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LOS ALAMOS SCIENTIFIC LABORATORIES. 1. LA report 24. Lectures on nuclear physics [caption title]. [Los Alamos, 1943-44].
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LOS ALAMOS SCIENTIFIC LABORATORIES.
1. LA report 24. Lectures on nuclear physics [caption title]. [Los Alamos, 1943-44]. 8vo. [6], 329 pp, mimeographed on loose-leaf sheets (rectos only), hole-punched. Modern binder.
2. Lecture Series in Nuclear Physics (MDDC 1175). Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1947. 8vo. [4], 132 pp. Text diagrams. Original printed wrappers, a little frayed & chipped; former owner's signature on front wrapper. Both items preserved together in a custom clamshell box.
Provenance: Jeremy Norman.
RARE PRE-PUBLICATION VERSION, TOGETHER WITH THE FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION. These 46 lectures on nuclear physics were delivered at Los Alamos between September 14, 1943 and January 29, 1944 by various members of the scientific team responsible for developing the atomic bomb. They, like everything generated at Los Alamos, were classified information at the time they were delivered. They have no formal imprint and are identified for on the front sheet for security reasons only as "LA report 24," as officially, Los Alamos did not exist. Mimeographed copies such as this were prepared on site in very limited numbers for use of the Los Alamos scientists and (possibly) other members of the Manhattan Project. Of the few copies issued, most were probably destroyed for security reasons before the lectures' declassification in October 1945.
The lectures are divided into six series: "Terminology," "Radioactivity," "Neutron Physics," "Two Body Problem," "The Statistical Theory of Nuclear Reactions," and "Diffusion Theory." Among the lecturers were Edwin M. McMillan (b. 1907), co-discoverer of the first transuranic element (neptunium) and sharer (with Glenn Seaborg) of the 1951 Nobel Prize for chemistry, lecturing on terminology; Emilio Segrè (1905-89), who shared with Owen Chamberlain the 1959 Nobel Prize for physics for their discovery of the antiproton, lecturing on radioactivity with Teller and Bloch; Edward Teller (1908-2003), the man largely responsible for the development of the hydrogen bomb; Felix Bloch (1905-83), co-winner (with Edward Purcell) of the 1952 Nobel Prize for physics for their work on nuclear magnetic resonance; Victor Weisskopf (b. 1908), co-author with Pauli of the Pauli-Weisskopf theory of the quantum dynamics of spinless fields, lecturing on the statistical theory of nuclear reactions; and Robert F. Christy (b. 1916), a student of Oppenheimer and co-author of significant papers on mesotron theory, lecturing on diffusion theory.
2. Lecture Series in Nuclear Physics (MDDC 1175). Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1947. 8vo. [4], 132 pp. Text diagrams. Original printed wrappers, a little frayed & chipped; former owner's signature on front wrapper. Both items preserved together in a custom clamshell box.
Provenance: Jeremy Norman.
RARE PRE-PUBLICATION VERSION, TOGETHER WITH THE FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION. These 46 lectures on nuclear physics were delivered at Los Alamos between September 14, 1943 and January 29, 1944 by various members of the scientific team responsible for developing the atomic bomb. They, like everything generated at Los Alamos, were classified information at the time they were delivered. They have no formal imprint and are identified for on the front sheet for security reasons only as "LA report 24," as officially, Los Alamos did not exist. Mimeographed copies such as this were prepared on site in very limited numbers for use of the Los Alamos scientists and (possibly) other members of the Manhattan Project. Of the few copies issued, most were probably destroyed for security reasons before the lectures' declassification in October 1945.
The lectures are divided into six series: "Terminology," "Radioactivity," "Neutron Physics," "Two Body Problem," "The Statistical Theory of Nuclear Reactions," and "Diffusion Theory." Among the lecturers were Edwin M. McMillan (b. 1907), co-discoverer of the first transuranic element (neptunium) and sharer (with Glenn Seaborg) of the 1951 Nobel Prize for chemistry, lecturing on terminology; Emilio Segrè (1905-89), who shared with Owen Chamberlain the 1959 Nobel Prize for physics for their discovery of the antiproton, lecturing on radioactivity with Teller and Bloch; Edward Teller (1908-2003), the man largely responsible for the development of the hydrogen bomb; Felix Bloch (1905-83), co-winner (with Edward Purcell) of the 1952 Nobel Prize for physics for their work on nuclear magnetic resonance; Victor Weisskopf (b. 1908), co-author with Pauli of the Pauli-Weisskopf theory of the quantum dynamics of spinless fields, lecturing on the statistical theory of nuclear reactions; and Robert F. Christy (b. 1916), a student of Oppenheimer and co-author of significant papers on mesotron theory, lecturing on diffusion theory.