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John Stewart Bell and twentieth century physics : vision and integrity /

This work gives a non-mathematical account of Bell's upbringing in Belfast and his education. It describes his major contributions to quantum theory, but also his important work in the physics of accelerators, and nuclear and elementary particle physics.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Whitaker, Andrew, 1946- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a John Stewart Bell and Twentieth-​Century Physics; Copyright; Contents; 1. A Tough Start but a Good One; Belfast and politics; Family background; Family life; Early education; The war and the Tech; A year of transition; Queen's: The background; Student days; Early struggles with quantum theory; Early views on quantum theory; Last year at Queen's, and Peter Paul Ewald; 2. The 1950s: Progress on All Fronts; Harwell and Klaus Fuchs; Accelerators; Quantum theory 1: With particular attention to EPR; Quantum theory 2: With particular attention to Bohm and hidden variables 
505 8 |a Personal life in the 1950sBirmingham, Peierls, and CPT; Back to Harwell and to theoretical physics; Farewell to Harwell; 3. The 1960s: The Decade of Greatest Success; CERN; John Bell at CERN, and the neutrinos; Hidden variables and von Neumann: Bell's first great paper; Bell and local causality: Bell's second great paper; Bell's general views on quantum theory in the 1960s; CPT: Ramifications; Bell, gauge theory, and the weak interaction; Bell and particle physics in the 1960s; The 'anomaly': ABJ; Bell and quantum theory: The first responses; A great decade; 4. The 1970s: Interest Increases 
505 8 |a Early successes for Bell and for CERNBell's theorem: The first results; Bell and quantum theory in the 1970s; Bell and particle physics in the 1970s; 5. The 1980s: Final Achievements but Final Tragedies; Summary of the decade; Pasupathy, Bertlmann, and Rajaraman; Accelerator work in the 1980s; Results and thoughts on quantum theory in the 1980s; Honours and endings; 6. The Work Continues; Taking Bell's work forward; The birth of quantum information, and Bell's contribution; 7. Work of the Highest Calibre, and a Fine Life; References; Index 
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