The Principles of Quantum Mechanics
Oxford: Clarendon, 1935. xi, 297, [2] pages. Tall thick 8vo, gilt-lettered blue cloth, d.w. (price-clipped, sunned and a bit chipped). Oxford: Clarendon, 1935. Second edition, Bookplate and owner's name on the pastedown, else a fine clean copy in a very good dust wrapper. Dirac's most important contribution to "wave mechanics", the mathematical description of the atom worked out by Schroedinger. Dirac, who predicted the existence of antiparticles (i.e., the positron, discovered in 1932), shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with..... More