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Leon Rosenfeld : Physics, Philosophy, and Politics in the Twentieth Century.
Léon Rosenfeld (1904-1974) was a remarkable, many-sided physicist of exceptional erudition. He was at the center of modern physics and was well-known as Niels Bohr's close collaborator and spokesman. Besides he reflected deeply on the history and philosophy of science and its social role from...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore :
World Scientific,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Contents; List of Pictures; Introduction; Chapter 1. Physicist of the Second Quantum Generation; "You see, I was Belgian"; Paris 1926-1927: Physics and Socialism; Gottingen 1927-1929:The "Indeterminist" School; Rosenfeld Finds his Style in Physics; Two Approaches to Quantum Electrodynamics: Jordan versus Dirac; Zurich 1929-1930:The Pauli-Heisenberg Quantum Field Theory; Friendships; Chapter 2. Rosenfeld in Copenhagen; The Institute for Theoretical Physics; Assisting Bohr; Crisis in Quantum Theory; The "Small War"; Dirac, "the Ugly Duckling"; The Bohr-Rosenfeld paper; The EPR paper.
- Chapter 3. Physics, Philosophy, and Politics in the 1930sTrotsky in Copenhagen; Yvonne Cambresier; The Promised Land; Fascism and Nazism versus the Popular Front; Battling for the Ideological Rights to Complementarity; Bohr's French Connection; Dreary Times; Fission
- A Question of Priority; Chapter 4. Surviving the War in Utrecht; The Second World War; Uhlenbeck's Successor; Life in Holland under Nazi Occupation; Heisenberg's Visit; Hiding; Chapter 5. Cold War and Political Commitment; Dividing the World; Science, Socialism, and Peace; The End of the Popular Front.
- The History of the Social Relations of ScienceScientific Internationalism; "The Soviet Crisis"; The Maverick; Anglo-American Science Policy and Anti-Communism; Belgian Recognition; Rosenfeld versus Bohr; Chapter 6. Bohr's Cold Warrior; The Relationship between Science and Philosophy; Rosenfeld versus Bohm; "Strife about Complementarity"; Thaw in East-West Relations; Fock's Visit in Copenhagen; Epilogue; Bibliography; Abbreviations; Archival Document Collections; Books, Articles, Interviews, and Theses; Index.