Jaume Navarro

A History of the Electron

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An intellectual biography of J. J. and G. P. Thomson for academics and graduate students, focusing on the concept of the electron.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9781107005228
• ISBN-10: 1107005221
• Artikelnr.: 36029565

Autorenporträt

Jaume Navarro is Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian. He trained in physics, philosophy and the history of science, and has an international research record having spent several years at the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the University of Exeter.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The early years in Manchester and Cambridge
2. J. J. Thomson's early work in Cambridge: a continuous and all-embracing physics
3. The ether and the corpuscle: from waves to particles
4. On creeds and policies: the corpuscular theory of matter
5. Father and son. Old and new physics
6. The electron in Aberdeen: from particle to wave
Index.