Determination of the Surface-Tension of Water

by the Method of Jet Vibration by Niels Bohr

$9,400 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

First edition · Signed

FIRST EDITION OFFPRINT, PRESENTATION COPY, of Bohr's first published scientific paper, written while he was a 20-year-old student at Copenhagen University. Inscribed by Bohr in Danish on front wrapper to Poul Heegaard, mathematician and professor at Copenhagen University. In original wrappers. In February 1905 the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters announced a prize concerning Lord Rayleigh’s 1879 theory that the surface tension of liquids

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