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1977S4415Offprint from:: Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences Series II Vol. 38 November 4 1977. 1977. 229 x 153 mm. 4to. i 116-136 pp. References. Printed wrappers. Fine. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, Series II, Vol. 38, November 4, 1977. unknown books
1954S4354Offprint from:: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 40 No. 9 September 1954. 1954. 258 x 176 mm. 8vo. 836-841 pp. With ink ms. corrections at page 840. Printed wrappers. Very good. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 40, No. 9, September 1954. unknown books
1980S4419Offprint from:: Physik und Didaktik 4 1980. 1980. 236 x 165 mm. 8vo. 300-324 pp. References. Printed wrappers. Fine. German-language edition of Pais' "Radioactivity's two early puzzles" originally published in Reviews of Modern Physics Vol. 49 No. 4 1977. Physik und Didaktik, 4, 1980. unknown books
1954S4353Offprint from:: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 40 No. 6 June 1954. 1954. 259 x 177 mm. 8vo. 484-492 pp. Printed wrappers. Very good. Based on work by Murray Gell-Mann Abraham Pais proposed in this paper on new particles a new quantum number. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 40, No. 6, June 1954. unknown books
199492439NY:: Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 0198539940 . First edition. About fine in like dust jacket. . Oxford University Press, hardcover books
19951310223Portugal: Museu Nacional de Etnologia National Museum of Ethnology 1995. Softcover. Softcover Small Imperial Octavo; VG; Covers show minimal shelf ware minor rubbing on corners; Text block lightly age toned text and photographs legible and clear; pp 119. 1310223. FP New Rockville Stock. Museu Nacional de Etnologia (National Museum of Ethnology) unknown books
1955S4356Offprint from:: The Physical Review Vol. 97 No. 5 March 1 1955. 1955. 280 x 217 mm. 4to. 12 ff. Mimeographed form. Self-wraps. Fine. In this paper Gell-Mann and Pais report on their work on Neutral K-Particles which was astonishing to those who first heard their results: the K0 and K0 produced in strong production processes are particle mixtures a type of prediction never before encountered in physics!" "In 1956 a year and a half after we had submitted our paper a Columbia University group of experimentalists published a letter reporting that the 'rather startling properties of neutral K's . . . predicted by Gell-Mann-Pais . . . have been confirmed." Pais A tale of two continents pp. 337-339. The Physical Review, Vol. 97, No. 5, March 1, 1955. paperback books
1947S4343London:: Taylor and Francis 1947. 1947. 262 x 181 mm. Large 8vo. 177-180 pp. 3 tables. Self-wraps. Fine. "My first project in Copenhagen was a collaboration with Hulthen. It was a lengthy computational affair dealing with neutron-proton scattering. . . Our results were published in a paper that appeared in the Proceedings of the first international postwar physics conference." Pais A tale of two continents p. 157. Lamek Hulthen was "a Swede from Lund who was ten years older than I." Pais A tale of two continents p. 156. PAIS Taylor and Francis, 1947. paperback books
1967S5322Offprint from:: Physics Today Vol. 20 No. 10 October 1967. 1967. 285 x 210 mm. 4to. Pages 42-48. Entire offprint: 34-53 pp. Illus. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. This offprint from Physics Today contains a twenty-page "Memorial to Oppenheimer" with contributions by Robert Serber Victor F. Weisskopf Abraham Pais and Glenn T. Seaborg and includes an Oppenheimer bibliography. Physics Today, Vol. 20, No. 10, October 1967. unknown books
1967S5321Offprint from:: Physics Today Vol. 20 No. 10 October 1967. 1967. 285 x 210 mm. 4to. Pages 42-48. Entire offprint: 34-53 pp. Illus. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. This offprint from Physics Today contains a twenty-page "Memorial to Oppenheimer" with contributions by Robert Serber Victor F. Weisskopf Abraham Pais and Glenn T. Seaborg and includes an Oppenheimer bibliography. Physics Today, Vol. 20, No. 10, October 1967. unknown books
