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FERMI, Enrico. Thermodynamics. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1937. 8o. Original cloth. Provenance: Bernice Robert Thomas (ownership inscription on front free endpaper).
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FERMI, Enrico. Nuclear Physics. A Course Given by Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago. [Chicago: University of Chicago Press,] 1949. 8o. "To the Reader" and 3 errata leaves laid-in. Original printed wrappers (front hinge a little weak); cloth folding case. Provenance: Mark G. Ingham (signature on front wrapper). FIRST EDITION, one of the first 400 copies printed, as indicated in the "To the Reader" notice. The work was compiled by Jay Orear, A.H. Rosenfeld and R.A. Schluter. Recipients of these first copies were asked to submit their corrections and suggestions for improvement to the compilers. The text is a "reproduction, with some amplification, of [the compilers'] notes on lectures in Physics 262-3: Nuclear Physics, given by Enrico Fermi, Jan.-Juine 1949." Fermi had joined the faculty at the new Institute for Nuclear Studies of the University of Chicago in 1946 after completing his work on the Manhattan Project. He died unexpectedly in 1954 at the age of 53.
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FERMI, Enrico. Nuclear Physics. A Course Given by Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago. [Chicago: University of Chicago Press,] 1949. 8