자료유형 | 단행본 |
개인저자 | Pais Abraham 1918-.,
|
서명/저자사항 | Niels Bohr's times : in physics, philosophy, and polity / Abraham Pais. |
발행사항 | Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press , 1991. |
형태사항 | xvii, 565 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
ISBN | 0198520492 |
서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
주제명(개인명) | Bohr Niels Henrik David 1885-1962. |
일반주제명 | Nuclear physics History. |
서가에 없는 책 찾기
모바일발송
No. | 소장처 | 청구기호 | 등록번호 | 도서상태 | 반납예정일 | 예약 | 분관대출 | 서비스 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 과학도서관/Sci-Info(2층서고)/ | 530.092 B677p | 121142606 | 대출가능 |
![]() |
CONTENTS
1 A Dane for all seasons = 1
(a) Themes = 1
(b) Some personal recollections = 4
(c) A tour through this book = 14
2 'In Denmark I was born ...' = 32
3 Boyhood = 42
4 Toward the twentieth century: from ancient optics to relativity theory = 52
(a) 1903 = 52
(b) The nature of light; beginnings = 53
(c) Particles or waves? = 56
(d) Color, visible and invisible = 60
(e) Of Maxwell's theory, Hertz's experiment, and the definition of classical physics = 63
(f) Trouble with the aether: the Michelson-Morley experiment = 66
(g) In which classical physics comes to an end and Einstein makes his first appearance = 68
5 Natura facit saltum: the roots of quantum physics = 74
(a) The age of continuity = 74
(b) Kirchhoff's law = 75
(c) 1860-1896 = 77
(d) 1896: physics takes a bizarre turn = 78
(e) Introducing Max Planck = 79
(f) A brief digression on statistical mechanics = 80
(g) In which Planck stumbles on a new law that ushered in the physics of the twentieth century = 82
(h) Particles or waves? = 87
6 Student days = 92
(a) Physics in Denmark, from a college for the clergy to the epoch of <TEX>$$\emptyset$$</TEX> rsted = 92
(b) In which Bohr begins his university studies and starts mobilizing help in writing = 97
(c) The atom: status in 1909 = 103
(d) Niels Bohr, M.Sc., Ph.D. = 107
(e) Death of father. Bohr becomes engaged = 111
7 In which Bohr goes to England for postdoctoral research = 117
(a) Cambridge: Thomson, father of the electron = 117
(b) Manchester: Rutherford, father of the nucleus = 121
8 Bohr, father of the atom = 132
(a) Young man in a hurry = 132
(b) In which Bohr leaves the church and gets married = 133
(c) The Rutherford memorandum = 135
(d) 'The language of spectra ... a true atomic music of the spheres' = 139
(e) In which Bohr hears about the Balmer formula = 143
(f) Triumph over logic: the hydrogen atom = 146
(g) Reactions, including Bohr's own = 152
9 How Bohr secured his permanent base of operations = 160
(a) The early schools in quantum physics = 160
(b) In which Bohr returns to Manchester and then becomes Denmark's first professor of theoretical physics = 163
(c) In which Bohr acquires his own institute = 166
10 'It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair' = 176
(a) Mathematics in physics = 176
(b) The old quantum theory 1913-1916: sketches = 179
(c) In pursuit of principles: Ehrenfest, Einstein, and Bohr = 189
(d) The crisis = 196
(e) Bohr and the periodic table of elements = 202
(f) The Nobel Prize = 210
11 Bohr and Einstein = 224
(a) Comparisons = 224
(b) First encounters = 227
(c) More on Einstein and the light-quantum = 230
(d) 'The culmination of the crisis': the BKS proposal = 232
(e) The new era dawns: de Broglie = 239
(f) Spin = 241
12 'A modern Viking who comes on a great errand' = 249
(a) Bohr & Sons = 249
(b) International recognition = 251
(c) First trip to America = 253
(d) Bohr as fund raiser = 255
(e) The institute up till mid-1925. Introducing Heisenberg = 260
13 'Then the whole picture changes completely': the discovery of quantum mechanics = 267
