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LANGEVIN, PAUL. 1872-1946. Thèses présentées à la Faculté des Sciences de l'Université de Paris ... Recherches sur les gaz ionisés ... Soutenues le [blank] décembre 1902. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1902. image 1
LANGEVIN, PAUL. 1872-1946. Thèses présentées à la Faculté des Sciences de l'Université de Paris ... Recherches sur les gaz ionisés ... Soutenues le [blank] décembre 1902. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1902. image 2
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LANGEVIN, PAUL. 1872-1946.
Thèses présentées à la Faculté des Sciences de l'Université de Paris ... Recherches sur les gaz ionisés ... Soutenues le [blank] décembre 1902. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1902.

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LANGEVIN, PAUL. 1872-1946.

Thèses présentées à la Faculté des Sciences de l'Université de Paris ... Recherches sur les gaz ionisés ... Soutenues le [blank] décembre 1902. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1902.
8vo (231 x 136 mm). [vi], 207, [1] pp. Diagrams in text. Full maroon morocco presentation binding, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, a.e.g., silk endpapers, inner gilt dentelles. Cloth slipcase.
Provenance: Sir Joseph John Thomson (gilt initials to f.f.e.p.; presentation inscription).

A PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED TO NOBEL LAUREATE SIR JOSEPH JOHN THOMSON. Langevin's doctoral thesis on the ionization of gases, based on work done under Thomson's direction at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. Langevin went on to become France's leading practicioner and expositor of mathematical physics. The thesis is dedicated to Thomson (1856-1940), who was awarded the Nobel prize in 1906 for his discovery of the electron; Langevin warmly inscribes the copy on the dedication leaf: "En souvenir de l'année délicieuse que j'ai passé à Cambridge et de l'inoubliable hospitalité que j'y ai reçu, j'offre au Professeur J. J. Thomson cette modeste contribution à l'oeuvre qu'il a, plus que tout autre, contribué à édifier. Bien affectueusement, P. Langevin." The thesis was published by Gauthier-Villars, who published Marie Curie's thesis on radioactivity a year later.

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