Mimeographed Experimental Physics 290(f) Lectures.

£5,000 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

seminars by nobel prize winners A rare set of mimeographed lecture notes from an experimental physics course connected with Berkeley's Radiation Laboratory, with chapters by three Nobel Prize winners. Mimeographed lecture notes of this kind were made by students for themselves and their colleagues, and exist in very small numbers. We have located only two auction records for this set, the present one, sold in 2018, and a copy at Christie's in 2002. Berkeley's '290' physics courses are 'graduate level courses that feature a weekly seminar on physics topics', 'many of which are open to the public', generally meaning the research community (Berkeley website). The present lectures are all labelled '290(f)', what was then a course in experimental physics connected with the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory. Now known as the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, this research centre was established in 1931 by Ernest Lawrence and centred around his development of the cyclotron, a new and more powerful type of particle accelerator for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize. The laboratory has remained a leader in physics research up to the present day, and was responsible for numerous twentieth century breakthroughs, including electronic enrichment of uranium for the Manhattan Project, the discovery of the transuranic elements and the anti-proton, and measurement of the cosmic microwave background radiation. Taking place around 1950 (none of the reference sources listed in the text have p

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