DICKE, R. H. (+) W. B. HAWKINS.

The polarization of sodium atoms.

Lancaster, AMerican Physical Society, 1953. Lex8vo. Entire volume offered in the original blue wrappers with previous owner´s stamps [C. Møller, Danish physician] to front wrapper. In "The Physical Review" Volume 91, August 15, No. 4, 1953 of , Second Series. A fine and clean copy. Pp. 1008-1009. [Entire volume: Pp. 775-1033].

First printing of Dicke's early studies of polarization of atoms.
"After the war Dicke returned to Princeton University, where he had spent two years as an undergraduate. He was appointed Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics in 1957 and Albert Einstein Professor of Science in 1975. In his first decade back at Princeton Dicke put aside his interest in astronomy, working instead on quantum optics and techniques of precision measurements of atomic structure. His style is illustrated by his demonstration of what came to be called Dicke buffering" (DSB)

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