Early 20th Century

Rare example of the foundation monograph by Nobel Laureate Max Born setting out the basis of the modern study of lattice dynamics. This work...

By: Born, Max

G. F. C. Searle was a legend at the Cavendish laboratory, in charge of delivering practical physics instruction for about half a century from 1890. ...

By: Searle, G. F. C.

F. H. Newman is best known for his joint authorship with G. F. C. Searle of their long-running textbook on 'Properties of Matter'.  His less...

By: Newman, F. H.

Owen W Richardson was major figure in British science in the first half of the 20th century, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1928 for his...

By: Richardson, O. W.

In 1924 Manne Siegbahn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, uncommon for a Swede and even more uncommonly he was also in one of the few father and...

By: Siegbahn, Manne

German edition of Planck's 'classic' text on thermodynamics, first published in 1897, from one of the pioneers of modern physics 

By: Planck, Max