19861333123Oxford: Clarendon Press 1986. Hardcover. Octavo; G/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine black with white print; DJ has small tear at front top edge edgewear mild shelfwear price-clipped; Boards quarter bound with blue cloth to spine and blue paper to boards silver print slight wear to corners and spine caps light toning to top edge else clean and strong; Text block has inscription in ink on front flyleaf else clean and tight; xiv 666 pages. 1333123. FP New Rockville Stock. Clarendon Press hardcover books
1949S5328In: Quaestiones academicae hodiernae. Varias virorum doctorum exterarum praesertim gentium commentationes in honorem lustri sexagesimi septimi Universitatis Groninganae collegerunt studiosi Groningani. Groningen:: I. B. Wolters 1949. 1949. 242 x 175 mm. 8vo. Pages 45-49. Entire volume: 69 3 pp. Frontis. Printed wrappers; corners bumped small hole in rear cover penetrates last few leaves. Good. I. B. Wolters, 1949. unknown books
1955S4358Offprint from:: The Physical Review Vol. 100 No. 5 December 1 1955. 1955. 268 x 199 mm. 4to. 1487-1489 pp. 1 fig. Self-wraps. Very good. In 1955 Oreste Piccioni was a staff member at Brookhaven National Laboratory. This paper reports on a collaboration between Pais and Piccioni that dealt with "bizarre manifestations of the mixing of Ko and Ko" specifically the fate of a freshly created Ko-beam. Their result was "a regeneration of K1 . . . manifested by the reappearance of the decay K1 2p. This prediction which has become known as the Pais-Piccioni effect was verified a few years later. . . Feyman has called these predictions 'one of the greatest achievements of theoretical physics. It is not based on an elegant hocus-pocus . . . yet the predictions are just as important as say the prediction of the positron.' It is certainly the best physics I have done in my whole life." Pais A tale of two continents pp. 347-348. The Physical Review, Vol. 100, No. 5, December 1, 1955. paperback books
1952S4348Offprint from:: The Physical Review Vol. 87 No. 5 September 1 1952. 1952. 266 x 200 mm. 4to. 871-875 pp. 3 figs. Self-wraps. Fine. "The other paper deals with a problem in particle physics. It has played a crucial role in my later work since it was the first occasion on which I learned to handle invariance principles. . ." Pais A tale of two continents p. 253. "It was the first paper to introduce selection rules as a consequence of what has become known as G-parity. For more on G-parity see Pais Inward bound p. 489." Pais A tale of two continents p. 492 note 21. The Physical Review, Vol. 87, No. 5, September 1, 1952. paperback books
1953S4351Offprint from:: Progress of Theoretical Physics 10 No. 4 October 1953. 1953. 258 x 183 mm. 8vo. 457-469 pp. Printed wrappers. Very good. "In the summer of 1947 on board ship returning from Copenhagen to New York I had been pacing the deck reflecting on Powell's discovery of the muon and speculating about the possibility that just as the muon appeared to be a heavy brother of the electron there might well exist heavy partners of the proton and neutron - which had not yet been seen at that time. Now here was the ! That particle I was immediately convinced had to be related to the proton-neutron very much like the muon to the electron. These visions were a consequence of my work done in 1946-47 in Copenhagen in which each 'prewar particle' appeared as the lowest mass particle of a 'particle family'. . . I had been the co-creator of the word 'lepton' to denote a member of the electron-neutrino family. In 1953 I proposed to baptize the proton-neutron and its heavier brothers the was only the first of these to be discovered. . . with the collective name 'baryon' from the Greek ßa - heavy. That word like lepton is now in the Oxford English Dictionary where even the paper is quoted in which I first introduced the term." Pais A tale of two continents p. 268. Pais Inward bound p. 514. Progress of Theoretical Physics, 10, No. 4, October, 1953. unknown books
1946S4342Offprint from:: Physica XII No. 2-3 June 1946. 1946. 242 x 153 mm. 8vo. 81-96 pp. Self-wraps; paper browned else fine. A sequel to Pais' previous work in quantum field theory. "The purpose of mentioning all these publications is less to advertise them as important than to show that I had not sat still during the war years. In fact my years in hiding turned out to be quite profitable for my further career." Pais A tale of two continents p. 142. Physica, XII, No. 2-3, June, 1946. paperback books
