chamberlain owen (15 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. 1st Edition. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. Previous owner's details and cataloguing information to preliminary pages. 158 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.

Hard Cover. Zustand: F-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: F-. First Edition. F-/F-. 4to. original brown textured paper boards gilt in dustwrapper (a trifle rubbed & marked); pp. 158, with illustrations. A near fine copy.

(26 x 18,5 cm). SS. (593)-931. Mit Abbildungen. Original-Broschur. Erste Ausgabe. - Chamberlain (1920-2006), Professor für Physik in Berkeley, entdeckte 1955 zusammen mit Emilio Segrè u.a. das Antiproton und bekam dafür 1959 zusammen mit Segrè den Nobelpreis für Physik. - Rücken sauber erneuert, sonst wohlerhalten.

(26,5 x 18,5 cm). SS. (763)-979. Mit Abbildungen. Original-Broschur. Erste Ausgabe. - Chamberlain (1920-2006), Professor für Physik in Berkeley, entdeckt 1955 zusammen mit Emilio Segrè u.a. das Antiproton und bekommt dafür 1959, zusammen mit Segrè den Nobelpreis für Physik. - Sauber und wohlerhalten.

20'' x 12½'' original large folio foyer / lobby card advertisement colour poster printed ink on thick silk art paper from The Savoy Theatre, Savoy Court, Strand, London. In Fine condition. Sent rolled in a tube with end caps. Member of the P.B.F.A. THEATRE (Cinema) POSTERS.

5 vol.: vol. 1: 57 pp. ; vol. 2: 58 pp. ; vol. 3: 42 pp.; vol. 4: 66 pp. ; vol. 5: 50 pp.; 5 vol.: 23.2 x 14.6 cm. (each); glue bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Volumes I-V of "Summary of a Workshop," a biannual series of symposiums on contemporary art sponsored by the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation and held at various North American locations. Each symposium was accompanied by a catalogue which summarized the conversations that took place. Volume I: "The Relationship Between Art and Architecture," held in Santa Monica, CA, January 21-22, 1989. Participants included: Frank O. Gehry, Daniel Buren, Jean-Louis Cohen, Cesar Pelli, Donald Judd, Irving Lavin, Germano Celant, Henry N. Cobb, Christopher Knight, Mildred Friedman, John Chamberlain, Peter Eisenman, Robert Irwin, Michael Graves, Nancy Wexler, Henry T. Hopkins, and Michael Rotondi. Volume II: "Art + Architecture + Society," held in Toronto, Canada, July 22-23, 1989. Participants included: Henry T. Hopkins, Michael Rotondi, Diana Agrest, Lynda Benglis, Scott Burton, Adele Freedman, April Greiman, Alanna Heiss, Craig Hodgetts, Walter Hopps, Catherine Ingraham, Eric Owen Moss, Matt Mullican, Larry Richards, David Ross, Alexis Smith, and Leon Whiteson. Volume III, "Art Fairs : Plans and Process," held in Los Angeles, CA, December 5-6, 1989. Participants included: O. Kelley Anderson Jr., Brian Angel, Dr. Alberto Anfossi, Rosina Gómez Baeza, Dr. Emil Bammatter, Thomas P. Blackman, Van Deren Coke, Michelle De Angelus, Milton Esterow, Anita Kaegi, Claudio Bruni Sakraischik, Allan Schwartzman, Leif Ståhle, Tamara Thomas, Robert Thomson. Volume IV, "Conservation and Contemporary Art," held in Richmond, VA, June 4-5, 1990. Participants included: Henry T. Hopkins, Billie Milam, Albert Albano, James Bernstein, Sharon Blank, Victoria Blyth Hill, Tom Branchick, William Leischer, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Ross Merill, Roy De Forest, Tim Ebner, George Herms, Duane Hanson, Rotraut Klein-Moquay, Ida Kohlmeyer, Miriam Shapiro, Paul Brach, Zora Sweet Pinney, and Nora Halpern Brougher. Volume V, "Support for the Arts in Unsupportive Times," held in Los Angeles, CA, December 4-5, 1990. Participants included: Nora Halpern Brougher, Henry T. Hopkins, Cee Scott Brown, Marie Cieri, Pamela Clapp, Gary Garrels, Stanley Grinstein, David Ireland, Steven D. Lavine, Bella Lewitzky, Lisa Lyons, Anne MacDonald, Peter Norton, Max Palevsky, Claire Peeps, Dr. Thomas Reese, Joy Silverman, Tina Summerlin, Ella King Torrey, Joel Wachs, and Frederick R. Weisman. "Twice each year the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation conducts workshops dealing with issues of importance to those involved in the creation, exposition, collection, conservation and education of international contemporary art in all of its manifestations. These workshops bring together approximately eighteen experts in closed session for two days. The topic is determined by the Foundation but the direction that conversation takes is determined by the participants. There is no agenda. The workshops are taped, transcribed, edited, published in the present form and distributed to participants, interested parties, museums and libraries." -- Henry T. Hopkins, director. Very Good / Fine. Set of 5 volumes. Light rubbing and yellowing of cover edges and light yellowing of pages, otherwise Fine. Contents clean and unmarked.

