Atomic Quest: A Personal Narrative
New York: Oxford University Press, 1956.
First edition. xix, [i], 370 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth lettered in red and silver. Signed by Nobel laureate Arthur Holly Compton with an inscription to Jim Ozmont "I am happy that you find this book of mine worth reading. Best wishes for the years ahead! Cordially, Arthur Holly Compton June 14, 1957." Very Good with rubbing and toning to cloth, top edge of textblock bumped, in a Very Good dust jacket with a sunned spine panel, lightly toned and worn, faint vertical crease down back panel.
Arthur Holly Compton (1892–1962) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his earlier discovery of the scattering effect that would bear his name, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation. It was a sensational discovery at the time: the wave nature of light had been well-demonstrated, but the idea that light had both wave and particle properties was not easily accepted. He is also known for his leadership over the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago during the Manhattan Project.
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