Navy cloth binding with gilt title on the spine and front board.

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For conditions, please view our photographs. A collector’s edition from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG. A true snapshot in time.

This formative and quality book was purchased by Jack’s father who was famous for his involvement in ‘heavy water’ and ‘The Manhattan Project’. Jack’s father studied the work of Professor Brown and incorporated much of Brown’s ideas into his own work at Cambridge.

Prof. Brown was born in Bath, NY, in 1892, and died in California, June 21, 1962, leaving his wife Lea (Pomana, CA), a daughter Eleanor Warner (Arlington, VA), and three sons, Charles (Canoga Park, CA), Eric (Midland, MI), and Kingsley (Sayre, PA). Before the second world war, he wrote a standard text, “The Fundamentals of Modern Physics”. During the War, he did magnetism research for the Navy. Through his skills in experimental physics, he built up the physics laboratories into modern facilities and then published a complete laboratory manual of the experimental exercises he designed, and was editor-in-chief of The Lloyd Williams Taylor Manual of Advanced Undergraduate Experiments in Physics. Much of his equipment and his lab exercises were used long after he retired in 1957. He received a special award from the National Association of Physics Teachers in 1961 in recognition of his contribution to education.