Quantum generations — A history of physics in the twentieth century

📖 Auteur(s): Helge Kragh
🏢 Uitgever: Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 2002 (1st pbk. print)
📄 Aantal pagina’s: 494
📌 Conditie: Nieuwstaat
💬 Opmerking: Originally published: 1999. Meer informatie: Table of contents. Table of contents.
🗂️ Inhoud: Fin-de-siecle physics: a world picture in flux; The world of physics; Discharges in gases and what followed; Atomic architecture; The slow rise of quantum theory; Physics at low temperatures; Einstein's relativity, and others'; A revolution that failed; Physics in industry and war; Science and politics in the Weimar republic; Quantum jumps; The rise of nuclear physics; From two to many particles; Philosophical implications of quantum mechanics; Eddington's dream and other heterodoxies; Physics and the new dictatorships; Brain drain and brain gain; From uranium puzzles to Hiroshima; Nuclear themes; Militarization and megatrends; Particle discoveries; Fundamental theories; Cosmology and the renaissance of relativity; Elements of solid state physics; Engineering physics and quantum electronics; Science under attack; physics in crisis? Unifications and speculations; Nobel physics; A century of physics in retrospect.

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