NUCLEAR STRUCTURE: Volume I: Single-Particle Motion; Volume II: Nuclear Deformations.

First edition, first printing. Two volumes. Inscribed presentation copies from the joint Nobel Prize winning scientists to an Nordita colleague. Publisher's original dark blue (volume I) and brown (volume II) cloth with titles in blue and gilt, and silver and gilt to the upper boards and spine, in dustwrapper. Excellent near fine copies, the bindings square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's marks. Complete with the very good rubbed and nicked dustwrappers, that of volume II with a few small chips and tears. Publisher's flyer laid in to volume two, as issued.

Inscribed at the head of the front endpaper of volume one in blue ink "Til Peter Winge / med mange hilsner / Aage Bohr" next which Ben Mottelson has signed [in full] in black ink. Volume two is inscribed in blue ink at the head of the front endpaper "Til Peter / med mange hilsner / Aage" next to which Ben Mottelson has signed his first name. The recipient Peter Winge was a scientist and colleague of Bohr and Mottleson at The Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita) in Copenhagen. These volumes summarise a life's work on nuclear structure, the centerpiece being the work for which Bohr and Mottelson won the Nobel Prize in Physics. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1975 was awarded jointly to Aage Niels Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson and Leo James Rainwater "for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection".