FIRST SOLVAY CONFERENCE - La Theorie du Rayonnement et les Quanta.
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FIRST
SOLVAY CONFERENCE - La Théorie du Rayonnement et les Quanta. Rapports et
Discussions de la Réunion tenue à Bruxelles, du 30 Octobre au 3 Novembre 1911
sous les Auspices de M. E. Solvay. Publiés par MM. P. Langevin et M. de
Broglie. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1912. Large 8vo (254 x 168mm). Half
title, illustrations and diagrams (some very light marginal browning). Modern
half blue leatherette and marbled boards, original blue printed wrappers bound
in (repair to verso of corner of upper wrapper, repair to rear endpaper). Provenance:
from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. THE FIRST AND ONLY EDITION
of the printed report of the proceedings of the first Solvay Conference which
proved to be a turning-pointing in modern physics. In this first conference,
Einstein came to early prominence as the second youngest participant at the age
of 32. Also included among the 18 leading scientists present were the director,
Ernest Solvay, Hendrik Lorentz, Max Planck, Ernest Rutherford, Marie Curie and
Henri Poincaré.
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