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{{shortShort description|Classic textbook in condensed matter physics by Charles Kittel}}

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| name = Introduction to Solid State Physics

| author = [[Charles Kittel]]

| image = KittelFile:Introduction solidto stateSolid coverState smallPhysics.jpg

| caption = CoverSecond ofedition the book's 8th edition(1956)

| pub_date = {{plainlist|1953 (1st ed.)

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* 1953 (1st ed.)

* 1956 (2nd ed.)

* 2005 (8th ed.)

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| subject = {{hlist|[[Condensed matter physics]]|[[Solid state physics]]}}

| language = English

| country = [[United States]]

| publisher = [[John Wiley and Sons]]

| congress = QC176.K5

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* 396 (1st ed.)

* 617 (2nd ed.)

* 680 (8th ed.)

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'''''Introduction to Solid State Physics''''', known colloquially as '''''Kittel''''', is a classic [[condensed matter physics]] textbook originally written by American physicist [[Charles Kittel]] in 1953.<ref name=chambersAlt /> 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]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Cohen|first1=Marvin L.|last2=Cohen|author1-link=Marvin L. Cohen|first2=Morrel H.|author2-link=Morrel H. Cohen|date=2019-10-01|title=Charles Kittel|url=https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4326|journal=[[Physics Today]]|volume=72|issue=10|pages=73|doi=10.1063/PT.3.4326|bibcode=2019PhT....72j..73C|issn=0031-9228|quote=…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.|doi-access=free}}</ref> It was also the first proper textbook covering this new field of physics.<ref name=Ehrenreich /> 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.

== Background ==

Kittel received his PhD from the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] in 1941 under his advisor [[Gregory Breit]].<ref name=cohenObit /> Before being promoted to professor of physics at [[University of California, Berkeley|UC Berkeley]] in 1951, Kittel held several other positions,. includingHe workworked for the [[Naval Ordnance Laboratory]] from 1940 to 1942, he was a research physicist in the US Navy until 1945, worked at the [[Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT]] from 1945 to 1947, and at [[Bell Labs]] from 1947 to 1951, and was a visiting associate professor at UC BerkleyBerkeley from 1950 until his promotion.<ref name=cohenObit />

[[Henry Ehrenreich]] has noted that before the first edition of ''Introduction to Solid State Physics'' came out in 1953, there were no other textbooks on solidthe state physics,subject; rather, the young field's study material was spread across several prominent articles and treatises.<ref name=Ehrenreich /> The field of solid state physics was very new at the time of writing and was defined by only a few treatises that, in the Ehrenreich's view, expounded rather than explained the topics and were not suitable as textbooks.<ref name=Ehrenreich />

== Content ==

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|''Dislocations''

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|''Alloys''

|[[Hume-Rothery rules]], [[electrical conductivity]], [[Kondo effect]]

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== Reception ==

[[Marvin L. Cohen]] and [[Morrel H. Cohen]], in an obituary for Kittel in 2019, remarked that the original book "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",<ref name=cohenObit>{{Cite journal|last1=Cohen|first1=Marvin L.|last2=Cohen|author1-link=Marvin L. Cohen|first2=Morrel H.|author2-link=Morrel H. Cohen|date=2019-10-01|title=Charles Kittel|url=https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4326|journal=[[Physics Today]]|volume=72|issue=10|pages=73|doi=10.1063/PT.3.4326|bibcode=2019PhT....72j..73C|issn=0031-9228|doi-access=free}}</ref> though they did not provide any time frame on when it may have been surpassed as the dominant text. They also noted that Kittel's content choices played a large role in defining the field of [[solid-state physics]].<ref name=cohenObit />

The book is a classic textbook in the subject and has seen use as a comparative benchmark in the reviews of other books in condensed matter physics.<ref name=chambersAlt>{{Cite journal|last=Chambers|first=R. G.|author-link=Robert G. Chambers|date=12 June 1969|title=Alternative to Kittel|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/224983b0|journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]|language=en|volume=224|issue=5223|pages=983|doi=10.1038/224983b0|bibcode=1969Natur.224..983C|s2cid=41544342|issn=1476-4687|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name=Ehrenreich>{{Cite journal|last=Ehrenreich|first=Henry|author-link=Henry Ehrenreich|date=19 August 1977|title=Solid State: A New Exposition|url=https://www.science.sciencemag.org/contentdoi/19710.1126/science.197.4305/.753.1a|journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]]|language=en|volume=197|issue=4305|pages=753|doi=10.1126/science.197.4305.753|issn=0036-8075|pmid=17790767|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In a 1969 review of another book, [[Robert G. Chambers]] noted that there were not many textbooks covering these topics, as "since 1953, Kittel's classic ''Introduction to Solid State Physics'' has dominated the field so effectively that few competitors have appeared", noting that the third edition continues that legacy. Before continuing, the reviewer noted that the book was too long for some uses and that less thorough works would be welcome.<ref name=chambersAlt />

* Several notable reviews of the first edition were published in 1954, including [[Arthur James Cochran Wilson]],<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wilson|first=A. J. C.|author-link=Arthur James Cochran Wilson|date=1 February 1954|title=Introduction to Solid-State Physics by C. Kittel|url=http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S0365110X54002666|journal=[[Acta Crystallographica]]|volume=7|issue=2|pages=224|doi=10.1107/S0365110X54002666|issn=0365-110X|doi-access=free|bibcode=1954AcCry...7Q.224W }}</ref> [[Leslie Fleetwood Bates]],<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bates|first=L. F.|author-link=Leslie Fleetwood Bates|date=1 January 1954|title=Introduction to Solid State Physics by C. Kittel|url=http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S0365110X54000448|journal=[[Acta Crystallographica]]|volume=7|issue=1|pages=144|doi=10.1107/S0365110X54000448|issn=0365-110X|doi-access=free|bibcode=1954AcCry...7..144B }}</ref> and [[Kenneth Standley]],<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Standley|first=K. J.|author-link=Kenneth Standley|date=April 1954|title=Introduction to solid state physics|url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0022509654900277|journal=[[Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids]]|language=en|volume=2|issue=3|pages=213|doi=10.1016/0022-5096(54)90027-7|url-access=subscription}}</ref> among others.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Muldawer|first=Leonard|date=October 1953|title=Introduction to solid state physics|url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0016003253906243|journal=[[Journal of the Franklin Institute]]|language=en|volume=256|issue=4|pages=387–388|doi=10.1016/0016-0032(53)90624-3|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Dexter|first=David L.|date=November 1953|title=Introduction to Solid State Physics|url=http://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.1933590|journal=[[American Journal of Physics]]|language=en|volume=21|issue=8|pages=650|doi=10.1119/1.1933590|bibcode=1953AmJPh..21..650K|issn=0002-9505|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Masi|first=J. F.|date=1 August 1954|title=Introduction to Solid State Physics|url=http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.3061720|journal=[[Physics Today]]|language=en|volume=7|issue=8|pages=18–19|doi=10.1063/1.3061720|bibcode=1954PhT.....7h..18K|s2cid=121571376 |issn=0031-9228|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|author=anonymous|date=14 August 1954|title=Introduction to Solid State Physics by Prof. Charles Kittel. Pp. xiii + 396. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1953.) 56s. net.|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/174287a0|journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]|language=en|volume=174|issue=4424|pages=287|doi=10.1038/174287a0|s2cid=5520806|issn=1476-4687|doi-access=free}}</ref>

* [[Gwyn Owain Jones]] reviewed the book in 1955.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Jones|first=G. O.|author-link=Gwyn Owain Jones|date=January 1955|title=Review of Introduction to Solid State Physics|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43423448|journal=Science Progress (1933- )|volume=43|issue=169|pages=129|jstor=43423448|issn=0036-8504}}</ref>

* The second edition of the book was reviewed by [[Robert W. Hellwarth]] in 1957<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hellwarth|first=R. W.|author-link=Robert W. Hellwarth|date=June 1957|title=Introduction to Solid State Physics|url=http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.3060399|journal=[[Physics Today]]|language=en|volume=10|issue=6|pages=43–44|doi=10.1063/1.3060399|bibcode=1957PhT....10f..43K|issn=0031-9228|url-access=subscription}}</ref> and [[Leslie Fleetwood Bates]],<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bates|first=L. F.|author-link=Leslie Fleetwood Bates|date=July 1957|title=Review of Introduction to Solid State Physics Second edition|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43424566|journal=Science Progress (1933- )|volume=45|issue=179|pages=557–558|jstor=43424566|issn=0036-8504}}</ref> among others.<ref>{{Cite journal|author=anonymous|date=December 1956|title=Introduction to solid state physics|url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0016003256907037|journal=[[Journal of the Franklin Institute]]|language=en|volume=262|issue=6|pages=517|doi=10.1016/0016-0032(56)90703-7|arxiv=2101.01780}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Woolley|first=J.C.|date=January 1957|title=Introduction to solid state physics|url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0022509657900510|journal=[[Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids]]|language=en|volume=6|issue=1|pages=83|doi=10.1016/0022-5096(57)90051-0|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Jones|first=H.|date=1957-05-01|title=Introduction to Solid State Physics by C. Kittel|url=http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S0365110X57001280|journal=[[Acta Crystallographica]]|volume=10|issue=5|pages=390|doi=10.1107/S0365110X57001280|issn=0365-110X|doi-access=free|bibcode=1957AcCry..10..390J }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Fan|first=H. Y.|date=May 1957|title=Introduction to Solid State Physics|url=http://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.1934457|journal=[[American Journal of Physics]]|language=en|volume=25|issue=5|pages=330|doi=10.1119/1.1934457|bibcode=1957AmJPh..25..330K|issn=0002-9505|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

