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Massachusetts: Cell Press, 2007. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of Takahashi and Yamanaka's 2007 Nobel Prize winning paper in which the authors described a pioneering technique for reprogramming adult human cells into a pluripotent state, meaning they could transform mature, specialized cells back into a state where they could potentially develop into any type of cell in the body. The key innovation of their work was the identification of a set of transcription factors capable of inducing pluripotency in somatic cells. Specifically, they found that by introducing four transcription factors (Oct4, Sox2, Klf4, and c-Myc) into adult human fibroblast cells, they could reprogram these cells into what they termed "induced pluripotent stem cells" (iPSCs). These iPSCs exhibited characteristics similar to embryonic stem cells, including the ability to differentiate into various cell types. This discovery represented a significant advancement in the field of regenerative medicine, as it… Read More

FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST DISCOVERY OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES IN THE BINARY PULSAR - the gravitational waves Einstein predicted in his 1916 theory of general relativity. This is the first proof that "radiation leaves the system of a binary pulsar at exactly the speed of light and as gravitational waves" (Spotts, Einstein Verified, CSM, 11 Feb, 2016). While the discovery was considered indirect, it is also regarded as "the first proof [of] the existence of gravitational waves" or, put another way, the first proof that "radiation leaves the system of a binary pulsar at exactly the speed of light and as gravitational waves" (van Haasteren, Gravitational Wave Detection, 8; Spotts, Einstein Verified, CSM, 11 Feb, 2016). The Nobel Prize in Physics 1993 was awarded jointly to Russell A. Hulse and Joseph H. Taylor Jr. "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation" (Nobel Prize Committee). "Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime… Read More

Washington DC: American Economic Association, 2003. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF A 2003 PAPER BY THE 2017 NOBEL PRIZE WINNER IN ECONOMICS, RICHARD THALER; THE PAPER PRESENTS THE FIRST USE OF THE TERM ‘LIBERAL PATERNALISM', "the idea that it is both possible and legitimate for private and public institutions to affect behavior while also respecting freedom of choice, as well as the implementation of that idea" (Wikipedia; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). The term was coined in this paper by behavioral economist Richard Thaler and legal scholar Case Sunstein. "Richard Thaler has a long body of work contributing to our understanding of Economics and business and consumer decision making" and this paper is noted in the Nobel Committee's ‘advanced information' (Nobel Prize Committee). Note that we offer two more Thaler papers separately, "Deal or No Deal? Decision Making under Risk in a Large-Payoff Game Show" in The American Economic Review 98 No. 1 pp. 38-71, March 2008 and… Read More

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF A 2004 PAPER USING BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS TO INCREASE EMPLOYEE SAVING WRITTEN BY THE 2017 NOBEL PRIZE WINNER IN ECONOMICS, RICHARD THALER. The plan the author's put forth, ‘Save More Tomorrow', has been implemented worldwide. "Thaler has a long body of work contributing to our understanding of Economics and business and consumer decision making" and this paper is noted in the Nobel Committee's ‘advanced information' (Nobel Prize Committee). Note that we offer two other Richard Thaler papers separately, "Deal or No Deal? Decision Making under Risk in a Large-Payoff Game Show" in The American Economic Review 98 No. 1 pp. 38-71, March 2008 and "Libertarian Paternalism" in The American Economic Review 93 No. 2 pp. 175-179, May 2003. Thaler's work, including that in this paper, has been devoted to integrating economics with psychology. Thaler "has incorporated psychologically realistic assumptions into… Read More

Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1984. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF AN EXTENSIVE REVIEW OF THE PROPERTIES OF LEPTONS, MESONS, AND BARYONS BY THE INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION OF PARTICLE PHYSICISTS. 305 pages in length, "are evaluated, listed, averaged, and summarized in tables. Numerous tables, figures, and formulae of interest to particle physicists are also included" (Abstract, April 1984). Note that the full table-of-contents has been scanned and is included with the photos. "The Particle Data Group (or PDG)... compiles and reanalyzes published results related to the properties of particles and fundamental interactions. It also publishes reviews of theoretical results that are phenomenologically relevant, including those in related fields such as cosmology" (Wikipedia). CONDITION & DETAILS: Original printed wraps. Lancaster: American Physical Society. Volume 56, No. 2., April 1984. (10.5 x 8 inches; 263 x 200mm). This is not an institutional copy, thus there are no… Read More