Zustand: VG. Lancaster, PA 1954 first edition. American Physical Society. Original green printed 4to wraps. Chamberlain et al article is on pp. 850-851. Issue paginated 671-868. VG faint owner name stamp (A. Oppenheim) on front cover. Text clean; binding secure. Chamberlain and Segre won the Physics Nobel in 1959.

Zustand: VG. Four articles in one complete issue of The Physical Review, volume 102, second series, number 3. May 1, 1956. 4to . Original green printed wraps. articles on pp. 618-623; 624-631; 851-856, 921-22. Complete issue paginated 593-931. VG small ink stain on closed page ends; owner name stamp on cover. Binding secure and text clean.

8vo. 1 p. Gedr. Briefkopf. Mit Kuvert. Namenszug auf gedr. Briefbogen.

Zustand: Good. Broadside. 8.5" x 11" 4 pp. French-fold Sheets, Good with tiny marginal tear, creasing, faint damp stains. Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books, Berkeley.

Zustand: VG. Article on pp. 947-950 in single complete issue of The Physical Review. volume 100 second series. number 3, November 1, 1955. first edition. 4to. Green printed wraps. Complete issue paginated pp. 763-979. VG plus , text Fine, very clean and binding secure. Owner name stamp on front cover. Nobel laureate.

1. (with Clyde Wiegand) Proton-proton scattering at 340 Mev. Offprint from The Physical Review 79 (1950). 81-85pp. 268 x 201 mm. Without wrappers as issued. Tear in lower margins of all leaves, light toning. First edition, offprint issue. 2. (With Clyde Wiegand). Experiments on proton-proton scattering from 120 to 345 Mev. Offprint from The Physical Review 83 (1951). 923-932pp. 268 x 201 mm. Without wrappers as issued.First edition, offprint issue. 3. (with Emilio Segre, Clyde Wiegand and Thomas Ypsilantis). Antiprotons. Offprint from Nature 177 (1956). [4]pp. 213 x 141 mm. Without wrappers as issued. First edition, offprint issue. 4. (With 20 other authors). The antiproton-nucleon annihilation process (antiproton collaboration experiment). Reproduced typescript. 91ff. Berkeley: Printed for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1956. 281 x 218 mm. Chamberlain's name inscribed in a secretarial hand on first leaf. First edition. 5. The early antiproton work. Les Prix Nobel en 1959. 107-124pp. Stockholm, 1960. 248 x 166 mm. Original printed wrappers. First edition. Chamberlain shared the 1959 Nobel Prize for physics with Emilio Segre for their discovery of the antiproton, the antiparticle (same mass, different charge) of the proton. The antiproton had been predicted by Dirac in the 1930s, but it was not until 1955 that Chamberlain and Segre, both physicists at UC Berkeley, were able to confirm the particle's existence experimentally using the University of California's new Bevatron particle accelerator. The third, fourth and fifth papers offered here describe some of Chamberlain's antiproton work; no. 5 is his Nobel Lecture. The first and second papers offered here describe Chamberlain's early research on proton-proton scattering, undertaken with experimental physicist Clyde Wiegand. .

