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Quantum Generations : A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxfordshire :
Princeton University Press,
2002.
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| Edition: | 1st pbk. print. |
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.