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FERMI, Enrico. A collection of 44 offprints, mostly from Rendiconti Reale Accademia Nazionale de Lincei and Zeitschrift für Physik , including 8 duplicates. Most Rome and Berlin, 1922-1939. 8 o. Most disbound, some in original printed wrappers. As a general rule, early Fermi offprints are very rare. This is one of the largest collections of his offprints ever offered for sale. The collection covers chiefly his work in Italy before his immigration to the United States in 1939. Relativit... -- Sopra i fenomeni che avvengono in vicinanza di una linea oraria . Offprint from: Rendiconti Reale Accademia Nazionale de Lincei , Vol. XXXI, serie 5 a, 1 o sem, fasc. 1 o. Rome, 1922. FIRST EDITION, offprint issue. "In 1922, while still in Pisa, Fermi had obtained remarkable result in general relativity by showing that, in the vicinity of a world line, space in Euclidean. This theorem is Fermi's first accomplishment of permanent value; it is contained in the paper 'On the Phenomena Occuring near a World Line' " (Segrè, Enrico Fermi, Physicist , 22). The so-called "Fermi Coordinates" that Fermi introduced in this paper were extended by various other scientists. Fermi, Collected Papers, no. 3. Sopra la teoria di Stern della costante assoluta dell'entropia di un gas perfetto monoatomico . Offprint from: Rendiconti Reale Accademia Nazionale de Lincei , Vol. XXXII, serie 5 a, 2 o sem, fasc. 11 o. Rome, 1923. FIRST EDITION, offprint issue. Fermi's first paper on the entropy constant of the perfect monatomic gas. Fermi, Collected Papers, no. 16. Effetto di un campo magnetico alternato sopra la polarizzazione della luce di risonanza . Offprint from: Rendiconti Reale Accademia Nazionale de Lincei , Vol. I, serie 6 a, 1 o sem, fasc. 12 o. Rome, 1925. FIRST EDITION, offprint issue. Fermi's most important and successful undertaking in 1925 was the study of the depolarization of resonance radiation under the action of an alternating magnetic field undertaken by the two friends [i.e. Fermi and F. Rasetti] in collaboration. This is the first significant experimental work in which Fermi participated...This work atincipated by several years the extensive applications of radiofrequnecy to atomic spectroscopy, to which it is related." Segrè, Enrico Fermi, Physicist, 38-39.) Sulla quantizzazione del gas perfetto monoatomico . Offprint from: Rendiconti Reale Accademia Nazionale de Lincei , Vol. III, serie 6 a, 1 o sem, fasc. 3 o. Rome, 1926. FIRST EDITION, offprint issue. Zur Quantelung des idealen einatomigen Gases . Offprint from: Zeitschrift für Physik , Band 36, Heft 11/12. Berlin, 1926. FIRST EDITION, offprint issue. This is "probably his [Fermi's] most famous theoretical contribution, where he formulated the theory of an ideal gas of particles obeying the Paul exclusion principle, now designated in his honor as 'fermions' (F. Rasetti in Fermi, Collected Papers no. 31)..This paper was preceded by a short note in Italian. "It is well-known that Dirac developed this type of statistics independently of Fermi. Dirac's paper (see lot 67) was presented at the Royal Society on August 256, 1926, whereas Fermi's short notewas presented on February 7 and his longer paper was received by the editor of the 'Zeitschrift" on March 26. Thus both of Fermi's publication antedate Dirac's by an appreciable time. "Fermi statistics, which are applicable to electrons, protons, neutrons, and all particles of half integer spin, have a pervading importance in atomic and nuclear physics and in solid-state theory" (DSB). Zur Wellenmechanik des Strossvorganges . Offprint from: Zeitschrift für Physik , Band 40, Heft 5. Berlin, 1926. FIRST EDITION, offprint issue. "This paper is a very simple and perspicuous application of Born's wave theory of collisions, which had been published a few months before." (Fermi, Collected Papers, no. 36, p. 218. Quantum Mechanics and the Magnetic Moment of Atoms . Offprint from: Nature , no. 2981, vol. 118. 1926. FIRST EDITION, offprint i