Finn Aaserud (Director, Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen, Denmark), John L. Heilbron (Professor of History, Emeritus, University of Cal

Love, Literature, and the Quantum Atom

Niels Bohr's 1913 Trilogy Revisited

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents unpublished excerpts from extensive correspondence between Niels Bohr and his immediate family, and uses it to describe and analyze the psychological and cultural background to his invention of the quantum theory of the atom.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 738g
• ISBN-13: 9780199680283
• ISBN-10: 0199680280
• Artikelnr.: 37502790

Autorenporträt

Finn Aaserud is Director of the Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen. John L. Heilbron is Professor of History and Vice-Chancellor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and Honorary Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

* Part 1. Niels Bohr's Private Sphere - as revealed through unpublished
family correspondence
* 1: Introduction
* 2: Finding each other in Copenhagen
* 3: Niels in Cambridge
* 4: Niels in Manchester
* 5: Beginning married life in Copenhagen
* 6: Conclusion
* Part 2. Nascent Science - The scientific and psychological background
to Bohr's Trilogy
* 7: Necessary preliminaries
* 8: Some physics around 1900
* 9: "Stupid electrons"
* 10: Indictment of classical physics
* 11: Odin the lawgiver
* 12: The Trilogy
* 13: Bolts from the blue
* Part 3. The Trilogy