Cosmic Rays by L. Janossy - 1948

Oxford University Press. 1948. Hardcover. UsedGood. Hardcover; The International Series of Monographs on Physics; surplus libra ry copy with the usual stampings; reference number affixed to the spine; fa ding and shelf wear to exterior; light bumps to corners; fading to pages, w ith spotting to edges; spine slightly cocked; otherwise in good condition w ith clean text and tight binding. .

Oxford University Press, London, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition. Spine a trifle sunned. Previous owner's name blacked over. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science & Technology; Physics; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 23469. .

Janossy Press. Used - Like New. Used - Like New. Book is new and unread but may have minor shelf wear. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less (usually same day). Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks, rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry.

Oxford at the Clarendon Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1950. Second Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 454 pages .

Janossy Press, 2007. Second Edition Reprint. Paperback. Like New. 8x5x0. A nearly new copy, square and tight with no creases or splits. Contents fresh and clean, not showing any pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Thus a tidy book in very presentable condition.

Oxford University Press. Near Fine. 1950. Second Edition. Hardcover. Small name stamps on endpaper & edges; 10 plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 454 pages .

Janossy Press. paperback. New. 5x0x8. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

OXFORD, CLARENDON, 1948. EX LIBRARY, FIRST EDITION, ORIGINAL BLUE CLOTH, WATER STAINING TO FRONT BOARD, OTHERWISE A SOLID COPY, PRICED ACCORDINGLY.

Oxford : The Clarendon Press, 1950. Second edition. Series: The International Series of Monographs on Physics. Octavo (240 mm), publisher's green cloth over boards with gilt-lettered spine, in the dust jacket (lightly marked, chipped at corners and spine ends, sunned on spine and at top edges), ownership signature of Australian mathematical physicist Charles Johnson to front free-endpaper (endpapers with offsetting and mild spotting), [5], vi-xiii, [1], 454, followed by 10 b/w photographic plates; diagrams and tables in the text; top edges with spotting, contents clean, a good copy in the original dust jacket. An important work on cosmic radiation by Hungarian physicist Lajos Jánossy, first published in 1948 while Jánossy was professor and group leader of the cosmic rays research laboratory at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.

Urbana, Illinois: Clarendon Press, 1948. Hardcover. Fine. Medium octavo (24x16 cm). - xiii,424 pages. - Full dark blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Very fine. - With 6 plates, 9 tables, 129 figures and 3 appendices. - With ownership signature "S. Chandrasekhar" on the front free end-paper. - The Hungarian physicist LAJOS JANOSSY (1912-1968), adopted son of the renowned Marxist philosopher GYORGY (Georg) LUKACS (1885-1971), worked, focusing on astrophysics, in England and Ireland from 1936 to 1950. In 1950, he returned to Hungary to join the newly created Central Research Institute for Physics, which he directed from 1956 on. - The present work is based mostly on his pioneering experimental and theoretical work on cosmic rays. In 1950, he also published important research on particle showers, introducing the application of joint probability densities, now called Janossy densities, in the theory of random point processes. - SUBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR (1910-1995) is probably… Read More