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Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory

By George Gamow

Book information

Publisher
Dover Publications
Year
1985
ISBN
048624895X, 9780486248950
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
12 MB (12943638 bytes)
Pages
272\0
Time added
2013-12-23 16:10:12

Description

"An intriguing portrait of the scientists and clashing ideas that made the quantum revolution." — Christian Science Monitor. Entertaining, rigorous introduction to the development of quantum theory traces the subject's history, from Max Planck's revolutionary discovery of quanta and Niels Bohr's model of the atom to anti-particles, mesons, and Enrico Fermi's nuclear research. Numerous line drawings. 1966 edition.

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