Charles edouard

1896 · 1598 — Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils Imprimeurs-Libraires du Bureau des Longitudes de L’école Polytechnique 1896. In publisher’s printed wrappers. First two leaves remained unopened. With eight plates of photographic reproductions of X-ray images and twenty-three text illustrations. Plates seperated by tracing paper. Binding artistically restored. Small tear to the back cover. Otherwise in fine condition. In publisher’s printed wrappers. First two leaves remained unopened. With eight plates of photographic reproductions of X-ray images and twenty-three text illustrations. Plates seperated by tracing paper. VIII 144 p. and 8 plates. <p><br /> Scarce early work about Röntgen’s recent discovery the X-rays.<br /> <p><br /> <p><br /> The volume is an early review of Röntgen’s discovery of the X-rays written by Guillaume Charles Édouard. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 in recognition of the service he had rendered to precision measurements in physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys.<br /> <p><br /> <p><br /> Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen 1845–1923 was a German physicist who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelenght range in 1895 known as X-rays. This achievement earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.<br /> <p>. Gauthier-Villars et Fils, Imprimeurs-Libraires, du Bureau des Longitudes, de L’école Polytechnique unknown