Category: Science

Image for United States Atomic Energy Commission: In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer. I. Transcript of Hearing before Peronnel Security Board, and II. Texts of Principal Documents and Letters of Personnel Security Board General Manager Commissioners, together with program for a lecture by Martin J. Sherwin titled Oppenheimer's Legacy: Science and Government in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons, February 1, 2006, at CalTech. The program is signed by David Baltimore, 1975 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine and President of Caltech from 1997 to 2006, and panelist who discussed the historical and ethical ramifications of the creation of the atomic bomb with the lecturer. Also included is a program for an October 15, 2003 lecture by Baltimore, Viruses, Viruses, Viruses.

United States Atomic Energy Commission: In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer. I. Transcript of Hearing before Peronnel Security Board, and II. Texts of Principal Documents and Letters of Personnel Security Board General Manager Commissioners, together with program for a lecture by Martin J. Sherwin titled Oppenheimer's Legacy: Science and Government in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons, February 1, 2006, at CalTech. The program is signed by David Baltimore, 1975 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine and President of Caltech from 1997 to 2006, and panelist who discussed the historical and ethical ramifications of the creation of the atomic bomb with the lecturer. Also included is a program for an October 15, 2003 lecture by Baltimore, Viruses, Viruses, Viruses.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: United States Government Printing Office : 1954

Seller ID: 283

1954 ORIGINAL TRANSCRIPT AND TEXTS OF PRINCIPAL DOCUMENTS OF THE FAMOUS US GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL SECURITY BOARD HEARING OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER. Two 9 inches tall books in printed gray paper covers, the transcript 1 1/2 inches thick, the texts of documents stapled, fine--in pristine condition; together with program for a lecture by Tufts University historian Martin J. Sherwin, Oppenheimer's Legacy: Science and Government in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons, Feburary 1, 2006, at CalTech, signed by David Baltimore [with] program for an October 15, 2003 lecture by Baltimore, Nobel laureate and presi...
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Atomic Medicine. The Atom Knocks at the Doctor's Door

By: Behrens, Charles F.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Thomas Nelson and Sons : 1949

Seller ID: 373

SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY OF LANDMARK FIRST TEXT ON ATOMIC MEDICINE WRITTEN DURING THE ATOMIC AGE. Small Quarto black cloth boards, red images of atom and caduceus on cover, bookplates of E. Dale Trout front paste-down. Inscribed and signed by editor on ffep, Inscribed to E. Dale Trout with cordial regards & high esteem, Charles F BEhrens/14 Oct, 1949. Followed by inscription by recipient, I first met Behrens when we installed xray equipment in the first new buildings of the Naval Medical Center in Behtesda--really out in the country at that time. From that time to his death I ehjoyed knowing an...
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Imagination and idealism in the Medical Sciences

By: Herter, Christian A.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Chicago, American Medical Association : 1910

Seller ID: 1279

1910 LECTURE BY PIONEERING AMERICAN PHYSICIAN SCIENTIST TO COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL STUDENTS INSCRIBED TO NOTED ARTIST WHO WOULD LATER MARRY HIS DAUGHTER. 7 3/4 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to cover, inscribed on front free endpaper to Sergeant Kendall from C. A. Herter, Jan 27, 1910. 40 pp. Light wear to spine ends and cover corners, light foxing to endpapers, very good in custom archival mylar cover. The text is an address delivered to the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, September 23, 1909, at the opening of the medical school. The lecture...
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Cortisone Illustrated with Photographs

By: Kendall, Edward C.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1971

Seller ID: 1262

MEMOIRS ON DISCOVERY OF ADRENAL HORMONES BY NOBELIST EDWARD KENDALL , INSCRIBED TO PRINCETON CHEMIST WHO RECEIVED MEDAL OF FREEDOM. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt author's signature to cover, gilt title to spine, incscribe on front free endpaper, It is a pleasure to place this volume in the hands of Emily and Charlie Symth [sic.]./ Edward C. Kendall/ April 7, 1971. [xi], 175 pp, photographic illustrations, very good in very good price-clipped jacket. EDWARD CALVIN KENDALL (1886 - 1972) was an American chemist.His most notable discovery was the isolation of thyroxine. He ...
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The Harveian Oration delivered at the Royal College of physicians, October 18th, 1886

By: Pavy, Frederick W.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, J. & A. Churchill : 1886

Seller ID: 629

1886 HARVEIAN LECTURE TO ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS BY FREDERICK PAVY, PIONEER INVESTIGATOR OF DIABETES. 7 inches tall hardcover, publisher's blue pebbled cloth binding, gilt title and ruling to cover, institutional bookplate to front paste-down, ink inscription top of title page, With Dr. Pavy's compts. institutional library handstamp to verso of title page, 51 pp, very good in custom archival mylar cover. THE HARVEIAN ORATION is a yearly lecture held at the Royal College of Physicians of London. It was instituted in 1656 by William Harvey, discoverer of the systemic circulation. Harvey made...
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The Development of Modern Medicine, An Interpretation of the Social and Scientific Factors Involved

By: Shryock, Richard Harrison

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf : 1947

Seller ID: 719

LANDMARK MONOGRAPH ON THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN ITS SOCIAL AND SCIENTIFIC CONTEXT. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red cloth binding, blindstamped with staff of Asclepius to front cover, gilt title to spine, top edge stained red, xv, 457 pp, xv, black & white illustrations, corners bumped, spine faded, previous owner signature front endpaper, very good minus, no dust jacket. GARRISON-MORTON No. 6433. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1936, revised edition, 1947, translated into French, German and Japanese. SHRYOCK, RICHARD HARRISON (1893 - 1972). Shryock was one of the...
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In Their Wisdom

By: Snow CP;

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1974

Seller ID: 126

FIRST PRINTING OF C. P. SNOW NOVEL IN THEIR WISDOM SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 345 pages, red cloth binding, very good, in price-clipped very good dust jacket. Inscribed/dated front free endpaper by previous owner and signed on title page by author. FROM THE DUST JACKET FLAP: 'Born in Leicester, England, in 1905, C. P. Snow was educated at Leicester University College and then at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he held a Fellowship in physics and later became Tutor. His first published works were scientific papers, particularly on infra-red investigation of molecular stru...
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The Book of the Jacob Wendell Scholars

By: Wendell, William G.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Boston, D. B. Updike, Merrymount Press : 1925

Seller ID: 664

1925 COMMEMORATIVE BOOK HONORING HARVARD COLLEGE--COPY OF FORMER PRIZE RECIPIENT WHO BECAME NOTED MOLECULAR BIOLOGIST. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, burgundy cloth binding, gilt title anc Harvard seal to cover, gilt title to spine, signature of Jeffries Wyman Jr./ London 1925 (Oct) to front free endpaper, [xii], 90 pp, engravings of Jacob and Barrett Wendell, statement that 150 copies were printed by D.B. Updike, Merrymount Press, Boston, July 1925. Sunning to cover and spine, 1/4 inch spot back cover, otherwise very good. Laid in: TLS from William G. Wendell (1888-1968) to Jeffries Wyman Jr (1...
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Category: Science