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Shockley, William
The Quantum Physics of Solids I
New York: Bell Telephone Laboratories 1939. Stapled Wraps. First Separate Edition. Bell Telephone System Technical Publications, Mathematical Physics Monograph B-1184. Originally printed in The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. XVIII, October 1939, pp. 645-723, this is the first separate edition, first state (yes there were later issues of this edition). 79 pages, 35 figs. Original blue printed paper wrappers, 3 hole punched at spine as issued. Minor soiling to wrappers and browning to the edges. Previous owners name (W. A. Andrews) inked on cover (and occasional pencilled notes internally). Shockley won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956 with Bardeen and Brattain "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect." The current item is the first in a proposed series of three papers dealing with the quantum physics of solids. Good. [Book #12993] |
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