The Physical Basis of Ultrahigh Vacuum

P. A. Redhead, J.P. Hobson and E. V. Kornelsen London: Chapman and Hall . 1968 Pp. xi + 498. Price £5 5s. Despite the plethora of books published in science and engineering it is only about once in a decade or two that there is produced within a given discipline a book which is so outstanding that it is destined to become a ‘classic’. In the discipline of vacuum science and technology the last time such a work was published was in 1949 when Saul Dushman's Scientific Foundations of Vacuum Technique appeared.