The physical review : the first hundred years : a selection of seminal papers and commentaries

Author(s)

• Stroke, H. Henry

Bibliographic Information

The physical review : the first hundred years : a selection of seminal papers and commentaries

edited by H. Henry Stroke

American Institute of Physics , American Physical Society, c1995

Note

1 CD-ROM in pocket (12 cm)

System requirements for accompanying computer disc: 386 or 486 IBM-compatible PC; VGA or SVGA monitor; hard-disk drive; CD-ROM drive supported by Windows; 5 MB of free space; 4 MB RAM, MS-DOS 3.3 or later; Windows 3.1 or later; Microsoft DOS Extensions 2.21 or later

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This package contains select seminal papers published in the first 100 years of "The Physical Review". Reflecting its distinguished heritage, the text presents numerous landmark articles, with an even larger collection available on the accompanying compact disc. The work features commentaries from many renowned physicists, including Abraham Pais, Victor F. Weisskopf, Edward Gerjuoy, P. James E. Peebles, Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky, George H. Trilling and Charles H. Townes.

Table of Contents

Contents: 1. The Physical Review: Then and Now. 2. Hundred Years of The Physical Review 3. The Early Years 1893-1930 4. Atomic Physics 5. Nuclear Physics. 6. Statistical Physics, Integrable, and Chaotic Systems. 7. Gravity Physics and Cosmology. 8. Cosmic Radiation: Discoveries Reported in The Physical Review 9. Condensed Matter. 10. Plasma Physics. 11. Elementary Particle Physics Experiments. 12. A Century of Particle Theory. 13. Science and Technology. 14. Quantum Mechanics: Does the Wave Function Provide a Complete Description of Physical Reality?

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Details

• NCID: BA26223059
• ISBN:
  • 1563961881
• LCCN: 94049713
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York,[College Park], MD
• Pages/Volumes: xix, 1266 p.
• Size: 29 cm.
• Attached Material: 1 CD-ROM
• Classification:
  • NDC8 : 420.4
  • LCC : QC7.5
  • DC20 : 530
  • NDLC : MC21
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Physics
  • LCSH : Physical review