Recollections and Reflections

New York: Macmillan Company, 1937. Very Good. New York: Macmillan Company, 1937. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's brown gilt-lettered cloth, grayish topstain; viii,[2],451pp.; portrait frontispiece, nine leaves of halftone plates. Corners bumped, spine gilt a bit flaky, ownership ex libris of the late chemist and bibliophile Sydney Ross to front pastedown, else a Very Good, bright and sound copy.

Memoirs of the physicist J.J. Thomson (1856-1940), awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906 after discovering the electron using cathode rays. Thomson also headed the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge, managing no fewer than ten future Nobel laureates during his career as an educator and researcher.