Washington DC: AAAS, 2004. 1st Edition. FIST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of a work of significance that employed aircraft and satellite measurements to show that the West Antarctica glacier thinning has accelerated since the 1990s. This work confirmed "that when the ocean eats at one end of a glacier, it can draw far distant ice toward the sea, with potentially dangerous consequences" (Kerr, Bit of Antarctica Slides to the Sea, Science Insider, September 23, 2004). "'It's a very impressive piece of work,'" says glaciologist Richard Alley of Pennsylvania State University, University Park. "Too many different lines of evidence are agreeing now" for them to be wrong about the thinning or the speedup of the past 10 to 15 years" (ibid). CONDITION & DETAILS: Washington DC: The American Association for the Advancement of Science. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers. The issue bears the address label of Gary L. Bennett. Bennett's work at the NASA, the DOE, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and at NERVA… Read More

FIRST EDITION EXTRACT (complete July issue) of Thomson and Rutherford's 1896 "epoch-making investigation on the ions produced in gases exposed to X-rays" (Science in the Making, Volume 2: 1850-1900, 312). Thomson and Rutherford's collaborative investigation "made important progress in understanding the conduction of electricity through gases by using X-rays to create charged species in various gases. The experiments confirmed Thomson's developing view that conduction in gaseous discharges occurred via charged portions of the molecules and served to show that the process was analogous to that occurring in dilute solutions of electrolytes" (ibid). Röntgen's 1895 discovery of X-rays stimulated global interest not only in the use of X-rays for medical purposes, but for inducing electrical conductivity in gases exposed to them. Thomson had already established that ‘Röntgenised' gases showed unexpected conductivity, thus "it was only natural that [Thomson] assisted this time by Rutherford, would… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1927. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THOMSON & REID'S NOBEL PRIZE WINNING PAPERS "for the experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals" (Nobel Prize Portal). The experiments conducted here "beautifully confirmed the [de Broglie's] wave theory" (Lindau Nobel Laureate Portal). Sir George Paget Thomson was born in 1892, the son of the physicist Sir J. J. Thomson. Paget Thomson studied at Cambridge's Trinity College, later working for a year studying atomic structure with his father; this was followed by work at Cavendish Laboratory until WWI. Following a post at Cambridge, Paget Thomson became Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. It is at Aberdeen that Paget Thomson began to carry out experiments revealing the phenomena of electron diffraction with thin metal foils and high-voltage electrons. In 1924, the de Broglie hypothesis argued that a wave must be associated with the motion of any material corpuscle. "Reasoning… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1927. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THOMSON & REID'S NOBEL PRIZE WINNING PAPERS "for the experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals" (Nobel Prize Portal). The experiments conducted here "beautifully confirmed the [de Broglie's] wave theory" (Lindau Nobel Laureate Portal). Sir George Paget Thomson was born in 1892, the son of the physicist Sir J. J. Thomson. Paget Thomson studied at Cambridge's Trinity College, later working for a year studying atomic structure with his father; this was followed by work at Cavendish Laboratory until WWI. Following a post at Cambridge, Paget Thomson became Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. It is at Aberdeen that Paget Thomson began to carry out experiments revealing the phenomena of electron diffraction with thin metal foils and high-voltage electrons. In 1924, the de Broglie hypothesis argued that a wave must be associated with the motion of any material corpuscle. "Reasoning… Read More

London: Harrison & Sons. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS (IN THREE VOLUMES) OF THE ONLY PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION (& ILLUSTRATIONS) BY WILLIAM THOMSON (Baron Kelvin) OF HIS HARMONIC ANALYZER, THE FIRST OPERATIONAL TIDE PREDICTOR. Six papers appear in three separate volumes. "Thomson's system [was] used regularly to collect tide information at a given location, analyze the amplitude and phase of a set of known frequencies to be found in the tide and then, based on the collected information to predict the tide at the point in future times...The machine was very successful and was adopted by many countries. The United States was using the Tide Predictor well into the 20th century" (Otnes, notes on Mechanical Fourier Analyzers, JOS, 34). Lord Kelvin noted "that four hours of crank turning would produce tidal predictions for one harbor for a full year" (ibid 37). Harmonic analysis, is a "mathematical procedure for describing and analyzing phenomena of a periodically recurrent nature. Many complex problems have… Read More

Washington DC: Spartan Books, 1965. 1st Edition. Designed by Seymour Cray and James E. Thornton, manufactured by Control Data Corporation 6600 (CDC 6600) was the world's first successful supercomputer. Thornton, the author of the first paper, was personally responsible for most of the detailed design of the Control Data model 6600 system and is considered the "hidden genius" of the 6600" (Wikipedia). "The 6600 had 400,000 transistors and more than 100 miles of wiring. In addition to a blazingly fast floating-point processor, it had 10" functional units and 10 ‘peripherals and control processors' that did housekeeping and input/output tasks at the same time" (CDC 6600's, Computer History; Jadhav, Advanced Computer Architecture and Computing, 9). CONDITION & DETAILS: Illustrated throughout with technical drawings. Previous owner's signature on front paste-down. Bound in blue cloth; silver lettered on spine and front board; tightly bound with slight rubbing at the edges. Bright and clean throughout.… Read More

Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1949. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF TIOMNO & WHEELER'S NOTABLE "SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF THE STRENGTHS OF THE THREE TYPES OF BETA DECAY AND [PROPOSAL] THAT A UNIVERSAL WEAK FORCE GOVERNED ALL THREE" (History of Physics: The Wenner Collection). Apart from Fermi's, this was the first hint of a theory of weak interaction. Jayme Tiomno (1920-2011) and John Archibald Wheeler's (1911-2008) paper "examined the relationship of the varied weak processes both with and without the mediation of the strong pion-nucleon interaction" (Marshak, Conceptual Foundations of Modern Particle Physics, 92). Tiomno and Wheeler here prove that "there exist other reactions in nature in addition to Beta decay that have the same coupling strength and similar characteristics and are merely two different manifestations of a general Fermi interaction" (Wheeler and Tiomno, 49). In 1896 Henri Becquerel discovered radioactive emissions; though not identified as such, this was the… Read More

2007. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PICTORIAL WRAPPERS OF A 2007 JOURNAL ISSUE WITH TWO INTERESTING ARTICLES: (1) In-depth article by Topper & Vincent on Einstein's 1934 presentation of the mathematical derivation of his famous E=MC2 equation. In doing their research, the authors discovered a previously unknown photograph showing Einstein, posed in front of a blackboard upon which he has written out the math that led him to his unification of mass and energy. Other than this photo, included with the article, there are no known surviving photos of the man and his equation. (2) Article by Wohl describing three brilliant investigations done by Luis Alvarez involving areas outside of particle physics, the field in which he was awarded the 1968 Nobel Prize. TOPPER & VINCENT PAPER: At a public lecture in 1934, 400 students attended a lecture by Einstein in which he presented his famous mass-energy equivalence equation: E=mc2. The authors discovered a photo, a halftone newspaper clipping of… Read More

Paris: Masson et Cie, 1910. 1st Edition. First edition, FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT OF ANTONIADI'S 1909 MAP OF MARS. In 1930, Eugène Michel Antoniadi (1870-1944), a Greek/French astronomer published a work also, as is the work offered here, entitled La Planète Mars based on research he had conducted in 1909. Antoniadi's volume contained what is considered the first accurate modern map of Mars. Antoniadi's map, however, had first appeared in print 20 years earlier in a 1910 volume of La Nature, Revue des Sciences et de leurs Applications à l'Art et à l'Industrie - this volume. Authored by Emile Touchet, secretary of the Societe Astronomique de France, the article is a thorough review of the history of research about Mars. The offering here is that 1910 volume of La Nature and, again, it houses the first appearance in print of Antoniadi's famous 1909 map of Mars. As did many in the scientific community in the early 1900s, Eugène Michel Antoniadi, a Greek/French astronomer, accepted Giovanni… Read More

Washington DC: AAAS, 2009. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of an important paper finding that in periods during the past 800,000 years when the concentration of carbon dioxide was similar to the current level the temperatures were 3-6 degrees centigrade warmer and sea level was 25 to 40 meters higher. "Tripati et al. (2009) had a goal ``to test the hypothesis that CO2 and climate were closely coupled across ... major transitions''. ... from a relatively ice-free world to one with glacial conditions on Antarctica characterized by substantial ice sheets. They concluded: "These results show that changes in pCO2 and climate have been coupled during major glacial transitions of the past 20myr,... supporting the hypothesis that greenhouse gas forcing was an important modulator of climate over this interval via direct and indirect effects" (Rapp, Assessing Climate Change, 32). CONDITION & DETAILS: Washington DC: The American Association for the Advancement of Science. 8vo. Original pictorial… Read More

2006. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF AN ARTICLE ON PLUTO BY THE ASTROPHYSICIST NEIL deGRASSE. On August 16, 1960 the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union the IAU voted to change Pluto's status as a planet to that of a dwarf. While the decision was and is contentious, "Tyson bucked traditional thinking in order to keep Pluto from being referred to as the ninth planet in exhibits at the center. Tyson has explained that he wanted to look at commonalities between objects, grouping the terrestrial planets together, the gas giants together, and Pluto with like objects and to ge away from simply counting the planets... In 2006 the International Astronomical Union confirmed [Tyson's] assessment by changing Pluto to the dwarf planet classification" (Wikipedia). Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. He is currently the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space and a research associate in the… Read More