(a) A last look back: Bohr as 'director of atomic theory' = 267
(b) Kramers in 1924 = 270
(c) Heisenberg in 1924 = 272
(d) 1925: how quantum mechanics emerged 'quite vaguely from the fog' = 275
(e) Bohr's earliest reactions = 279
(f) Early 1926: the second coming of quantum mechanics = 280
(g) The summer of 1926: Born on probability, causality, and determinism = 284
(h) Appendix. c- and q-numbers for pedestrians = 289
14 The Spirit of Copenhagen = 295
(a) The Copenhagen team in 1926. Heisenberg resolves the helium puzzle = 295
(b) In which Schr<TEX>$$\ddot o$$</TEX>dinger comes on a visit = 298
(c) Prelude to complementarity. The Bohr-Heisenberg dialog = 300
(d) The uncertainty relations, with a look back at the correspondence principle = 304
(e) Complementarity: a new kind of relativity = 309
(f) Solvay 1927. The Bohr-Einstein dialog begins = 316
15 Looking into the atomic nucleus = 324
(a) Beginnings of a new direction for Bohr and his school = 324
(b) Theoretical nuclear physics: the prehistoric era = 325
(c) Great progress: the first artificial transmutation of chemical elements and the first signs of a new force. Great confusion: the proton-electron model of the nucleus = 327
(d) In which quantum mechanics reveals nuclear paradoxes and the neutron is discovered = 330
(e) In which the Bohrs move to the Residence of Honor = 332
(f) In which Bohr takes nuclear matters in hand = 335
(g) Being a brief prelude to the war and the years thereafter = 341
16 Toward the edge of physics in the Bohr style, and a bit beyond = 346
(a) Particles and fields = 346
(b) QED = 350
(c) Spin (continued). The positron. The meson = 352
(d) Bohr on QED = 358
(e) Bohr and the crisis of 1929. The neutrino = 364
17 How Bohr orchestrated experimental progress in the 1930s, in physics and in biology = 375
(a) Four fateful factors = 375
(b) The first accelerators = 375
(c) Weaver at the helm = 379
(d) Troubles in Germany = 381
(e) Bohr and the Rockefeller foundation's emergency program = 383
(f) The discovery of induced radioactivity = 386
(g) Four fateful factors fit = 387
(h) How Hevesy introduced isotopic tracers in biology = 388
(i) Bohr as fund raiser (continued) = 394
(j) Denmark's first accelerators and the fifth fateful factor = 398
18 Of sad events and of major journeys = 407
(a) Days of sorrow = 407
(b) Times of travel = 413
19 'We are suspended in language' = 420
(a) Bohr and philosophy: 'It was, in a way, my life' = 420
(b) Complementarity (continued). More on the Bohr-Einstein dialog. A new definition of'phenomenon' = 425
(c) Bohr on statistical mechanics = 436
(d) Complementarism = 438
20 Fission = 452
(a) The early days, including Bohr's discovery of the role of uranium 235 = 452
(b) Fission in Copenhagen = 458
(c) Atomic energy? Atomic weapons? = 460
(d) Bohr as president of the Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab = 464
21 Bohr, pioneer of 'glasnost' = 473
(a) Introduction = 473
(b) Denmark and Germany, from 16 November 1864 until 4 May 1945 = 474
(c) Bohr's war years, the Scandinavian episode = 479
(d) Bohr's war years, the Anglo-American episode = 490
(e) Bohr, Churchill, Roosevelt, and the atomic bomb = 497
22 In which Bohr moves full steam into his later years = 509
(a) Prolog = 509
(b) The later writings, 1945-1962 = 510
(c) Glasnost 1950: Bohr's open letters to the United Nations = 513
(d) CERN = 519
(e) Nordita = 521
(f) Ris<TEX>$$\emptyset$$</TEX> = 523
(g) The later travels = 528
(h) The final half year = 529
23 Epilog = 534
Appendix A synopsis of this book in the form of a chronology = 538
Index of names = 547
Index of subjects = 553