‎Weart (Spencer R.) and Phillips (Melba), eds. - American Institute of Physics ‎
‎History of Physics - Readings from Physics Today Published by the American Institute of Physics - Number 2‎

‎American Institute of Physics (AIP), New York Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1985 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's brown and black printed wrappers, illustrated by several portrait of physicists In-4 1 vol. - 391 pages‎

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‎several black and white text-figures and illustrations 1st edition, 1985 (paperback) Contents, Chapitres : Introduction, Contents, Author's affiliation, xvi, Text, 375 pages - Introduction - 1. Before our times : The prehistory of solid-state physics - Franklin's physics - A sketch for the history of early thermodynamics - A sketch for a history of kinetic theory of gases - Rowland's physics - Michelson and his interferometer - Poincaré and cosmic evolution - Steps towards the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram - 2. Institutions of Physics : The roots of solid-state research at Bell Labs - Some personal experiences in the international coordination of crystal diffractometry - The founding of the American Institute of Physics - The first 50 years of the AAPT - The giant cancer tube and the Kellogg Radiation Laboratory - The evolution of the Office of Naval Research - 3. Social Context : Nagaoka to Rutherford, 22 february 1911 - American physics and the origins of electrical engineering - Physics in the Great Depression - Scientists with a secret - Some thoughts on science in the Federal government - Women in physics : Unnecessary, injurious and out of place ? - The last 50 years, a revolution ? - 4. Biography : The two Ernest (Rutherford and Lawrence) - Van Vleck and magnetism - Alfred Lee Loomis - Harold Urey and the discovery of deuterium - Pyotr Kapitza - The young Oppenheimer, letters and recollections - Maria Goeppert Mayer - Philip Morrison - 5. Personal account : Albert Einstein : How i create the theory of relativity - It might as well be the spin - History of the Cyclotron - The discovery of the fission - Enrico Fermi : Physics at Columbia University - 6. Particles and Quanta : J.J. Thomson and the discovery of the electron - Thermodynamics and quanta in Planck's work - J.J. Thomson and the Bohr atom - 60 years of quantum physics - Heisenberg and the early days of quantum mechanics - Electron diffraction, 50 years ago - 1932, moving into the new physics - The idea of the neutrino - The birth of elementary-particle physics - The discovery of electron tunneling into supraconductors - The development of field theory in the last 50 years minor folding tracks on the corners wrappers which remains clean, inside is near fine, no markings, the last top corners of pages lightly folded, it remains a very good copy of this very interesting item, profusingly illustrated, it seems to be volume 2 only, complete in itself‎