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John S. Rigden
Machine generated contents note: 1 In the Beginning: Hydrogen and the Big Bang 6 -- 2 Hydrogen and the Unity of Matter: The Prout 21 -- Hypothesis -- William Prout, 5181 -- 3 Hydrogen and the Spectra of the Chemical Elements: 91 -- A Swiss High School Teacher Finds a Pattern -- JohannJakob Balmer, 5881 -- 4 The Bohr Model of Hydrogen: A Paradigm for the 72 -- Structure of Atoms -- Niels Bohr, 3191 -- 5 Relativity Meets the Quantum in the Hydrogen Atom 34 -- Arnold Sommerfeld, 6191 -- 6 The Fine-Structure Constant: A Strange Number 25 -- with Universal Significance -- Arnold Sommerfeld, 6191 -- 7 The Birth of Quantum Mechanics: The Hydrogen 95 -- Atom Answers the "Crucial Question" -- Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli, 5291-62 -- Paul Dirac, 5291-62 -- 8 The Hydrogen Atom: Midwife to the Birth of Wave 47 -- Mechanics -- Erwin Schrddinger, 6291 -- 9 The Hydrogen Atom and Dirac' Theory of the 78 -- Electron -- Paul Dirac, 8291 -- 01 Hydrogen Guides Nuclear Physicists: The Discovery of 69 -- Deuterium -- Harold Urey, 2391 -- 11 Hubris Meets Hydrogen: The Magnetic Moment of 301 -- the Proton -- Otto Stem, 3391 -- 21 The Magnetic Resonance Method: The Origin of 311 -- Magnetic Resonance Imaging -- I. I. Rabi, 8391 -- 31 New Nuclear Forces Required: The Discovery of the 521 -- Quadrupole Moment of the Deuteron -- Norman E Ramsey and I. I. Rabi, 9391 -- 41 Magnetic Resonance in Bulk Matter )NMR( 731 -- Edward M. Purcell and Felix Bloch, 6491 -- 51 Hydrogen 's Challenge to Dirac Theory: Quantum 051 -- Electrodynamics as the Prototype Physical Theory -- Willis Lamb, 7491 -- 61 The Hydrogen Atom Portends an Anomaly with the 161 -- Electron -- I. I. Rabi, John E. Nafe, and Edward B. Nelson, 6491 -- 71 Hydrogen Maps the Galaxy 171 -- Edward M. Purcell and Harold Ewen, 1591 -- 81 The Hydrogen Maser: A High-Precision Clock 381 -- Norman F Ramsey and Daniel Kleppner, 0691 -- 91 The Rydberg Constant: A Fundamental Constant 791 -- Johannes Robert Rydberg, 0981 -- Theodor W. Hinsch, 2991 -- 02 The Abundance ofDeuterium.:A Check on Big Bang 112 -- Cosmology -- David N. Schramm, 5491-7991 -- 12 Antihydrogen: The First Antiatom 322 -- 22 The Bose-Einstein Condensate for Hydrogen 432 -- Satyendranath Bose, 4291 * Albert Einstein, 5291 -- Eric A. Cornell and Carl E. Wieman, 5991 -- Daniel Kleppner and Tom Greytak, 8991 -- 32 Exotic Hydrogen-like Atoms: From Theory to 242 -- Technology