George Gamow, Ralph Alpher, Hans Bethe, "The Origin of the Chemical Elements." American Physical Society, 1948. Physical Review vol 73, April 1, 1948 Original printed wrappers. Very fine condition. We offer the original issue of 1 April 1948, with its excellent original wrappers, bound in a volume containing volume 73, April-June 1948 (pp 653-1514), all with their original wrappers bound in.
The Big Bang: the great Alpher/Bethe/Gamow paper and all-time insider-bad-joke, coming in the 1 April 1948 issue of the Physical Review. The letter to the editor which announced Gamow's (et alia) theory on background radiation and the formulation of the "Big Bang". This is one of the great discoveries of the century--it didn't have the implications of the (troublesome and tiresome) James Watson's DNA "discovery", but it certainly had other enormous intellectual and philosophical (and scientific of course) ramifications. Alpher, Ralph; George Gamow [& Hans Bethe, for the fictionalized use of his name only, for the capital "Beta", and this ABC paper].
"The Origin of the Chemical Elements". In: Physical Review, 73, April-June, 1948, contained on Pp 803-804 [1948].. This is about as close to new as one could get, I think, for this paper. The red binding is cloth and also FINE. $1250
Also bound in this volume:
DIRAC, P.A.M. "Quantum Theory of Localizable Dynamic Systems", 73/9, 1 May 1948. .Fine condition. This is one of only eight (total) articles published by Dirac in an APS-sponsored publication.
DYSON, Freeman. "The Intersactions of Nucleons with Meson Fields", April 15, 1948, pp 929-930.
Also, other papers by Shockley, Bardeen, Townes, Aage Bohr, Chandraseckhar, Goldhaber, Foley, Nierenberg, Nier, N. Rosen, Schwinger, Wu, and many others.
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