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Quantum Generations : A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kragh, Helge, 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, 2002.
Edición:1st pbk. print.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.