Introduction to Solid State Physics

Introduction to Solid State Physics
Second edition (1956)
AuthorCharles Kittel
LanguageEnglish
Subject
PublisherJohn Wiley and Sons
Publication date
1953 (1st ed.)
Publication placeUnited States
Pages
  • 396 (1st ed.)
  • 680 (8th ed.)
ISBN978-1-119-45416-8
OCLC787838554
530.4
LC ClassQC176.K5
Identifiers refer to the 8th edition of the book, printed in 2005, unless otherwise noted

Introduction to Solid State Physics, known colloquially as Kittel, is a classic condensed matter physics textbook written by American physicist Charles Kittel in 1953.[1] The book has been highly influential and has seen widespread adoption; Marvin L. Cohen remarked in 2019 that Kittel's content choices in the original edition played a large role in defining the field of solid-state physics.[2] It was also the first proper textbook covering this new field of physics.[3] The book is published by John Wiley and Sons and, as of 2018, it is in its ninth edition and has been reprinted many times as well as translated into over a dozen languages, including Chinese, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish. In some later editions, the eighteenth chapter, titled Nanostructures, was written by Paul McEuen. Along with its competitor Ashcroft and Mermin, the book is considered a standard textbook in condensed matter physics.

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  2. ^ Cohen, Marvin L.; Cohen, Morrel H. (1 October 2019). "Charles Kittel". Physics Today. 72 (10): 73. Bibcode:2019PhT....72j..73C. doi:10.1063/PT.3.4326. ISSN 0031-9228. …was not only the dominant text for teaching in the field, it was on the bookshelf of researchers in academia and industry throughout the world. In many ways, his choice of content defined solid-state physics.
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