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The harvest of a century : discoveries of modern physics in 100 episodes /

Physics was the leading science of the twentieth century and the book retraces important discoveries, made between 1895 and 2001, in 100 self-contained Episodes. Each is a short story of the scientists involved, their time and their work. The book is richly illustrated by about 600 portraits, photog...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brandt, Siegmund
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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520 |a Physics was the leading science of the twentieth century and the book retraces important discoveries, made between 1895 and 2001, in 100 self-contained Episodes. Each is a short story of the scientists involved, their time and their work. The book is richly illustrated by about 600 portraits, photographs and figures. - ;Physics was the leading science of the twentieth century and the book retraces important discoveries, made between 1895 and 2001, in 100 self-contained episodes. Each is a short story of the scientists involved, their time, and their work. Together they form a mosaic of modern. 
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505 0 |a Preface; Prologue -- The Nineteenth-Century Heritage; 1 Röntgen's X Rays (1895); 2 Becquerel Discovers Radioactivity (1896); 3 Zeeman and Lorentz -- A First Glimpse at the Electron (1896); 4 The Discovery of the Electron (1897); 5 Marie and Pierre Curie -- Polonium and Radium (1898); 6 Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Rays (1899); 7 Max Planck and the Quantum of Action (1900); 8 Rutherford Finds the Law of Radioactive Decay (1900); 9 The Transmutation of Elements (1902); 10 Einstein's Light-Quantum Hypothesis (1905); 11 Einstein Creates the Special Theory of Relativity (1905) 
505 8 |a 12 Nernst and the Third Theorem of Thermodynamics (1905)13 Observing a Single Particle -- The Rutherford-Geiger Counter and Later Electronic Detectors (1908); 14 Jean Perrin and Molecular Reality (1909); 15 Millikan's Oil-Drop Experiment (1910); 16 The Atomic Nucleus (1911); 17 Tracks of Single Particles in Wilson's Cloud Chamber (1911); 18 Kamerlingh Onnes -- Liquid Helium and Superconductivity (1911); 19 Hess Finds Cosmic Radiation (1912); 20 Max von Laue -- X Rays and Crystals (1912); 21 Bragg Scattering (1912); 22 J.J. Thomson Identifies Isotopes (1912); 23 Bohr's Model of the Atom (1913) 
505 8 |a 24 Moseley and the Periodic Table of Elements (1913)25 The Franck-Hertz Experiment (1914); 26 Einstein Completes the General Theory of Relativity (1915); 27 Sommerfeld -- Spatial Quantization and Fine Structure (1916); 28 Nitrogen is Turned into Oxygen (1919); 29 Astronomers Verify General Relativity (1919); 30 Stern and Gerlach Observe Spatial Quantization (1922); 31 The Compton Effect -- The Light Quantum Gains Momentum (1923); 32 Matter Waves Proposed by de Broglie (1923); 33 Bose and Einstein -- A New Way of Counting (1924); 34 Bothe and Geiger -- Coincidence Experiments (1925) 
505 8 |a 35 Pauli's Exclusion Principle (1925)36 Spin (1925); 37 Heisenberg and the Creation of Quantum Mechanics (1925); 38 Dirac's Mechanics of q Numbers (1925); 39 Schrödinger Creates Wave Mechanics (1926); 40 Born's Probability Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (1926); 41 Fermi-Dirac Statistics -- Yet Another Way of Counting (1926); 42 Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and Bohr's Complementarity (1927); 43 Quantum Mechanics and Relativity -- The Dirac Equation (1928); 44 The Band Model of Conductors and Semiconductors (1928-31); 45 Hubble Finds that the Universe is Expanding (1929) 
505 8 |a 46 Pauli Presents His Neutrino Hypothesis (1930)47 Lawrence and the Cyclotron (1931); 48 Chadwick Discovers the Neutron (1932); 49 Anderson Discovers the Positron (1932); 50 Nuclear Reaction Brought About by Machine (1932); 51 Heisenberg on Nuclear Forces: Isospin (1932); 52 The Proton Displays an 'Anomalous' Magnetic Moment (1933); 53 Fermi's Theory of Beta Rays (1933); 54 Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie -- Artificial Radioactivity (1934); 55 Fermi Produces Radioactivity with Neutrons (1934); 56 Cherenkov Radiation Discovered (1934) and Explained (1937) 
505 8 |a 57 Prediction of the Meson (1934) -- Discovery of the Muon (1937) 
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