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100 1_ $aWhitaker, Andrew,$d1946-$eauthor.
245 10 $aJohn Stewart Bell and twentieth century physics :$bvision and integrity /$cAndrew Whitaker (Department of Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland).
250    $aFirst edition.
264 _1 $aOxford :$bOxford University Press,$c2016.
264 _4 $c©2016
300    $a1 online resource (xvi, 460 pages) :$billustrations.
336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337    $acomputer$bc$2rdamedia
338    $aonline resource$bcr$2rdacarrier
504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 411-443) and index.
588 0_ $aDescription based on print version record.
520 8_ $aThis work gives a non-mathematical account of Bell's upbringing in Belfast and his education. It describes his major contributions to quantum theory, but also his important work in the physics of accelerators, and nuclear and elementary particle physics.
505 0_ $aJohn Stewart Bell and Twentieth-​Century Physics; Copyright; Contents; 1. A Tough Start but a Good One; Belfast and politics; Family background; Family life; Early education; The war and the Tech; A year of transition; Queen's: The background; Student days; Early struggles with quantum theory; Early views on quantum theory; Last year at Queen's, and Peter Paul Ewald; 2. The 1950s: Progress on All Fronts; Harwell and Klaus Fuchs; Accelerators; Quantum theory 1: With particular attention to EPR; Quantum theory 2: With particular attention to Bohm and hidden variables
505 8_ $aPersonal life in the 1950sBirmingham, Peierls, and CPT; Back to Harwell and to theoretical physics; Farewell to Harwell; 3. The 1960s: The Decade of Greatest Success; CERN; John Bell at CERN, and the neutrinos; Hidden variables and von Neumann: Bell's first great paper; Bell and local causality: Bell's second great paper; Bell's general views on quantum theory in the 1960s; CPT: Ramifications; Bell, gauge theory, and the weak interaction; Bell and particle physics in the 1960s; The 'anomaly': ABJ; Bell and quantum theory: The first responses; A great decade; 4. The 1970s: Interest Increases
505 8_ $aEarly successes for Bell and for CERNBell's theorem: The first results; Bell and quantum theory in the 1970s; Bell and particle physics in the 1970s; 5. The 1980s: Final Achievements but Final Tragedies; Summary of the decade; Pasupathy, Bertlmann, and Rajaraman; Accelerator work in the 1980s; Results and thoughts on quantum theory in the 1980s; Honours and endings; 6. The Work Continues; Taking Bell's work forward; The birth of quantum information, and Bell's contribution; 7. Work of the Highest Calibre, and a Fine Life; References; Index
650 _0 $aPhysicists$vBiography.
650 _0 $aQuantum theory$xHistory$y20th century.
600 10 $aBell, J. S.
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650 _7 $aSCIENCE / Physics / General$2bisacsh
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776 08 $iPrint version:$aWhitaker, Andrew, 1946-$tJohn Stewart Bell and twentieth century physics.$bFirst edition.$dOxford : Oxford University Press, 2016$z0198742991$z9780198742999$w(OCoLC)941875078
856 40 $uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198742999.001.0001
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856 40 $zClick here to view book$uhttp://public.eblib.com/choice/PublicFullRecord.aspx?p=4842823
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Document ID: 9912430132302121
Network Electronic IDs: 9912430132302121
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