Electronic Processes in Ionic Crystals

THE last decade has seen an increasing number of applications of modern theoretical physics to questions which are of appreciable technical importance Often such applications arise from problems which at an earlier stage of development were of interest for the investigation of more fundamental properties of atoms and electrons. Mott and Gurney's book on electrons in ionic crystals, of which the second edition is now available, is an excellent and perhaps the first monograph on what might be called applied theoretical physics.Electronic Processes in Ionic Crystals By N. F. Mott Dr. R. W. Gurney. (International Series of Monographs on Physics.) Second edition. Pp. xii + 276. (Oxford: Clanendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1948.) 25s. net.