Editore: Blackie & Son Limited, London & Glasgow, 1947
Da: Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA], Beloit, WI, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Later Edition. Once-standard text on electromagnetic theory, from the eighth German edition; this copy from the books of University of Wisconsin chemical engineering professor R. Byron Bird with his neat underling, marginal notes, and name rubberstamped in many places. Bird was co-author of the important text Transport Phenomena and a recipient of the National Medal of Science. Hardcover, as pictured. General wear, no jacket, ink marks & notes; xiv, 285 pages; index, many figures & equations. Size: Octavo.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good -. English Translation. RARE copy of this 1936 work on atomic physics, with special provenance of Maurice Edward Shank - who received his DSc from MIT in 1949, was on the MIT faculty from 1949-1962, and who joined Pratt & Whitney in 1960, eventually rising to VP of its China Division - with his name stamp on the front endpapers. The author won the Nobel Price in Physics in 1954 for his "fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the wave function". 352 pages, illustrated. Binding has minor wear, light marks/soils, some pencil notes within the text (most probably from Shank). Book.