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Rio de Janeiro:: Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, 1960., 1960. Series: Monografias de Fisica, No. VI. 281 x 215 mm. 4to. [iv], 91 pp. Figs., Cloth-backed printed wrappers, extremities chipped, lower corner dog-eared, ms. notations on top cover. Good. RARE. Chen Ning Yang shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957 with Tsung Dao Lee (b. 1926) "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws, which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles." Wasson, Nobel Prize winners, p. 1152.

No place:: National Academy of Sciences, 1950., 1950. 8vo. 167-176 pp. Figs. Original printed wrappers. Ownership rubber stamp of Norman Horowitz. FINE. Yanofsky was a pioneer geneticist who "showed that suppressor mutations result in the reappearance of an enzyme that has been missing from a mutant organism." McGraw-Hill, Modern Men of Science, p. 621. He carried out numerous studies of tryptophan and Neurospora Crassa, and made significant contributions to the science of genetics. Yanofsky studied at Yale, and in 2003 was awarded the National Medal of Science. Most of the papers bear the rubber stamp or signature of Pioneer Caltech geneticist Norman Horowitz. WITH: YANOFSKY. "The Effects of Gene Change on Tryptophan Desmolase Formation." Offprint from: Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., vol. 38, no. 3, 1952. 8vo. 215-226 pp. Printed wrappers. Full list available on request.

Amsterdam & London:: North-Holland; New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1969., 1969. Series: Frontiers of Biology, Vol. 12. 246 x 174 mm. 8vo. xiii, 360 pp. Figs., tables, bibliog., index. Blind- and gilt-stamped dark green cloth, dust-jacket. Ownership rubber stamps. Very good.

No place:: Physical Review, 1967., 1967. 4to. pp. 513-515. 1 fig. Stapled. With several photocopy sheets relating to this paper, reproducing manuscript formulae and a chart. Very good. Yen was with the Dept. of Physics, State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook.

(Columbia, SC):: University of Carolina Press, (2009)., 2009. 8vo. viii, 146 pp. Printed wrappers. Fine. ISBN: 9781570038709

Albany:: Weed & Parsons Co., 1865., 1865. Lithographed onionskin sheet, 558 x 468 mm; short closed tear. Blind-stamped red covers, gilt-stamped cover title; extremities rubbed, covers soiled. Very good.

Oxford:: Shakespeare Head Press, 1972., 1972. Small 8vo. 62 pp. Color frontis., illus. Black cloth-backed, gilt-stamped, colored paper over bds. Inscribed by Thomas F. O'Connell (Director of Libraries), to David C. Weber (Stanford University Library Director). CONTENTS: From Reaction to Interaction by Samuel Rothstein. - The Library and the Bookseller, by Richard Blackwell. - The Premise of Meaning, by Archibald MacLeish.

London:: Printed for William Cole, [c.1810]., 1810. Small 8vo. x, [11]-320 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait and half-title. Original full blind- and gilt-stamped black calf, red leather spine label, all edges marbled, marbled endsheets. Early ownership signature of John Nicholson, Maidenhead. Very good. Charming little volume of the famous poet's works.

Washington, D.C.:: National Academy of Sciences, 1970., 1970. 236 x 173 mm. 8vo. xiii, 533 pp. Figs., list of participants, glossary, indexes. White-stamped purple cloth. Fine.

Glasgow:: Jackson, Wylie, 1926., 1926. 216 x 140 mm. 8vo. 52 pp. Frontis. port., bibliog. Printed wrappers. Fine. SCARCE.

Boston:: Richard G. Badger, 1922., 1922. 8vo. 509 pp. Frontis. port of John James Audubon, photos and illustrations, index; small piece missing from rear endpaper. Brown cloth, silver stamped spine title, dust-jacket; jacket worn. Burndy bookplate. Very good.

No place:: Nature, 1963., 1963. 8vo. 1078-1079 pp. 2 figs. Self-wraps; browned. A FINE GROUP. Young was Acting Chief of the Exobiology Division of the NASA Ames Research Center. WITH: YOUNG, Cyril PONNAMPERUMA, & Barbara K. MCCAW. "Abiogenic Synthesis on Mars." Offprint from: Life Sciences and Space Research III (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1965). 8vo. 127-138 pp. Photos. Printed wrappers. Full list available on request.

