Men Who Made a New Physics: Physicists and the Quantum TheoryCline recounts the development of quantum theory, capturing the atmosphere of argument and discovery among physicists in the 1920s. She explores the backgrounds of the major figures—Rutherford, Bohr, Planck, Einstein—separately, but draws them together as they begin to consider each other's questions about the nature of matter. |
Contents
Ernest Rutherford Discovery of the Nucleus | 1 |
Ernest Rutherford Radioactivity | 17 |
Max Planck Pursuit of an Absolute the Entropy Law | 31 |
Max Planck The Quantum Theory | 51 |
Albert Einstein Work of 1905 | 64 |
Niels Bohr Early Quantum Theory of the Atom | 88 |
Niels Bohr Early Days of Atomic Physics | 108 |
Wolfgang Pauli Werner Heisenberg and Bohrs Institute | 127 |
An Introduction to Modern Quantum Theory | 151 |
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