The Infancy of Atomic Physics: Hercules in His CradleThis compelling history portrays the faces and lives behind the beginnings of atomic science, from experiments in the 1880s to the era just after the First World War. It describes the dramatic discoveries as they were made, and it shows how they were interpreted in the scientific language of the time. |
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... scientific breakthroughs were reported to the public , may be found in the Annual register of world events . In 1863 , the editors decided to complement their purely political record of wars and rumours of war and parliamentary debates ...
... scientific breakthroughs were reported to the public , may be found in the Annual register of world events . In 1863 , the editors decided to complement their purely political record of wars and rumours of war and parliamentary debates ...
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... scientific brilliance , Lorentz led a somewhat withdrawn life , without the constant stimulus that pervaded Berlin or Cambridge . He had little contact with scientists abroad , and did not attend any foreign scientific meetings until he ...
... scientific brilliance , Lorentz led a somewhat withdrawn life , without the constant stimulus that pervaded Berlin or Cambridge . He had little contact with scientists abroad , and did not attend any foreign scientific meetings until he ...
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... scientific autobiogra- phies ' — from which anything too personal or irrational is severely excluded ( although the odd academic joke might be permitted ) . M. Planck , Scientific autobiography . ( English translation Williams & Nor ...
... scientific autobiogra- phies ' — from which anything too personal or irrational is severely excluded ( although the odd academic joke might be permitted ) . M. Planck , Scientific autobiography . ( English translation Williams & Nor ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Mysterious atom in mysterious ether | 9 |
Why at that time? Why in those places? | 23 |
Copyright | |
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