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Record Nr.

UNINA9910774837603321

Autore

Califano Salvatore

Titolo

La nascita della meccanica quantistica / / Salvatore Califano, Vincenzo Schettino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Italy : , : Firenze University Press, , 2018

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (174 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Studi e saggi ; ; 181

Disciplina

530.1209

Soggetti

Quantum theory - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Quantum mechanics has constituted a great scientific and cultural revolution that has profoundly changed our approach to the study of the microscopic and subatomic world. The birth and evolution of the theories of quantum mechanics are relived through the personal and scientific history of the protagonists, their attempts and their working hypotheses, discoveries, doubts, discussions. The substantially counterintuitive concepts of the new mechanics have redesigned the meaning of our knowledge of the world of atoms; particular attention is then paid to the impact that this new vision of the microscopic world has had on chemistry and on our knowledge of the structure and reactivity of atoms and molecules.