num_pages: 288
description: Cline recounts the development of quantum theory, capturing the atmosphere of argument and discovery among physicists in the 1920s. She explores the backgrounds of the major figures—Rutherford, Bohr, Planck, Einstein—separately, but draws them together as they begin to consider each other's questions about the nature of matter.
language: English
title: Men Who Made a New Physics: Physicists and the Quantum Theory
titlecomplete: Men Who Made a New Physics: Physicists and the Quantum Theory
genres: History, Biography, Science, History Of Science, Physics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 105
publisher: University of Chicago Press