Atoms, Metaphors and Paradoxes
Subtitle: Niels Bohr and the Construction of a New Physics
Contributors: Ian McGilvray (Translator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 23, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780521031882
Subjects: Quantum physics (quantum mechanics); Science; Science/Mathematics; History; Quantum Theory; Quantum theory--History; Quantum theory--History Quantum theory--Histo; Science / Physics; Science / Quantum Theory; Science : History; Physics
First sentence: 'The new wave mechanics gave rise to the hope that an account of atomic phenomena might be obtained which would not differ essentially from that afforded by the classical theories of electricity and magnetism.