Search Results: Titles starting with H from Atticus Rare Books

London: Macmillan, 1991. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF IIJIMA'S 1991 DISCOVERY OF CARBON NANOTUBES. Allotropes of carbon with a cylindrical nanostructure of unusual properties, Iijima's discovery has had a "tremendous impact" and "generated unprecedented interest in the carbon nanostructures", fueling "intense research in the area of nanotechnology" (Monthioux, CARBON 44, 2006, 4; Nature Physics Portal). In this paper, the Japanese physicist Sumio Iijima announces his "preparation of nanometre-size, needle-like tubes of carbon — now familiar as 'nanotubes'. Used in microelectronic circuitry and microscopy, and as a tool to test quantum mechanics and model biological systems, nanotubes seem to have unlimited potential" (ibid). CONDITION & DETAILS: London: Macmillan. First edition in original wraps. Complete single issue. 4to. 11 x 8.5 inches (275 x 213mm). Tightly bound and bright and clean throughout. Very good condition.

London: Macmillan & Co, 1892. Second expanded and corrected edition of Hereditary Genius, Galton's best known and most influential work. "Galton originated the practice of empirical research in medical genetics. ... "Hereditary Genius", his best-known and most influential book" (Norman Coll. I, 864). Published in 1892 twenty years after the first edition, Galton's research continued and considerable corrections have been made in the text and are delineated in the introduction. Initially, this work "on the genetics of intelligence [was] a compilation of biographical data of eminent men and their genetic history...[but] in assessing the role of heredity, Galton unfortunately disregarded such obvious factors as socio-economic status and opportunity for education" (ibid). Galton's ‘improvements' in this edition include Galton's admission of regret at the Galton the choice of Hereditary Genius. Instead, he now prefers Hereditary Ability which he sees as inclusive of the "comparative worth of… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1886. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME FIRST EDITION WITH TWO WORKS BY FRANCIS GALTON. Sir Francis Galton F.R.S. (1822-1911) was a Victorian polymath: geographer, meteorologist, tropical explorer, founder of differential psychology, inventor of fingerprint identification, pioneer of statistical correlation and regression, convinced hereditarian, eugenicist, proto-geneticist, half-cousin of Charles Darwin and best-selling author. "To study humans, Galton founded the Anthropometric Laboratory in 1884. Data was accumulated through the physical measurement of hundreds of individuals, and results published in Natural Inheritance indicated physical characteristics indeed fit the normal law. Galton however, was not merely interested in physical characteristics, as he claimed that intelligence is inherited. "To demonstrate this, he needed a method to show the intelligence of one generation was "co-related" to that of the previous generation, so that he might argue for the causal… Read More

New York: The American Physical Society, 1969. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME 1969 FIRST EDITION OF TWO PAPERS PRESENTING THE FIRST EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF THE EXISTENCE OF QUARKS WITHIN THE ATOMIC NUCLEUS. Quarks had been predicted in 1964 by Murray Gell-Mann but until these experiments, no one had produced convincing experimental evidence for the existence of quarks inside the proton or neutron ("Friedman, Kendall and Taylor Win Nobel Prize for First Quark Evidence", Physics Today, Vol. 44, 1, pp. 17). In demonstrating that quarks are real particles, the lead scientists on these two papers, Jerome Friedman, Henry Kendall, and Richard Taylor confirmed Murray Gell-Mann's hypothesis of their existence and for their discovery, the trio were awarded the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics. Taylor passed away in early 2018 a further note about his import appears below. The first paper, "High-Energy Inelastic e-p Scattering at 6(deg) and 10(deg)" "describes the experiment that identified the point-like centers within… Read More

Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard Ltd, 1952. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE PAPER IN WHICH FRANCIS CRICK DEMONSTRATES THAT THE THEN ACCEPTED PERUTZ MODEL OF HEMOGLOBIN OF LONG PARALLEL CHAINS CANNOT BE CORRECT. "Max Perutz was one of the first crystallographers to attempt the deciphering of macrostructures... Perutz used the Patterson method for investigating the structure of haemoglobin. Perutz reasoned that if "the [haemo]globin molecule consisted of a complex interlocking system of coiled polypeptide chains where interatomic vectors occur with equal frequency in all possible directions, the Patterson synthesis would be unlikely to provide a clue to the structure" (Schindler, Model, Theory and Evidence in the Discovery of the DNA Structure, 11). H. Perutz original interpretation of a molecule made up of alpha chains which run parallel to the X-axis was clearly much too simple. "Quantitative considerations led Crick [in this paper] to the conclusion that chains running parallel… Read More