The Kinetic Theory of Gases

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1930. 2d ed., rev. Octavo in grey-green cloth; xiv pages, 1 leaf, 178 pages, 1 leaf illustrations, diagrams 20 cm. Very good with minor foxing to edges and (mostly to) endpapers. Hardcover. ISBN: National Library: 007557420 LCCN: 40-31165

English translation of: Théorie cinétique des gaz. Kinetic theory of gases./ Eugène Bloch (1878 – 1944) was a French physicist and professor at the École Normale Supérieure, and at the Faculty of Science of the University of Paris. Jacinto Steinhardt's copy, with his signature to front paste-down. "Jacinto (Jay) Steinhardt was a pioneer in military operations research and a founding member of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA). He went on to serve as the society’s third president in 1954. Steinhardt was born in New York City and received all three of his degree locally at Columbia University. After earning his doctorate in chemistry in 1934, he became a National Research Fellow at the Physical-Chemical Institute in Copenhagen. He would go on to hold positions at the Physiological Laboratory in England, the Physical-Chemical Institute in Upsala, Sweden, and the Harvard Medical School. In 1938, he joined the National Bureau of Standards as a physical chemist."— informs.org