PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZE 1937.

DAVISSON, C. J.

Electrons and Quanta.

New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1929. 8vo. Original full green cloth. Volume VIII, 1929 of The Bell System Technical Journal. Library stamp to front free end-paper and title page. Minor bumping to extremities. A nice and clean copy. Pp. 217-224. [Entire volume: (8), 861 pp.].

First edition of Davisson's paper on electrons and quanta. Together with George Paget Thomson he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 for his discovery of electron diffraction.

"The experiments by the author and L. H. Germer, by G. P. Thomson and by others from which the wave properties of electrons are adduced are briefly described. The agreement between the results of these experiments and the prediction of L. de Broglie is pointed out. The wave and corpuscular properties of electrons are compared with the similar properties of light quanta."(From the introduction to the present paper).

Other papers of interest is contained in the present volume:
1. Osborne, H.S. The Principles of Electric Circuits Applied to Communication. Pp. 3-20.
2. Frederick, Halsey A. Recent Advances in Wax Recording. Pp. 159-172.
3. Elmen, G.W. Magnetic Alloys of Iron, Nickel, and Cobalt. Pp. 435-465.
4. Davisson, C.J.; Germer, L.H. A Test for Polarization of Electron Waves by Reflection. Pp. 466-481.
5. Martin, W.H.; Gray, C.H.G. Master Reference System for Telephone Transmission. Pp. 536-559
6. Germer, L.H. An Application of Electron Diffraction to the Study of Gas Adsorption. Pp. 591-604
7. Darrow, Karl K. Statistical Theories of Matter, Radiation and Electricity. Pp. 672-748.
8. Fletcher, H.; Steinberg, J.C. Articulation Testing Methods. Pp. 806-854.

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