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'''''Introduction to Solid State Physics''''', known colloquially as '''''Kittel''''' is a classic [[condensed matter physics]] textbook 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.}}</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 rival ''[[Ashcroft and Mermin]]'', the book is considered a standard textbook in condensed matter physics.

== Background ==