* The third edition of the book also received reviews in 1967,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Walker|first=Charles T.|date=24 February 1967|editor-last=Kittel|editor-first=Charles|title=Solid State Physics over 13 Years|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1720868|journal=Science|volume=155|issue=3765|pages=991|doi=10.1126/science.155.3765.991.b |jstor=1720868|s2cid=239828066 |issn=0036-8075|url-access=subscription}}</ref> inlcudingincluding one by [[Donald F. Holcomb]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Holcomb|first=Donald F.|author-link=Donald F. Holcomb|date=June 1967|title=Introduction to Solid State Physics|url=http://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.1974177|journal=[[American Journal of Physics]]|language=en|volume=35|issue=6|pages=547–548|doi=10.1119/1.1974177|bibcode=1967AmJPh..35..547K|issn=0002-9505|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

* A German translation of the book has also received several reviews.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ondracek|first=Gerhard|date=December 1975|title=Einführung in die Festkörperphysik|url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0022311575901282|journal=Journal of Nuclear Materials|language=de|volume=58|issue=3|pages=363|doi=10.1016/0022-3115(75)90128-2|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=1975|title=Einführung in die Festkörperphysik. Von Ch. Kittel. 3. erweiterte und verbesserte Auflage, 519 Bilder, 59 Tabellen, 877 Seiten. R. Oldenbourg Verlag München-Wien, John Wiley u. Sons GmbH Frankfurt 1973, DM 72,-|url=http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/piuz.19750060409|journal=Physik in unserer Zeit|language=de|volume=6|issue=4|pages=130|doi=10.1002/piuz.19750060409|bibcode=1975PhuZ....6S.130.|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Schöpf|first=H.-G.|date=1971|title=Ch. Kittel, Einführung in die Festkörperphysik. 2. verb. Aufl. 744 S. m. 464 Abb. u. 49 Tab. München/Wien 1969. R. Oldenbourg Verlag. Preis geb. DM 65,–|url=http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/zamm.19710510128|journal=ZAMM - Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik|language=de|volume=51|issue=1|pages=71|doi=10.1002/zamm.19710510128|bibcode=1971ZaMM...51...71S|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Schmidt|first=G.|date=1977|title=Kittel, C., Einführung in die Festkörperphysik, 3. erweiterte und verbesserte Auflage, München-Wien. R. Oldenbourg Verlag. 1973. 877 S., 519 Abb., 59 Tabellen .|url=http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/zamm.19770570220|journal=ZAMM - Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik|language=de|volume=57|issue=2|pages=128|doi=10.1002/zamm.19770570220|bibcode=1977ZaMM...57..128S|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

== Publication history ==

As of 2018, the book has nine editions, many different reprints and [[eBook]]s for two editions, and has been translated into other several languages, including Chinese, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish. There are reprints and foreign translations published in other countries, but all nine editions were published originally by [[John Wiley and Sons]] in the United States. In addition to it's print editions and foreign translations, Wiley has also released an [[eBook]] of the 8th edition in 2018 with {{ISBN|978-1-119-45618-6}}.

=== Original editions ===

* {{cite book |last1=Kittel |first1=Charles |title=Introduction to solid state physics |date=1953 |publisher=Wiley |___location=New York |pages=396 |oclc=859669173 |edition=1st |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/introduction-to-solid-state-physics/oclc/859669173?referer=br&ht=edition |language=English}}

* {{cite book |last1=Kittel |first1=Charles |title=Introduction to solid state physics. |date=1956 |publisher=Wiley |___location=New York |pages=617 |oclc=746139663 |edition=2nd |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/introduction-to-solid-state-physics/oclc/746139663?referer=br&ht=edition |language=English}}

* {{Cite book|last=Kittel|first=Charles|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/introduction-to-solid-state-physics/oclc/1159631475?referer=di&ht=edition|title=Introduction to solid state physics|date=1966|edition=3rd |publisher=Wiley|___location=New York ; London|language=English|oclc=1159631475|pages=613}}

* {{cite book |last1=Kittel |first1=Charles |title=Introduction to solid state physics |date=1971 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |___location=New York |isbn=978-0-471-49021-0 |pages=766 |oclc=802643946 |edition=4th |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/introduction-to-solid-state-physics/oclc/802643946?referer=br&ht=edition |language=English}}

* {{cite book |last1=Kittel |first1=Charles |title=Introduction to solid state physics |date=1976 |publisher=Wiley |___location=New York |isbn=978-0-471-49024-1 |pages=673 |oclc=908887143 |edition=5th |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/introduction-to-solid-state-physics/oclc/908887143?referer=br&ht=edition |language=English}}

