The golden age of theoretical physics
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The golden age of theoretical physics
World Scientific, c2001
- v. 1
- v. 2
- : set
Available at 16 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
- Volume 1: Albert Einstein's "first" paper
- Max Planck and the law of blackbody radiation
- Planck's half-quanta - a history of the concept of zero-point energy
- Josiah Willard Gibbs and the foundations of statistical mechanics
- Einstein and the foundation of statistical mechanics
- Albert Einstein and Marian von Smoluchowski - early history of the theory of fluctuation phenomena
- the historical origins of the special theory of relativity
- the historical origins of the general theory of relativity
- Albert Einstein and the origin of light-quantum theory
- Niels Bohr and the quantum theory of the atom
- Arnold Sommerfeld and atoms as conditionally periodic systems
- the Gottingen tradition of mathematics and physics from Gauss to Hilbert and Born and Franck
- the Bohr festival in Gottingen -Bohr's Wolfskehl lectures and the theory of the periodic system of elements
- Satyendra Nath Bose, Bose-Einstein statistics, and the quantum theory of an ideal gas
- Louis de Broglie and the phase waves associated with matter
- Wolfgang Pauli and the discovery of the exclusion principle
- the discovery of electron spin
- the discovery of the Fermi-Dirac statistics. Volume 2: Werner Heisenberg and the birth of quantum mechanics
- "the golden age of theoretical physics" - PAM Dirac's scientific work from 1924 to 1933
- Erwin Schrodinger and the rise of wave mechanics 1 -Schrodinger's scientific work before the creation of wave mechanics
- Erwin Schrodinger and the rise of wave mechanics 2 -the creation of wave mechanics
- Erwin Schrodinger and the rise of wave mechanics 3 - early response and applications
- Niels Bohr's discussions with Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrodinger - the origins of the principles of uncertainty and complementarity
- Eugene Paul Wigner - aspects of his life, work, and personality
- Lev Davidovich Landau - some aspects of his life and personality
- the origin of quantum field theory
- the Solvay conferences of 1927 and 1930 and the consistency debate
- relativistic electrons and quantum fields
- new elementary particles in nuclear and cosmic-ray physics
- between hope and despair - quantum electrodynamics in the 1930s
- universal nuclear forces and Yukawa's new intermediate mass particle (1933-1937)
- new fields of describing elementary particles, their properties and interactions
- energy generation in stars and the origins of nuclear fission
- the Einstein-Bohr debate on the completion of quantum mechanics and its description of reality (1931-1936)
- the quantum principle - its interpretation and epistemology
- the dream of Leonardo da Vinci.
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