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QUANTUM MECHANICS AND MAGNETISM. VAN VLECK, JOHN HASBROUK. 1899-1980.
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QUANTUM MECHANICS AND MAGNETISM.
VAN VLECK, JOHN HASBROUK. 1899-1980. Collection of 30 offprints, 1922-47, most in original wrappers, some lacking wrappers or without wrappers as issued. Including:
1. "The Normal Helium Atom and its Relation to the Quantum Theory. Offprint from: Philosophical Magazine 44 (November 1922).
2. "Two notes on quantum conditions." Offprint from: Physical Review, December, 1923.
3. "The absorption of radiation by multiply periodic orbits, and its relation to the correspondence principle and the Rayleigh-Jeans law." Offprint from: Physical Review 24, October 1924.
A complete listing of the important papers included in this lot is available upon request.
Provenance: 29 from the library of physicist Raymond T. Birge (1887-1980) with his ownership inscription and notations to front wrappers, 1 from the library of Nobel laureate Emilio Segrè (1905-89), 1 with text correction in Van Vleck's hand; Jeremy Norman.
FIRST SEPARATE EDITIONS, EIGHT BEING PRESENTATION COPIES. Van Vleck, "the father of modern magnetism" (Weber, p 249), received a share of the 1977 Nobel Prize for physics for his fundamental investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic systems, and his successful use of quantum mechanics to explain magnetic phenomena. This important work, most of which was performed during the 1920s and 1930s (the time period from which our collection of offprints dates), has had a "profound influence on nearly every part of the science of condensed matter ... [underlying] the development of computer memories, office copying machines and many other electronic devices" (Magee p 1111). This work played a vital part in establishing the fields of solid-state physics, chemical physics and quantum electronics. Van Vleck earned his doctorate in physics from Harvard University with the "first wholly theoretical thesis dealing with quantum theory to be accepted by an American university" (Magee p 1113). This thesis (included) was on one of the most difficult problems in the old quantum theory: calculation of the ground state and ionization energy of the "crossed-orbit" model of the helium atom. During the next twelve years Van Vleck taught at the Universities of Minnesota (1923-28) and Wisconsin (1928-34), where he performed the work that established him as a physicist. He made his greatest contribution to the old quantum theory in 1924, when he conceived his correspondence principle for absorption. In his long two-part paper on the subject (included), Van Vleck "not only established the relation between Einstein's absorption coefficient and the motion of the electron in atoms (as Born did), he also demonstrated that the classical absorption corresponded to the difference between the absorption and the induced emission in the sense of Einstein" (Mehra and Rechenberg, p 647).
1. "The Normal Helium Atom and its Relation to the Quantum Theory. Offprint from: Philosophical Magazine 44 (November 1922).
2. "Two notes on quantum conditions." Offprint from: Physical Review, December, 1923.
3. "The absorption of radiation by multiply periodic orbits, and its relation to the correspondence principle and the Rayleigh-Jeans law." Offprint from: Physical Review 24, October 1924.
A complete listing of the important papers included in this lot is available upon request.
Provenance: 29 from the library of physicist Raymond T. Birge (1887-1980) with his ownership inscription and notations to front wrappers, 1 from the library of Nobel laureate Emilio Segrè (1905-89), 1 with text correction in Van Vleck's hand; Jeremy Norman.
FIRST SEPARATE EDITIONS, EIGHT BEING PRESENTATION COPIES. Van Vleck, "the father of modern magnetism" (Weber, p 249), received a share of the 1977 Nobel Prize for physics for his fundamental investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic systems, and his successful use of quantum mechanics to explain magnetic phenomena. This important work, most of which was performed during the 1920s and 1930s (the time period from which our collection of offprints dates), has had a "profound influence on nearly every part of the science of condensed matter ... [underlying] the development of computer memories, office copying machines and many other electronic devices" (Magee p 1111). This work played a vital part in establishing the fields of solid-state physics, chemical physics and quantum electronics. Van Vleck earned his doctorate in physics from Harvard University with the "first wholly theoretical thesis dealing with quantum theory to be accepted by an American university" (Magee p 1113). This thesis (included) was on one of the most difficult problems in the old quantum theory: calculation of the ground state and ionization energy of the "crossed-orbit" model of the helium atom. During the next twelve years Van Vleck taught at the Universities of Minnesota (1923-28) and Wisconsin (1928-34), where he performed the work that established him as a physicist. He made his greatest contribution to the old quantum theory in 1924, when he conceived his correspondence principle for absorption. In his long two-part paper on the subject (included), Van Vleck "not only established the relation between Einstein's absorption coefficient and the motion of the electron in atoms (as Born did), he also demonstrated that the classical absorption corresponded to the difference between the absorption and the induced emission in the sense of Einstein" (Mehra and Rechenberg, p 647).