Atoms, Metaphors and Paradoxes
Subtitle: Niels Bohr and the Construction of a New Physics
Contributors: Ian McGilvray (Translator)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 28, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780521402590
Subjects: Quantum physics (quantum mechanics); Theoretical methods; Science; Science/Mathematics; History; Bohr, Niels Henrik David; Quantum theory--History; Science / Physics; Science / Quantum Theory; Science : History; Bohr, Niels Henrik David,; Physics; 1885-1962; Quantum Theory
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.