Textbook and Notes from Oppenheimer's Physics 221 Class
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1949.
Textbook and manuscript notes relating to Robert Oppenheimer's Physics 221 class at Berkeley. From the collection of physicist Mark Jakobson, who earned his PhD at Berkeley in 1951. Textbook consists of B. Peters' mimeographed notes from Oppenheimer's 1939 quantum mechanics class, this edition published September 1948 by the University of California Press and annotated by Jakobson. Second volume contains Jakobson's manuscript notes and worksheets on blank sheets.
Prong bound in Smead pressboard, manuscript title labels dated 1949 to front covers. Peters' notes are printed and paginated recto only; 138 pp. Jakobson's notes are written recto only and unpaginated; some are annotated with red correction marks, presumably by a teaching assistant. Near Fine with moderate wear and light toning to covers; interiors clean. Textbook scarce, with just 6 OCLC listings.
Robert Oppenheimer's career at Berkeley began in 1927 when he accepted an offer of an associate professorship of physics. There were no English-language textbooks on quantum mechanics at the time, so he eventually cobbled one together from the notes of Bernard Peters, a German immigrant who completed his doctorate under Oppenheimer. The textbook was still in use ten years later and was purchased by Mark Jakobson, who also completed his doctorate under Oppenheimer and worked at Berkeley's Radiation Laboratory before returning to his home state of Montana.
Price: $8,800