عنوان

The heroic age :

(Number (ISBN

0190655178

(Number (ISBN

9780190655174

Title Proper

The heroic age :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the creation of quantum mechanics, 1925-1940 /

First Statement of Responsibility

Robert D. Purrington.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York, NY :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2018]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xv, 403 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

25 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

"Clouds on the horizon": nineteenth-century origins and the birth of the old quantum theory -- 1913: the Bohr theory of the hydrogen atom -- Tyranny of data: atomic spectroscopy to 1925 -- Quantum theory adrift: World War I -- At the creation: matrix mechanics and the new quantum theory -- Schrödinger and wave mechanics -- The end of certainty: uncertainty and indeterminism -- Formalism: "transformation theory" -- Hilbert space and unitarity -- Intrinisc spin and the exclusion principle -- Angular momentum, symmetries, and conservation laws -- Scattering and reaction theory -- Relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum-field theory to 1940: the rise of particle physics -- Foundations and philosophy of quantum mechanics: interpretation and the measurement problem -- Nuclear theory: the first three decades -- Quantum theory and the birth of astrophysics -- Atomic and molecular physics -- Condensed matter: quantum solids and liquids -- Epilogue.

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Text of Note

"This book is a history of the crucial developmental years of quantum theory with an emphasis on the literature rather than an overview of this period focusing on personalities or personal stories of the scientists involved. This book instead focuses on how the theoretical discoveries came about, when and where they were published, and how they became accepted as part of the scientific canon"--

Quantum theory-- History-- 20th century.

33.01 history of physics.

Quantenmechanik

Quantentheorie

Quantum theory.

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Edition

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Book number

Purrington, Robert D.

Date of Transaction

20200822090736.0

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