Hartree (Douglas Rayner) "The ENIAC, an Electronic Computing Machine"

Hartree (Douglas Rayner) "The ENIAC, an Electronic Computing Machine", in Nature, vol.158, pp.500-506, ex-library copy with ink-stamps, library rexine, spine lettered in gilt, 1946; and vol. for the years, 1952, 1959, 1960, and 1967 for the same periodical, 4to (6) *** The first international scientific publication describing the ENIAC, the first large-scale electronic computer. Other articles of note in the other volumes include: Rosalyn S. Yalow and Solomon A. Berson's "Assay of Plasma Insulin in Human Subjects by Immunological Methods", which introduces techniques for measuring insulin in human plasma; Carl Sagan and Harold Morowitz's "Life in the Clouds of Venus" explores the possibility of extraterrestrial life in planetary atmospheres; and Francis Crick and William Cochran's "Evidence for the Pauling-Corey Alpha-Helix in Synthetic Polypeptides".

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