BOLTZMANN, LUDWIG. - WITH NOTABLE PROVENANCE.

Vorlesungen über Maxwells Theorie der Elektricität und des Lichtes. I.- (II.) Theil. (1. Ableitung der Grundgleichungen für ruhende, homogene, isotrope Körper. - 2. Verhältniss zur Fernwirkungstheorie; specielle Fälle der Elektrostatik, stationären Strömung und Induction).

Leipzig, Johan Ambrosius Barth, 1891-93. 2 orig. full decorated cloth. Very light wear to spine ends. XII,189;VIII,160 pp. and 4 plates (2 large folding) and textillustr. Clean and fine. On both front free endpaper the previous owners names, the two famous physicists Walter Makower and Aage Bohr 1945.

First edition of one of Boltzmann's main works. "In the 1890’s Boltzmann again revived his interest in electromagnetic theory, perhaps as a result of Hertz’s experiments, which he repeated before a large audience in Graz. He published his Vorlesungen über Maxwells Theorie in 1891 and 1893, along with some papers in which he suggested new mechanical models to illustrate the field equations." (DSB).

Walter Mackower, a research student under Thomson effected his transformation into a physicist, and his M.A. was for a thesis on the diffusion properties of radium emanation (radon). He later worked with Rutherford, Geiger, Rush and Fajans and he did pioneering research on radioactive substances and radioactive recoil.

Aage Bohr, son of Niels Bohr, was awarded the Nobel Price in physics jointly with Mottelson and Rainwater in 1975 "for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection".

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