The harvest of a century [[electronic resource] ] : discoveries in modern physics in 100 episodes / / Siegmund Brandt

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454507103321
• Autore: Brandt Siegmund
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• ISBN: 1-282-05332-9; 9786612053320; 0-19-156262-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (515 p.)
• Disciplina: 530.0904
• Soggetti: Physics - History - 20th century; Physics - Research - History - 20th century; Discoveries in science - History - 20th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Prologue - The Nineteenth-Century Heritage; 1 Röntgen's X Rays (1895); 2 Becquerel Discovers Radioactivity (1896); 3 Zeeman and Lorentz - A First Glimpse at the Electron (1896); 4 The Discovery of the Electron (1897); 5 Marie and Pierre Curie - Polonium and Radium (1898); 6 Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Rays (1899); 7 Max Planck and the Quantum of Action (1900); 8 Rutherford Finds the Law of Radioactive Decay (1900); 9 The Transmutation of Elements (1902); 10 Einstein's Light-Quantum Hypothesis (1905); 11 Einstein Creates the Special Theory of Relativity (1905); 12 Nernst and the Third Theorem of Thermodynamics (1905)13 Observing a Single Particle - The Rutherford-Geiger Counter and Later Electronic Detectors (1908); 14 Jean Perrin and Molecular Reality (1909); 15 Millikan's Oil-Drop Experiment (1910); 16 The Atomic Nucleus (1911); 17 Tracks of Single Particles in Wilson's Cloud Chamber (1911); 18 Kamerlingh Onnes - Liquid Helium and Superconductivity (1911); 19 Hess Finds Cosmic Radiation (1912); 20 Max von Laue - X Rays and Crystals (1912); 21 Bragg Scattering (1912); 22 J. J. Thomson Identifies Isotopes (1912); 23 Bohr's Model of the Atom (1913); 24 Moseley and the Periodic Table of Elements (1913)25 The Franck-Hertz Experiment (1914); 26 Einstein Completes the General Theory of Relativity (1915); 27 Sommerfeld - Spatial Quantization and Fine Structure (1916); 28 Nitrogen is Turned into Oxygen (1919); 29 Astronomers Verify General Relativity (1919); 30 Stern and Gerlach Observe Spatial Quantization (1922); 31 The Compton Effect - The Light Quantum Gains Momentum (1923); 32 Matter Waves Proposed by de Broglie (1923); 33 Bose and Einstein - A New Way of Counting (1924); 34 Bothe and Geiger - Coincidence Experiments (1925); 35 Pauli's Exclusion Principle (1925)36 Spin (1925); 37 Heisenberg and the Creation of Quantum Mechanics (1925); 38 Dirac's Mechanics of q Numbers (1925); 39 Schrödinger Creates Wave Mechanics (1926); 40 Born's Probability Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (1926); 41 Fermi-Dirac Statistics - Yet Another Way of Counting (1926); 42 Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and Bohr's Complementarity (1927); 43 Quantum Mechanics and Relativity - The Dirac Equation (1928); 44 The Band Model of Conductors and Semiconductors (1928-31); 45 Hubble Finds that the Universe is Expanding (1929); 46 Pauli Presents His Neutrino Hypothesis (1930)47 Lawrence and the Cyclotron (1931); 48 Chadwick Discovers the Neutron (1932); 49 Anderson Discovers the Positron (1932); 50 Nuclear Reaction Brought About by Machine (1932); 51 Heisenberg on Nuclear Forces: Isospin (1932); 52 The Proton Displays an 'Anomalous' Magnetic Moment (1933); 53 Fermi's Theory of Beta Rays (1933); 54 Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie - Artificial Radioactivity (1934); 55 Fermi Produces Radioactivity with Neutrons (1934); 56 Cherenkov Radiation Discovered (1934) and Explained (1937); 57 Prediction of the Meson (1934) - Discovery of the Muon (1937)
• Sommario/riassunto: Physics was the leading science of the twentieth century and the book retraces important discoveries, made between 1895 and 2001, in 100 self-contained Episodes. Each is a short story of the scientists involved, their time and their work. The book is richly illustrated by about 600 portraits, photographs and figures. - ;Physics was the leading science of the twentieth century and the book retraces important discoveries, made between 1895 and 2001, in 100 self-contained episodes. Each is a short story of the scientists involved, their time, and their work. Together they form a mosaic of modern