The Golden Age of Theoretical Physics - 2 volumes
Selected Essays
Résumé
This book deals with the most important themes developed in the first 40 years of the twentieth century by some of the greatest pioneers and architects of modern physics. It is a vital source of information about what can veritably be described as 'the golden age of theoretical physics'.
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 Göttingen Tradition of Mathematics and Physics from Gauss to Hilbert and Born and Franck
- The Bohr Festival in Göttingen: 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
- 'The Golden Age of Theoretical Physics': PAM Dirac's Scientific Work from 1924 to 1933
- Erwin Schrödinger and the Rise of Wave Mechanics. I. Schrödinger's Scientific Work Before the Creation of Wave Mechanics
- Erwin Schrödinger and the Rise of Wave Mechanics. II. The Creation of Wave Mechanics
- Erwin Schrödinger and the Rise of Wave Mechanics. III. Early Response and Applications
- Niels Bohr's Discussions with Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, and Erwin Schrödinger: 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 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
Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | World Scientific |
Auteur(s) | Jagdish Mehra |
Parution | 07/12/2001 |
Nb. de pages | 1408 |
Format | 17,8 x 26 |
Couverture | Relié |
Poids | 2900g |
Intérieur | Noir et Blanc |
EAN13 | 9789810243425 |
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