Where Is Science Going?

PLANCK, Max; Preface by Albert Einstein.

Item Number: 15021

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1933.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Preface by Albert Einstein. Frontispiece of Planck. From the library of Melville Harrison Hatch with his signature and bookplate to inner pastedown. Harrison was an American entomologist who specialized in the study of beetles. His long career at the University of Washington was highlighted by the publication of the seminal, five-volume work Beetles of the Pacific Northwest and is responsible for the identification and naming of 13 species. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. A very nice example in the uncommon dust jacket with noted providence.

Max Planck was a German theoretical physicist whose work on quantum theory won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.He made many contributions to theoretical physics, but his fame as a physicist rests primarily on his role as an originator of quantum theory, which revolutionized human understanding of atomic and subatomic processes.