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SAVART, FELIX - THE RATIONALIZED VIOLIN AND THE PHYSICS OF THE VIOLINBiblio.com

FEYNMAN, R P [INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON THEORETICAL PHYSICS].Biblio.com

Superfluidity and Superconductivity. - FEYNMAN'S ONLY PAPER ON SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

195750909Lancaster American Physical Society 1957. Lex8vo. In the original printed orange wrappers. In "Reviews of Modern Physics" Volume 29 April No. 2 1957. Entire issue offered. Lacking backtrip and stamp to front wrapper Langley Aeronautical Laboratory. Otherwise a fine a copy. Feynman Pp. 205-212. Entire issue: Pp. 159-254. First printing of the Reviews of Modern Physics issue entirely dedicated to the International Congress on Theoretical Physics held in Seattle Washington 1957. The congress turned out to be exceptionally important in the field of superconductivity and Feynman here presented his only paper on the subject even though he spend most of the 1950ies on precisely this. Feynman's work on the subject led directly to Bardeen's focus on the subject which eventually resulted on Bardenn Leon Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer published their famous BCS-theory paper in 1957:"John Bardeen already well-known for his work leading to the discovery of the transistor turned his full attention to superconductivity in 1951 having realized that the isotope effect identified the interaction between electrons that must be responsible for the phenomenon. The basic idea would be a Fermi-degenerate gas of nearly free electrons with a weakly attractive interaction by way of the lattice phonons. Solving that problem - for example finding the ground state of such a system - proved to be a difficult task. There was also the threat of powerful competition. Richard Feynman one of the masters of quantum electrodynamics could not help but notice the similarity between that problem and this one. By 1955 by then at the University of Illinois at Urbana Bardeen decided that reinforcements were needed. He called up C. N. Yang at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton to ask for a postdoc versed in the kind of field theory one uses in quantum electrodynamics. Yang recommended Leon Cooper. At about the same time one of Bardeen's graduate students J. Robert Schrieffer decided to work on superconductivity. The team was assembled. In the cramped quarters of the University of Illinois physics department Bardeen and Cooper had to share an office a hardship that did not prove to be an obstacle to progress. The team worked furiously in early 1957 driven in part by the feeling that Feynman was hot on the trail using powerful new techniques they knew little about. However it was not Feynman but Bardeen Cooper and Schrieffer who produced the microscopic theory" Goodstein Richard Feynman and the History of Superconductivity. unknown

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Fowler, R H / Ralph Howard [Ownership Signature Of Nicholas Renzetti]Biblio.com

Statistical Mechanics: The Theory Of The Properties Of Matter In Equilibrium Second Edition Revised And Enlarged.

1936058848New York: Macmillan 1936. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 864 Pp. Blue Cloth Spine Gilt First Printing Of The Revised Edition 1936 Date On Title Page No Additional Printing Indicated. A Standard Work For Many Years. A Touch Of Rubbing At Tips. Signature And Printed Bookplate Of Nicholas Renzetti Professor At Caltech. Per Wikipedia Sir Ralph Howard Fowler 1889 - 1944 Was An English Physicist. At Trinity College He Worked On Thermodynamics And Statistical Mechanics Bringing A New Approach To Physical Chemistry. With Arthur Milne A Comrade During The War He Wrote A Seminal Work On Stellar Spectra Temperatures And Pressures. In 1925 He Was Made A Fellow Of The Royal Society. He Became Research Supervisor To Paul Dirac And In 1926 Worked With Him On The Statistical Mechanics Of White Dwarf Stars. In 1927 He Was One Of The Participants Of The Fifth Solvay Conference On Physics That Took Place At The International Solvay Institute For Physics In Belgium. In 1928 He Published With Lothar Nordheim A Seminal Paper That Explained The Physical Phenomenon Now Known As Field Electron Emission And Helped To Establish The Validity Of Modern Electron Band Theory. In 1931 He Was The First To Formulate And Label The Zeroth Law Of Thermodynamics.5 In 1932 He Was Elected To The Chair Of Theoretical Physics At The Cavendish Laboratory. In 1933 He Worked With John Bernal To Develop A Model For The Structure Of Water And Ice Known As The Ice Rules. In 1921 He Married Eileen Mary 1901-1930 The Only Daughter Of Ernest Rutherford. They Had Four Children Two Daughters And Two Sons. Eileen Died After The Birth Of Their Last Child Ruth Fowler Edwards A Geneticist And Wife Of Robert G. Bob Edwards The "Father" Of In Vitro Fertilization And 2010 Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine Laureate. One Of His Grandchildren Is Mary Fowler A Geophysicist And The Sixth Master 2012-2020 Of Darwin College Cambridge. Macmillan hardcover

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Frank, PhilippBiblio.com

Between Physics and Philosophy

1941055998Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1941. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good DJ. 238 Pp.Red Cloth Gilt. First Printing 1941 Date On Title Page. A Near Fine Book. No Marks In Book. Dj Aged / Browned Price $2.75 Slight Soiling A Few Minute Losses At Edges. Per Wikipedia Philipp Frank 1884 -1966 Was An Austrian-American Physicist Mathematician And Philosopher Of The Early-To-Mid 20Th Century. He Was A Logical Positivist And A Member Of The Vienna Circle. He Was Influenced By Mach And Was One Of The Machists Criticised By Lenin In Materialism And Empirio-Criticism. He Studied Physics At The University Of Vienna And Graduated In 1907 With A Thesis In Theoretical Physics Under The Supervision Of Ludwig Boltzmann. He Joined The Faculty There In 1910. Albert Einstein Recommended Him As His Successor For A Professorship At The German Charles-Ferdinand University Of Prague A Position Which He Held From 1912 Until 1938. Doctoral Students Included Reinhold Furth And Peter Bergmann. In 1938 He Was Invited By Harvard University To America As A Visiting Lecturer On Quantum Theory And The Philosophy Of Modern Physics. The Germans Having Invaded Czechoslovakia As He Was About To Begin His Scheduled Lecture Tour Frank A Jew Never Returned To His Position At Prague. And Instead Became A Lecturer On Physics And Mathematics At Harvard From That Year Until His Retirement In 1954. In 1947 He Founded The Institute For The Unity Of Science As Part Of The American Academy Of Arts And Sciences Aaas. This Arose After Howard Mumford Jones Then President Of The Aaas Had Issued A Call To Overcome The Fractionalization Of Knowledge Which He Felt The Aaas Well Suited To Address. The Institute Held Regular Meetings Attracting A Broad Range Of Participants. Quine Regarded The Organisation As A "Vienna Circle In Exile". Politically Frank Was A Socialist. Astronomer Halton Arp Described Frank's Philosophy Of Science Class At Harvard As Being His Favorite Elective.His Younger Brother Josef Frank Was A Noted Architect And Designer. Harvard University Press hardcover

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Holland, Peter RBiblio.com

The Quantum Theory of Motion: An Account of the de Broglie-Bohm Causal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

1993046774Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Xix 598 Pp. Red Cloth Gilt. First Printing 1993 Issued Later In Paperback. Fine. Former Owner's Name With His Address As The Beckman Institute Caltech With A 1993 Caltech Bookmark. From Wikipedia In Feb 2021: Peter R. Holland Is An English Theoretical Physicist Known For His Work On Foundational Problems In Quantum Physics And In Particular His Book On The Pilot Wave Theory And The De Broglie-Bohm Causal Interpretation Of Quantum Mechanics The Book Offered Here. Holland Was Educated At Hazelwick Comprehensive School In Crawley West Sussex And At Imperial College. He Did His Ph.D. On Algebraic Topological Methods In Physics Under David Bohm At Birkbeck College. Holland Has Worked At The University Of London Universite Pierre Et Marie Curie Paris Bristol Uwe And The University Of Oxford. He Is An Editor Of Physics Letters A. In 1993 Holland Published His Book "The Quantum Theory Of Motion'' In Which He Presented A Comprehensive Account Of The Causal Interpretation Of Quantum Mechanics Initiated By Louis De Broglie And In A More Complete Form By David Bohm. Drawing Upon Numerical Trajectory-Based Methods For Solving The Schrödinger Equation And Upon Methods Of Hydrodynamics Holland Showed In 2004 How The Time Evolution Of The Wavefunction Could Be Derived Exactly From The Dynamical Evolution Of A Congruence Of Spacetime Trajectories. The Method Achieves The Same Result As Richard Feynman's Path Integral Formulation The Mapping Of The Initial Wavefunction Through Time But Instead Of Using Feynman's 'All Possible Paths' Between Two Points It Employs At Most One Path. This Is A Considerable Conceptual Advantage In Understanding Quantum Motion And Is Potentially A Computational Benefit Too. Another Difference With Feynman Is That While The Trajectories Do The Job Of Evolving The Quantum System In Time The Initial Wavefunction Is Integral To The Trajectory Dynamical Equations As It Provides The Initial Density And The Initial Velocity. Using Riemannian Geometry Holland Formulated This Method In Very General Terms That Includes As Special Cases Quantum Many-Particle Systems And Spin. He Has Applied It To Other Field Theories Such As Electromagnetism And Second-Order Wave Equations. Holland Has Published Many Peer-Reviewed Articles On The Foundations Of Physics Including The Quantum Potential Quantum Hydrodynamics Quantum Field Theory Symmetries Hidden-Variables Theories Quantum Back-Reaction Quantum Hamilton-Jacobi Theory Classical-Like Quantum Systems And The History Of Physics. Cambridge University Press hardcover

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