Cambridge:: University Press, 1954., 1954. 8vo. xx, 355 pp. Frontis., plates, figures, appendices, index. Gilt-stamped blue cloth, dust jacket; worn jacket. Bookplate of Roger Hahn. Very good.

Oxford:: Clarendon Press, (1963)., 1963. Thick 8vo. xv, 820 pp. Numerous figures, index. Blue cloth. Ownership signature and title initials (former owner). Near fine. Oversized book.

London:: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1955., 1955. 8vo. viii, [2], 155, [1] pp. 9 figs., index. Navy blind- and gilt-stamped cloth; rubbed. Ownership inscription of Richard Weiss. Very good. Dedicated to the memory of Max Planck.

[Upton, New York]:: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Associated Universities, Inc. under contract with the United States Atomic Energy Commission, (1965)., 1965. BNL 888 (T-360) (Physics - TID-4500, 35th ed.). 254 x 177 mm. 8vo. [viii], 149 pp. List of contributors, figs., tables. Printed wrappers; foot of spine chipped. Very good. Thirty major contributors include Hans Bethe, T. D. Lee, Robert Marshak, J. Robert Oppenheimer (who contributed a foreword), Abraham Pais, Julian Schwinger, Sam Treiman, Steven Weinberg, Viktor Weisskopf, and C. N. Yang.

No place:: Physical Review Letters, 1959., 1959. 4to. pp. 561-563. 1 fig., 1 table. Stapled. Very good. The authors are associated with the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York. WITH: YUAN, & H. UTO, G. F. DELL, & C. L. WANG. "Detection of X-Ray Transition Radiation With Multiwire Proportional Chambers." Amsterdam: Holland-North, 1971. Offprint from: Nuclear Instruments and Methods, 97, 1971. 4to. pp. 389-393. 6 figs. Yellow printed wrappers. Fine. WITH: YUAN, & H. UTO, G. F. DELL, & P. W. ALLEY. "Relativistic Particle Separation by Means of Transition Radiation Utilizing Multiwire Proportional Chambers." Offprint from: Physics Letters, vol. 40B, no. 6, Aug. 21, 1972. 4to. pp. 689-692. 7 figs. Self wraps. Fine.

[Tokyo]:: Proceedings of the Physico-Mathematical Society of Japan, 1938., 1938. 14 offprints, 1 handout. Original wrappers. From the collection of Abraham Pais. Very good. BIOGRAPHY: Yukawa was a Japanese theoretical physicist, and the first Japanese Nobel Laureate. He spent most of his life teaching at Kyoto University. His 1935 paper, "On the Interaction of Elementary Particles," proposed a new field theory of nuclear forces and predicted the existence of mesons—it was this discovery which led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. / INVENTORY: 1. YUKAWA, Hideki; Sakata, Shoichi. The Mass and the Life Time of the Mesotron. Offprint from: Proceedings of the Physico-Mathematics Society of Japan, 3rd Ser., Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 138-140. March, 1938. 2. YUKAWA, Hideki; Sakata, Shoichi; Kobayashi, Minoru; Taketani. On the Interaction OE Elementary Particles. IV. Offprint from: Proceedings of the Physico-Mathematical Society of Japan, 3rd Ser., Vol. 20, No. 9, pp.720-745, September, 1938. 3.… Read More

No place:: National Academy of Sciences, 1959., 1959. 8vo. 197-204 pp. Figs. Printed wrappers. Ownership rubber stamp of Norman Horowitz. INSCRIBED BY YURA. Fine. Yura was associated with the Dept. of Microbiology, Yale University School of Medicine. All of the papers bear the rubber stamp of pioneer Caltech geneticist Norman Horowitz. WITH: YURA. "Genetic Alteration of Pyrroline-5-Carboxylate Reductase in Neurospora." Offprint from: X International Congress of Genetics, Proceedings , vol. II. 8vo. Single leaf. Ms. correction. Full list available on request.

Paris:: Bordas, 1952., 1952. Head of title: Pour Connaitre. 8vo. 284, [3] pp. Original printed wrappers. Signature of Roger Hahn. Very good.