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The dreams that stuff is made of : the most astounding papers on quantum physics--and how they shook the scientific world
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Collects several historic scientific papers that served to establish quantum theory and fundamentally alter the scientific understanding of physical reality and the universe.
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- Creator
- edited, with an introduction, by Stephen Hawking
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Philadelphia, PA : Running Press, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- xi, 1071 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780762434343, 0762434341
- OCLC
- ocn751729719
- Includes bibliographical references.
- On the law of distribution of energy in the normal spectrum / Max Planck -- On a heuristic viewpoint concerning the production and transformation of light / Albert Einstein -- The Atomic theory of matter / The scattering of alpha and beta particles by matter and the structure of the atom / Ernest Rutherford -- On the constitution of atoms and molecules / Niels Bohr -- The structure of the atom / Excerpts from The physical principles of the quantum theory / Werner Heisenberg -- The development of quantum mechanics / Quantisation as an Eigenvalue problem, parts 1-4 / Erwin Schrodinger --
- The quantum theory of the electron / Paul A.M. Dirac -- On the connection between spin and statistics / Wolfgang Pauli -- Exclusion principle and quantum mechanics / Statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics / Max Born -- The present situation in quantum mechanics / Erwin Schrodinger -- Can quantum-mechanical description of physical reality be considered complete? / Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen -- Can Quantum-mechanical description of physical reality be considered complete? / Niels Bohr -- A suggested interpretation of the quantum theory in terms of 'hidden' variables 1 / by David Bohm -- A suggested interpretation of the quantum theory in terms of 'hidden' variables 2 / On the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox / John Bell -- The quantum theory of the emission and absorption of radiation
- The Lagrangian method in quantum mechanics / Paul A.M. Dirac -- On quantum electrodynamics / Paul A.M. Dirac, V.A. Flock, and Boris Podolsky -- Foundations of the new field theory / Max Born and Leopold Infeld -- Electron theory / J. Robert Oppenheimer -- Fine structure of the hydrogen atom by a microwave method / Willis Lamb and Robert Rutherford -- The electromagnetic shift of energy levels / Hans Bethe -- On a relativistically invariant formulation of the quantum theory of wave fields / Sin-Itiro Tomanaga -- Space-time approach to quantum electrodynamics / Richard Feynman -- The theory of positrons / The radiation theories of Tomonaga, Schwinger and Feynman / Freeman Dyson -- Problems of atomic dynamics / Max Born -- Excerpts from thirty years that shook physics (chapters 1 and 4) / George Gamow -- Excerpts from lectures on quantum mechanics by Paul A.M. Dirac