The Quantum Generation [E-Book] : Highlights and Tragedies of the Golden Age of Physics / by Margarita Ryutova-Kemoklidze.
Quantum mechanics dates its anniversaries from 1925, the year when its first versions, matrix and wave mechanics, were born. The quan tum itself had by that time reached the age of 25, having first seen the light of day on the eve of the nativity of the 20th century itself. Either shunned or comple...
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Personal Name(s): | Ryutova-Kemoklidze, Margarita, author |
Imprint: |
Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer,
1995
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Physical Description: |
XXII, 327 p. 16 illus. online resource. |
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englisch |
ISBN: |
9783642493577 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-642-49357-7 |
Subject (LOC): |
- 1 By the Sure Path of Experimentation
- 2 Fiat Lux
- 3 To Göttingen
- 4 From the Maroseika to Chistiye Prudy
- 5 Petrograd — and Back to Moscow
- 6 Where the Crowned Heads of Science Gather
- 7 Professor Born’s Circle of Friends
- 8 “Then, As Now, Physicists Went About Their Work and Regarded It As Perfectly Normal”
- 9 Metamorphosis
- 10 “I Shall Leave Neither Tomorrow Nor the Day After”
- 11 The Choice
- 12 Cascades and Showers
- 13 Pentoptics
- 14 Earning a Living as an Engineer
- 15 Teaching the Teachers
- 16 On Pearl Street
- 17 In the Beginning was Mechanics
- References
- Biography.