SMOLUCHOWSKI, MARIAN.

Contributions to the theory of transpiration, diffusion and thermal conduction in rarified gases.

Cracovie, Imprimerie de L'Université, 1910. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from "Bulletin de L'Académie des Sciences de Cracovie", Juillet 1910. Very fine and clean. Pp. (2), 295-312.

Scarce offprint of Smoluchowski early work on thermal transpiration in rarefied gases. Maxwell worked on the subject in the 1880ies but it was not until Danish Knudsen and Smoluchowski - with the present paper - the subject was reintroduced and created the whole field research in vacuum.

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