(New York), American physical Society, 1955. Lex8vo. In the original printed blue wrappers. In "The Physical Review", Volume 100, No. 3, November 1, 1955. Previous owner's stamp (Danish physicist C. Møller) to front wrapper. A very nice and clean copy externally as well as internally. Pp. 947-50. [Entire issue: 763-979]. First printing of Chamberlain, Segré, Wiegand and Ypsilantis landmark paper in which they first presented their discovery of antiprotons. Chambelain was together with Segré in 1959 awarded the Nobel prize in physics "for their discovery of the antiproton".The detection of the antiproton was first achieved in the fall of 1955 by the Berkeley physicists Owen Chamberlain [et al]. Their scintillators and Cerenkov counters showed about 60 antiproton condidates, but the ultimate proof of the particle, its annihilation with an ordinary proton, was not immediatedly confirmed. (Kragh, Quantum Generations). Since 1955, the antiparticles of many other subatomic particles have been created in particle accelerator experiments. In recent years, complete atoms ofantimatter have been assembled out of antiprotons and positrons, collected in electromagnetic traps.

First edition. Discovery of the Antiproton Chamberlain, Owen (1920-2006), Emilio Segrè (1905-89) et al. Observation of antiprotons. In The Physical Review, 2nd series, 100 (1955): 947-50. Whole number. 763-979pp. 268 x 202 mm. Original printed wrappers, vertical crease in back wrapper. Boxed. First Edition, journal issue. Segrè and Chamberlain, colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in physics for their discovery of the antiproton, a particle with the same mass and spin as the proton but with opposite charge and magnetic moment. Such antiparticles had been predicted in 1928 by Dirac's relativistic theory of the electron, and the first such particle, the positron, had been discovered by C. D. Anderson in 1932. Several rival groups at Berkeley also entered the antiproton hunt, but the Segrè team's experimental ingenuity insured its triumph: "I decided to attack the problem in two ways. One was based on the determination of the charge and mass of the particle. The other concentrated on the observation of the phenomena attendant on the annihilation of a stopping antiproton. The stopping antiproton and a proton of the target should mutually annihilate each other, and the rest mass of the two particles should transform itself in one of many possible ways into other particles such as pions. These would leave tracks in a photographic emulsion and the annihilation would thus become evident. . . . "We started the run on August 25, 1955, and after a few days of tuning up, we began observing antiproton signals. We based the identification on measurement of the velocity, momentum, and charge of a particle. The signals for velocity were oscilloscope traces recording the passage of a particle through a velocity-selecting Cerenkov detector. . . . We detected about one antiproton for every few hundred thousand other particles crossing our apparatus. . . . We decided to write a letter to the Physical Review and an article for Nature. . . . The mass-spectrograph experiment concluded on October 1, 1955, having proved the existence of the antiproton, and soon thereafter the emulsion work confirmed it" (Segrè, A Mind Always in Motion, pp. 256-57). .

Zustand: VG. Four articles in 3 separate complete issues of The Physical Review. First two articles are in volume 102 second series. number 6, June 15, 1956 . Third article is in The Physical Review vol 103, no 5, September 1956 and fourth in vol 105 , no. 1, January 1, 1957. first edition. 4to. Green printed wraps. Many additional articles in the issues as well . VG , text clean and binding secure. owner name stamp on front cover. Light cover wear. Three separate issues of Physical Review: