The questioners: physicists and the quantum theory.
Publisher: Crowell
Published: 1965
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Physicists -- Biography.; Physics -- History.; Quantum theory -- History.
First sentence: Once upon a time, in Manchester, England, two physicists were talking about a student, Ernest Marsden, who was nineteen years old.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 261-263.
Table of contents: title: Ernest Rutherford: Discovery of the Nucleus 1; title: Ernest Rutherford: Radioactivity 17; title: Max Planck: Pursuit of an "Absolute," the Entropy Law 31; title: Max Planck: The Quantum Theory 51; title: Albert Einstein: Work of 1905 64; title: Niels Bohr: Early Quantum Theory of the Atom 88; title: Niels Bohr: Early Days of Atomic Physics 108; title: Wolfgan Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, and Bohr's Institute 127; title: A Introduction to Modern Quantum Theory 151; title: Creation of Quantum Mechanics 172; title: Albert Einstein: The General Theory of Relativity 219; title: The Debate Between Niels Bohr and Labert Einstein 235; title: Afterward 245