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Einstein's Witches' Sabbath and the Early Solvay Councils : The Untold Story /
BEFORE WORLD WAR II there were no regular international physics conferences, with the notable exception of seven « SOLVAY COUNCILS ». The first Council in 1911 was the result of a miraculous chain of events. Impressed by Einstein's specific heat paper, Nernst wanted its quantum basis to be disc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Les Ulis :
EDP Sciences,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- THE FIRST PHYSICS COUNCIL
- Chapter 1 A very unlikely "Council"
- Chapter 2 An unprecedented project
- UNEXPECTED CONSEQUENCES OF THE COUNCIL
- Chapter 3 A game of musical chairs
- Chapter 4 Foundation of the International Solvay Institute for Physics
- Chapter 5 The second Physics Council
- Chapter 6 Foundation of the International Institute for Chemistry
- Chapter 7 The Solvay subsidies
- IMPACT OF THE GREAT WAR
- Chapter 8 The Physics Institute survives the storm
- Chapter 9 Epilogue: from "Solvay III" to "Solvay V"
- ANNEXES
- Annex 1 List of 52 Nobel laureates who took part in one (or in several) Solvay Councils between 1911 and 1933, or who benefitted from a Solvay research subsidy
- Annex 2 Archival sources relating to the works of Ernest Solvay
- Annex 3 Solvay's "Gravito-Materialitic" program
- Annex 4 The Black-Body Problem
- Annex 5 Planck's "missed" Nobel Prize
- Annex 6 The second Moroccan crisis and the Caillaux affair
- Annex 7 Royal patronage
- Annex 8 Essential points in the Rutherford- Thomson confrontation
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index