History of Physics: Wenner Collection). THE KEMMER & BHABHA PAPERS posit the existence of a neutral pion (later to be the first unstable particle to be discovered using an accelerator and are published consecutively in this volume. ASTBURY & BELL'S PAPER is a X-ray study on DNA which famously describes the nucleotides as a Pile of Pennies'. "James Watson credited the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA in 1953 to an X-ray diffraction photograph taken by Rosalind Franklin. Historians of molecular biology have long puzzled over a remarkably similar photograph taken two years earlier by the physicist and pioneer of protein structure William T. Astbury. They have suggested that Astbury's failure to capitalize on the photograph to solve DNA's structure was due either to his being too much of a physicist, with too little interest in or knowledge of biology, or to his being misled by an erroneous theoretical model of the gene" (Hall, "William Astbury", Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 42, 2011, 119). LEV LANDAU'S PAPER "Origin of Stellar Energy" concludes "When the mass of the body is greater than the critical mass, then in the formation of the neutronic' phase an enormous amount of energy is liberated and we see that the conception of a neutronic' state of matter gives an immediate answer to the question of the sources of stellar energy" (Landau, 334). He further argues "that the transformation to a neutronic state of only 2% of the sun's mass would be enough to account for the solar energy during a period of two billion years" (Kragh, Cosmology and Controversy, 92). CONDITION & DETAILS: London: Macmillan. Complete. 4to. (262 x 187mm). [xlxiv], 1156, [4]. Ex-libris with a darkened area at the spine where a label has been removed; pictorial bookplate on front pastedown; two small stamps on title page. Bound in green cloth that is solid, tight, and clean. Bright and very clean throughout., Macmillan, 1938, 0, Dorchester, Dorset: Veloce Publishing, 2006 First reprint, April 2006. HB. Black cloth with silver titles and pictorial dustjacket. 192pp. With over 230 colour and b&w photos throughout. Includes 901 prototypes and 911 production models, including the 912 up to 1971. Fine in Fine jacket, now in clear sleeve., Dorchester, Dorset: Veloce Publishing, 2006, 0<

2006, ISBN: 3c4e4b81e12891dcb86cc670d9f3a8b4

Dorchester, Dorset: Veloce Publishing, 2006 First reprint, April 2006. HB. Black cloth with silver titles and pictorial dustjacket. 192pp. With over 230 colour and b&w photos througho… More...

Dorchester, Dorset: Veloce Publishing, 2006 First reprint, April 2006. HB. Black cloth with silver titles and pictorial dustjacket. 192pp. With over 230 colour and b&w photos throughout. Includes 901 prototypes and 911 production models, including the 912 up to 1971. Fine in Fine jacket, now in clear sleeve., Dorchester, Dorset: Veloce Publishing, 2006, 0<