RARE "Cosmic Radiation" William Swann Hand Signed TLS Dated 1959 For Sale

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RARE "Cosmic Radiation" William Swann Hand Signed TLS Dated 1959:
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Up for sale a RARE! "Cosmic Radiation" William Swann Signed TLS Dated 1959. 

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William Francis Gray Swann (August

29, 1884 – January 29, 1962) was educated at Brighton Technical College and

the Royal College of Science from

which he obtained a B.Sc. in 1905. He worked as an Assistant Lecturer at

the University of Sheffield,

while simultaneously pursuing a doctorate at University College London,

from which he received a D.Sc. in 1910. Swann left Sheffield in 1913, when he

went to the United States to join

the Carnegie Institute,

becoming head of the Physical Division of the Department of Terrestrial

Magnetism. He later became a professor at the University of Minnesota,

then at the University of Chicago and Yale University. E. O. Lawrence, the 1939 Nobel Laureate in Physics, was one of

Swann's graduate students at the University of Minnesota.

In

1924 Swann was an Invited Speaker of the International

Congress of Mathematicians in Toronto. In 1927 at the age

of 43, he became the first director of the Bartol Research Foundation of

the Franklin Institute. Among

his first acts as Director was to arrange a contract to locate the Foundation

at Swarthmore College, which

is fairly close to Philadelphia. He continued

as Director of the Foundation until his retirement in 1959, when he was

replaced by Martin A. Pomerantz.

He

is particularly noted for his research into cosmic rays and high-energy physics. He produced over 250

publications, including his influential, popular book The Architecture

of the Universe (in 1934). The crater Swann on the Moon is

named after him. In addition to being a physicist, he was also known as an

accomplished cellist and he founded the Swarthmore Symphony Orchestra. He

retired in 1959. He died in 1962 in Swarthmore. 

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