Ralph Alpher, “A Neutron-Capture Theory of the Formation and Relative Abundance of the Elements”, in Physical Review 74 No. 11 pp. 1577–1589, December 1, 1948.Original wrappers; old fold in the corner-right-bottom of the front cover, a near-fine copy. $250
This is Alpher’s doctoral dissertation touching on some of the thinking for the great αβγ Alpher/ Bethe/ Gamow paper, “The Origin of the Chemical Elements”, (Physical Review 73 (1948), 803, also available from this store] in which Alpher and Gamow suggested that the light elements were created by hydrogen ions capturing neutrons in the hot, dense early universe.”--Wikipedia (“Big Bang Nucleosynthesis”)
“From 1944 through 1955, he was employed at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory… In 1948 he earned his Ph.D. in Physics with a theory of nucleosynthesis called neutron-capture, and from 1948 onward collaborated with Dr. Robert C. Herman (Ph.D. in Physics, 1940, Princeton University, under E. Condon), also at APL, on predictions of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation.”—Wikipedia (“Ralph Alpher”)
- The copy of Sheila C. Power [Tinney], with her name (signed?) at top right front cover.
From the Royal Irish Academy: “Erwin Schrödinger described [Power] as among the 'best equipped and most successful of the younger generation of theoretical physicists in this country',”
(“Power”)…went to the University of Edinburgh to work on a doctorate [under Max Born]…and worked with him on the stability of crystal lattices, and was awarded a Ph.D. by Edinburgh in 1941. She is believed to be the first Irish woman to receive a doctorate in the mathematical sciences….In 1941 she was appointed to an assistant lectureship in UCD, at the age of 23, and also held a part-time fellowship in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS). A year later, she was the only woman attending an international colloquium in the institute, at which the Nobel prize winner Paul Dirac lectured on quantum electrodynamics. From September 1948 to June 1949 she took leave of absence to go on a fellowship to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where she worked on aspects of nuclear physics…”--https://www.ria.ie/news/dictionary-irish-biography-public-engagement-stem-education/100th-anniversary-birth-sheila
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