Cosmic rays

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.