* {{cite book |last1=Kittel |first1=Charles |title=Introduction to solid state physics |date=1986 |publisher=Wiley |___location=New York |isbn=978-0-471-87474-4 |pages=646 |oclc=797201261 |edition=6th |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/introduction-to-solid-state-physics/oclc/797201261?referer=br&ht=edition |language=English}}

* {{cite book |last1=Kittel |first1=Charles |title=Introduction to solid state physics|date= 1996|publisher=Wiley |___location=New York |isbn=978-0-471-11181-8|oclc=263625446|edition=7th |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/introduction-to-solid-state-physics/oclc/263625446?referer=br&ht=edition |language=English|pages=673}}

* {{cite book |last1=Kittel |first1=Charles |title=Introduction to solid state physics |date=2005|publisher=Wiley |___location=New York|isbn=978-0-471-68057-4 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/introduction-to-solid-state-physics/oclc/787838554?referer=br&ht=edition |edition=8th |language=English|pages = 680|oclc=787838554 }}

* {{cite book |last1=Kittel |first1=Charles |last2=McEuen|author2-link=Paul McEuen |first2=Paul |title=Introduction to solid state physics |date=2018 |publisher=Wiley |___location=New Jersey |isbn=978-1-119-45416-8 |pages=692 |oclc=1097548279 |edition=Global ed.,9th |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/introduction-to-solid-state-physics/oclc/1097548279?referer=br&ht=edition |language=English}}

=== Reprints ===

{{Dynamic list}}

* {{cite book |last1=Kittel |first1=Charles |title=Introduction to solid state physics |date=1954|orig-year=1953|publisher=John Wiley and Sons |___location=New York |edition=1st |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/introduction-to-solid-state-physics/oclc/1123251585?referer=br&ht=edition|oclc=1123251585|language=English|pages=396}}

* {{cite book |last1=Kittel |first1=Charles |title=Introduction to solid state physics |date=1967 |publisher=Wiley |pages=648 |edition=3rd |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/introduction-to-solid-state-physics/oclc/230149869?referer=br&ht=edition |language=English|___location=New York|oclc=230149869 }}

* {{cite book |last1=Kittel |first1=Charles |title=Introduction to solid state physics |date=1987 |publisher=Wiley Eastern Ltd. |___location=New delhi |pages=599 |oclc=772488914 |edition=6th |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/introduction-to-solid-state-physics/oclc/772488914?referer=br&ht=edition |language=English}}

* {{Cite book|last=Kittel|first=Charles|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/introduction-to-solid-state-physics/oclc/730010889?referer=di&ht=edition|title=Introduction to solid state physics|date=2011|publisher=Wiley|isbn=978-0-471-41526-8|___location=Hoboken, NJ|language=English|oclc=730010889|edition=8th|pages=680}}

* {{cite book |last1=Kittel |first1=Charles |title=Introduction to solid state physics |date=2013 |publisher=Wiley |___location=New Jersey |isbn=978-0-471-41526-8 |edition=8th |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/introduction-to-solid-state-physics/oclc/820453856?referer=br&ht=edition |language=English|pages=680|oclc=820453856 }}

* {{cite book |last1=Kittel |first1=Charles |last2=McEuen|author2-link=Paul McEuen |first2=Paul |title=Introduction to solid state physics |date=2015 |publisher=Wiley |___location=New Delhi |isbn=978-81-265-3518-7 |pages=680 |oclc=987438137 |edition=8th |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/introduction-to-solid-state-physics/oclc/987438137?referer=br&ht=edition |language=English}}

=== Foreign translations ===

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|Mahmūd Mukhtār

|1968

|Maktabat al-Nahdah al-Misriyah nushir haḍa al-kitạb maʻah muassasat Frankilīn ; Mūassasat Frankilīn

|al-Qāhirah; al-Qāhirah; New York

|{{oclc|18156712}}

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== See also ==

{{Portal|Books|Physics}}

* [[Bloch's theorem]]

* [[List of textbooks on classical mechanics and quantum mechanics]]

* [[List of textbooks in electromagnetism]]

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== External links ==

* {{Cite web|title=Introduction to Solid State Physics, 8th Edition {{!}} Wiley|url=https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Introduction+to+Solid+State+Physics%2C+8th+Edition-p-9780471415268|access-date=2020-11-02|website=Wiley.com|language=en-us}}

* {{Cite web|title=Remembering Charles Kittel {{!}} UC Berkeley Physics|url=https://physics.berkeley.edu/news-events/news/20190516/remembering-charles-kittel|access-date=2020-11-02|website=physics.berkeley.edu|archive-date=17 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190517172644/https://physics.berkeley.edu/news-events/news/20190516/remembering-charles-kittel|url-status=dead}}

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