Edité par Elsevier, 1972
ISBN 10 : 0444001174 ISBN 13 : 9780444001177
Vendeur : Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Etats-Unis
Etat : Good. 3rd. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Edité par Elsevier Publishing
Vendeur : Goldstone Rare Books, Llandybie, CARMS, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Good. Ex-Library Book. Has usual library markings Photograph available on request.
Edité par American Elsevier, New York, NY, 1972
ISBN 10 : 0444001174 ISBN 13 : 9780444001177
Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. 3rd Edition. 659 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. No dust jacket. NOTE: Foxing to page edges. A clean reading copy.
Edité par University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, 1951
Vendeur : Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, Etats-Unis
Etat : fair, ex-lib. 620, tables, appendix, index, fr bd weak, library stamps & pocket, bds & spine scuffed & edges worn, library call number on spine.
1962. Elsevier Publishing Company. Hardback. Book - VG. DJ - Good.
Edité par Elsevier Publishing, Stockholm/USA, 1962
Vendeur : The London Bookworm, East Sussex, Royaume-Uni
Cloth. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Second Revised and Enlarged Edition. Hardback. Ticks and underlining in pencil to some pages. Previous owners name sticker to inside cover. Mark to inside front cover from removal of old sellotape. Slightly sunned spine. Blue cloth with silver lettering. This book gave the history of the first fifty years of prize-giving written by prominent Swedish cionnaisseurs and of the prize-awarding activities of the five Nobel domains. The story of the achievements which had been honoured with Nobel Prizes was at the same to a very large degree a review of the remarkable progress made in the five Nobel domains. In the book was also incorporated a short biography of Alfred Nobel by the late professor Henrik Schuck, Sweidsh Academy, and once Chair-man of the Board of Directors of the Nobel Foundation; further an account of the birth of the Foundation given by one of its principal architects the late Ragnar Sohlman, collaborator and friend of Alfred Nobel and later executor of his will; finally the Executive Director of the Foundation since 1948, Nils K. Stahle, summarized its functions and activities. Now, about ten years later, a new issue in the English language, brought up to date by the same authors, is appearing at the Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam. Thus an account of six decades - 1901 - 1961 - of Nobel Prizes has been made available. 690 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).
Date d'édition : 1950
Vendeur : Antiq. F.-D. Söhn - Medicusbooks.Com, Marburg, Allemagne
Stockholm, Sohlmans Förl., 1950, 8°, 620 pp., 1 Portrait, orig. Leinenband. Mit Beiträgen von Liljestrand, G.; Österling, A.; Schou, A.; Schück, H.; Siegbahn, M.; Sohlman, R.; Stahle, N.K.; Westgren, A.
Edité par Stockholm: Sohlmans Forlag, [1950]., 1950
Vendeur : Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, Etats-Unis
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An interesting association copy. Appleton(1892-1965) won the Nobel Prize in 1947 for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton layer. Sir James Colquhoun Irvine (1877-1952), Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St. Andrews, was the recipient of the Longstaff medal of the Chemical Society of London and the Davy Medal of the Royal Society. He is known for his research on the chemistry of sugars. The T.L.s. is one and a half pages long, on stationery of the University of St. Andrews. In it Irvine points out several errors in the book, including errors in the references to his own work: "Éthe new world of Sugar Chemistry was opened out not by Purdie, but by myself and the scheme was detailed in a letter I sent to my esteemed Professor when I was a student in Leipsig. I have the correspondence still and in it Purdie offered me a salary out of his own pocket and full Laboratory costs to have a try at the scheme for a couple of years. Actually he did more than provide the material means, he did a vast amount of the reading on my behalf, and, in the end, rather against his will, we published the result conjointlyÉ' Octavo. 620 pp. Frontisportrait. Navy cloth with gilt spine and blindstamped medallion on front cover. Light shelfwear. Very good. First edition, Sir Edward Appleton's copy, with a Typed Letter signed by chemist Sir James Irvine laid in.
Edité par Stockholm Sohlmans Forlag 1950, 1950
Vendeur : Christian White Rare Books Ltd, Ilkley, YORKS, Royaume-Uni
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Inscribed on the occasion of his award of the Nobel Prize from the committee to Alexander Todd. Blue buckram binding embossed with Nobel's bust to the upper cover; inscribed on the marbled endpaper: 'With the Compliments of The Nobel Foundation Stockhold, Dec 10th. 1957.' A fine copy. Alexander Todd (1907-1997) was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on the synthesis of nucleotides - the hereditary material of cells. He was a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge - also the College of C P Snow, novelist and author of The Two Cultures - later serving as President of the Royal Society from 1975-1980. A splendid association copy. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.