LANDSBERG, Grigory and Leonid Mandelstam, "Eine neue Erscheinung bei der Lichtzerstreuung in Krystallen”, in the whole volume of Die Naturwissenschaften, vol 16, 1928, p. 557. AND offered with: Hans Geiger and Walther Müller, “Elektronenzählrohr zur Messung schwächster Aktivitäten” in the same vol 16, pp. 617–618. Volume 16 contains 1,201pp and is in a lovely half-leather binding with leather tips. Fine condition. $350
Russian physicists G. S. Landsberg (1890-1957) and L. I. Mandelstam (1879-1944) describe in this paper their discovery of the Raman effect—discovered virtually simultaneously by Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman (1888-1970), though the two did not share in the Nobel Prize awarded to Raman in 1930. (Why? “As for Landsberg and Mandelstam, they had published their results after Raman’s were in print. In addition, their paper cited previous works by Raman; although these corresponded to articles that had been published prior to Raman’s March 1928 Nature article detailing his discovery, these references perhaps confused the Nobel Committee and led them to believe that the Russians’ work did not represent an independent and simultaneous discovery. Moreover, Landsberg and Mandelstam did not at first publish their results of scattering at a shifted frequency; instead they gave an oral presentation at a conference in Moscow in April 1928 based on their measurements, which were taken in February of that year. By the time they submitted their results in May 1928 and published them in July, 16 papers had been published on the Raman effect, many by Raman and his colleagues. Still, many Austrian, German and Russian physicists felt strongly that credit should be shared. They refused to adopt the name “the Raman effect,” and referred instead to “combination scattering” or “the Smekal-Mandelstam-Raman scattering.” In 1931, K.W.F. Kohlrausch, an Austrian physicist, gave his book a title that recognized both Smekal and Raman: Der Smekal-Raman Effekt.”--Barry R. Masters, “C.V. Raman and the Raman Effect” in the Optical Society's “Optics and Photonics News” (March 2009).
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The second paper in this volume is the announcement of the invention of the Geiger-Muller counter, by it inventors. “The Geiger–Müller tube or G–M tube is the sensing element of the Geiger counter instrument used for the detection of ionizing radiation. It was named after Hans Geiger, who invented the principle in 1908,[1] and Walther Müller, who collaborated with Geiger in developing the technique further in 1928 to produce a practical tube that could detect a number of different radiation types.” --Wikipedia
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