02409oam 2200505 450 991013724290332120221206172731.02722602814978272260281610.4000/books.cdf.3696(CKB)3710000000504705(FrMaCLE)OB-cdf-3696(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/41514(PPN)267931441(EXLCZ)99371000000050470520170529h20152015 fu 0engurmn#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAtomic and molecular physics[electronic resource] inaugural lecture delivered on Tuesday 11 December 1973 /Claude Cohen-TannoudjiCollège de France2015Paris, France :Collège de France,2015.©20151 online resource illustrations, charts; digital, HTML file(s)Leçons inauguralesTranslated from French.Includes bibliographical references.When physicists began to explore the world of atoms more precisely, as they endeavoured to understand its structure and the laws governing its behaviour, they soon encountered serious difficulties. Our intuitive concepts, based on our daily experience of the macroscopic world around us, proved to be completely erroneous on the atomic scale; the atom was incomprehensible within the framework of classical physics. In order to uncover these new mysteries, after a great deal of trial and error, entirely new concepts therefore had to be elaborated: the concepts of quantum physics. What are the main stages that have led us to this modern understanding of the atom? What is the present state of atomic physics? How has it contributed to the development of our knowledge and where is it heading?PhysicsAtomicPhysicsMolecularmolecular physicstheoretical physicsatomic physicsquantum physicsPhysicsAtomic.PhysicsMolecular.Cohen-Tannoudji Claude1933-28326Libbrecht LizUkMaJRUBOOK9910137242903321Atomic and molecular physics2190031UNINA