1960S4370Offprint from:: Annals of Physics Vol. 9 No. 4 April 1960. 1960. 238 x 169 mm. 8vo. 548-602 pp. 3 figs. 4 tables bibliog. with errata laid in. Fine. In this paper on the theory of branching ratios Abraham Pais "produced tables that deal with up to eight pions. In December I submitted a long paper on this subject entitled 'The Many p-Meson Problem.' It still gives me pleasure to reread it." Pais. A tale of two continents p. 368. Annals of Physics, Vol. 9, No. 4, April 1960. unknown books
1997277040Princeton: Princeton University Press 1997. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Illustrated. xvi 511pp. 8vo black cloth d.w. Princeton: Princeton University Press 1997. A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Princeton University Press unknown books
1951S4347Offprint from:: The Physical Review Vol. 82 No. 6 June 15 1951. 1951. 268 x 200 mm. 4to. Page 840-851. 2 tables 2 figs. Self-wraps. Fine. "I conclude this recital of my early collaborators in Princeton with the most important on of all: Res Jost whom I had met earlier in Copenhagen. Our deep friendship . . . began in 1949 after he had arrived at the Institute for a stay that would last until 1955. During that period we published two joint papers which I DO NOT HESITATE TO CALL FUNDAMENTAL. In the first of these dealing with the quantum theory of scattering processes we elaborated a method first proposed by Max Born in 1946. Having concluded the work we searched the literature for earlier contributions to our main result. We did not find anything until we came to Born's original paper where our problem was raised - but answered incorrectly." Pais A tale of two continents p. 253. The Physical Review, Vol. 82, No. 6, June 15, 1951. paperback books
1994040924Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York Oxford University Press 1994. xvi 282p. b/w illus. dj. Clarendon Press; New York, Oxford University Press unknown books
19919027964Oxford: Clarendon 1991. 1st . Hardcover. Fine. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. <br/><br/> Clarendon hardcover books
2006UYIGI-3Oxford etc.:: Oxford University Press 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Printing. With Supplemental Material by Robert P. Crease. 8vo. xxii 353 pp. Black-and-white plates index; text clean unmarked. Quarter cloth gilt-titled spine dust-jacket; binding square and tight the jacket has very minor shelf wear and creasing otherwise appears to be a beautiful unread copy. Very Good plus. This book is the most comprehensive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer available told with compassion and insight by Oppenheimer's colleague and friend Abraham Pais. Oxford University Press, hardcover books
2006S8098Oxford:: Oxford University Press 2006. 2006. 8vo. xxii 353 pp. Plates index. Quarter cloth boards dust-jacket. NEW. FIRST EDITION. Pais offers an illuminating portrait of another eminent colleague J. Robert Oppenheimer one of the most charismatic and enigmatic figures of modern physics. It is Abraham Pais's final work completed after his death by Robert P. Crease an acclaimed historian of science in his own right. ISBN13: 9780195166736 Oxford University Press, 2006. hardcover books
2006S7789Oxford:: Oxford University Press 2006. 2006. 8vo. xxii 353 pp. Plates index. Quarter cloth boards dust-jacket. NEW. FIRST EDITION. Pais offers an illuminating portrait of another eminent colleague J. Robert Oppenheimer one of the most charismatic and enigmatic figures of modern physics. It is Abraham Pais's final work completed after his death by Robert P. Crease an acclaimed historian of science in his own right. ISBN: 9780195166736 Oxford University Press, 2006. hardcover books
2006S8373Oxford:: Oxford University Press 2006. 2006. 8vo. xxii 353 pp. Photos index. Boards dust-jacket. NEW. FIRST EDITION. Illuminating biography of the charismatic physicist who worked on the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos. This work reevaluates the events of Oppenheimer's life. ISBN: 0195166736. Oxford University Press, 2006. hardcover books
