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The questioners : physicists and the quantum theory / Barbara Lovett Cline.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cline, Barbara Lovett.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physicists--Biography.
- Physicists.
- Physics--History.
- Physics.
- Quantum theory--History.
- Quantum theory.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Zinman, Michael (donor) (Zinman copy)
- Physical Description:
- vii, 274 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crowell, 1965.
- Contents:
- Ernest Rutherford: discovery of the nucleus
- Ernest Rutherford: radioactivity
- Max Planck: pursuit of an "absolute," the entropy law
- Max Planck: the quantum theory
- Albert Einstein: work of 1905
- Niels Bohr: early quantum theory of the atom
- Niels Bohr: early days of atomic physics
- Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, and Bohr's institute
- An introduction to modern quantum theory
- Creation of quantum mechanics
- Interpretation of quantum mechanics
- Albert Einstein: the general theory of relativity
- The debate between Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein
- Afterward.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-263) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries Zinman copy has dust jacket.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Cline, Barbara Lovett. Questioners: physicists and the quantum theory.
- OCLC:
- 372589
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