232 x 152 mm. 8vo. Pages 481-486. [Entire volume: viii, 917 pp.] Navy cloth, gilt spine. Blind-stamps of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Mount Wilson Observatory. FINE. FIRST EDITION. In this joint paper by the veteran investigator (Orntsein) and the junior faculty member (Kramers) on atomic theory, the authors investigated how the classical collision formula in the kinetic-theory of gases has to be modified in order that the molecules shall be distributed according to the Fermi-law. In 1914, Leonard Ornstein succeeded Peter Debye as the chair of theoretical physics at the University ... View More...
Second English edition, revised. 8vo. xiv, 231 pp. Figs. Blue cloth, gilt spine; spine ends slightly rubbed. Bookplate & rubber stamp (top edge) of Lawrence Badash. A fine copy. View More...
