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Erwin Schrödinger and the quantum revolution / John Gribbin.
Van Pelt Library QC16.S265 G75 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gribbin, John, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schrödinger, Erwin, 1887-1961.
- Schrödinger, Erwin.
- Physicists--Austria--Biography.
- Physicists.
- Austria.
- Physics--Philosophy.
- Physics.
- Quantum theory.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 321 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2013.
- Summary:
- "This books takes us into the heart of the quantum revolution. He tells the story of Schrödinger's surprisingly colorful life (he arrived for a position at Oxford University with both his wife and mistress). And with his trade mark accessible style and popular touch explains the fascinating world of quantum mechanics, which underpins all of modern science"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1 Nineteenth-Century Boy 7
- Antecedents
- Early years
- An empire's last hurrah
- Scientific stirrings
- From schoolboy to undergraduate
- 2 Physics before Schrödinger 22
- Newton and the world of particles
- Maxwell and the world of waves
- Boltzmann and the world of statistics
- 3 Twentieth-Century Man 44
- Student life
- Life beyond the lab
- War service on the Italian Front
- Back to Vienna
- The aftermath
- The peripatetic professor
- 4 The First Quantum Revolution 67
- When black bodies are bright
- Enter the quantum
- The quantum becomes real
- Inside the atom
- Tripping the light fantastic
- Einstein again
- 5 Solid Swiss Respectability 91
- The university and the ETH
- Personal problems and scientific progress
- Physics and philosophy
- Life and love
- "My world view"
- Quantum statistics
- 6 Matrix Mechanics 112
- Half-truths
- What you see is what you get
- Matrices don't commute
- Justice isn't always done
- 7 Schrödinger and the Second Quantum Revolution 124
- Science and sensuality
- Riding the wave
- A quantum of uncertainty
- The Copenhagen consensus
- 8 The Big Time in Berlin 148
- Making waves in America
- Berlin and Brussels
- The golden years
- Back to the future
- People and politics
- 9 The Coming of the Quantum Cat 172
- Back in the USA
- Oxford and beyond
- Faster than light?
- The cat in the box
- From Oxford with love
- 10 There, and Back Again 187
- Whistling in the dark
- Reality bites
- The unhappy return
- Belgian interlude
- 11 "The Happiest Years of My Life" 201
- "Dev"
- Settling in
- Early days at the DIAS
- "Family" life in Dublin
- The post-war years
- Many worlds
- 12 What Is Life? 224
- Life itself
- Quantum chemistry
- The green pamphlet
- Schrödinger's variation on the theme
- The double helix
- 13 Back to Vienna
- Farewell to Dublin
- Home is the hero
- Declining years
- The triumph of entropy
- 14 Schrodinger's Scientific Legacy 259
- Hidden reality and a mathematician's mistake
- The Bell test and the Aspect experiment
- Quantum cryptography and the "no cloning" theorem
- Quantum teleportation and classical information
- The quantum computer and the multiverse
- Quantum physics and reality.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Great Britain : Bantam Press, 2012.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781118299265
- 1118299264
- OCLC:
- 788294097
- Online:
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