Apr 03, 2014 - Sale 2343

Sale 2343 - Lot 55

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DIRAC, PAUL ADRIEN MAURICE. The Principles of Quantum Mechanics. x, 257, [1] pages. 8vo, 236x156 mm, original cloth, spine rubbed; front endpapers browned, contents otherwise clean. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1930

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first edition. 'British theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is known within astronomy primarily for the hypothesis that certain ratios of fundamental constants . . . should not change as the Universe expands . . . his major work was on unifying quantum mechanics with relativity theory, which led to the notion of antiparticles' (BEA). Dirac received the 1933 Noble Prize in Physics for correctly predicting the existence of the positron. BEA, page 301.