|
|
Sold Out
Book Categories |
Introduction 1
Munich Then and Now 9
The Changing Times 17
The 1920s
The Birth of the Quantum
Why Copenhagen?
The Meetings Begin
The 1932 Meeting
Goethe and Faust 39
In the Glow of Goethe
The "Copenhagen Faust"
The Front Row: The Old Guard 51
Niels Bohr
Paul Ehrenfest
Lise Meitner
The Front Row: The Revolutionaries 71
Old Age Is a Cold Fever
Werner Heisenberg
Wolfgang Pauli
Paul Dirac
Classical Mechanics versus Quantum Mechanics
The Front Row: The Young Ones 95
The Curse of the Knabenphysik
Max Delbruck
The Coming Storm 101
The Periodic Table
The New Kepler
Gottingen in 1922
Triumph and Crisis
The New Optimism
The Revolution Begins 129
Helgoland
Another Sleepless Night
Waves or Particles
Heisenberg versus Schrodinger
Uncertainty and Complementarity
The King in Decline 155
The Crucial Solvay Conference
Einstein-The King
The Great Synthesis 165
Dirac's Equation
How Max Delbruck Joined Knabenphysik
Physics Begins to Split
Delbruck's Choices
Conservation of Energy 181
The Mysteries of the Nucleus
The Barrier Is Too High
Heaven and Earth
The Revolutionary Proposals
The Three Young Geniuses Each Write a Book
The New Generation Comes of Age 207
TheApprenticeship
Copenhagen 1932
The "Blegdamsvej Faust"
Delbruck's Dilemma
The Miracle Year 229
The Discovery of the Neutron
Copenhagen and the Neutron
The Miracle Year
Big Science Is Born
The Hammer and the Needle
Ehrenfest's End 249
Epilogue: Or What Happened Afterward to the Front Row's Other Six 257
How Meitner Discovered Nuclear Fission
How Bohr Lived Happily Ever After
How Dirac Got Married
How Heisenberg Inspired His Friend to Paint Like Titian
How Pauli's Anima Made Him Leave the United States
How Delbruck Became a Biologist
Coda 271
Acknowledgments 273
Notes 276
Bibliography 293
Index 298
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
| WonderClub |
Walter Peters
reviewed Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics on July 04, 2013
Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics
I enjoyed getting to know the characters involved in this very revolutionary period in physics. it seems that in theoretical physics, the general rule is that you've got to make your revolutionary discovery by age 25 or not at all (though it is comforting to know that there are exceptions, such as Schrödinger, who made his big discovery at the grand old age of 39),
I have a renewed appreciation for Bohr. Of course his orbital model of the atom is about the first thing you learn about in quantum, along with some mumbo jumbo about complementarity. But perhaps his biggest contribution was not the papers he published but his role in mentoring, encouraging, advocating for and showing hospitality to younger generations of physicists. Not to mention his heroic efforts in securing the safe escape from Nazi occupied Europe of not only many Jewish scientists but also the vast majority of Danish Jews.
Login|Complaints|Blog|Games|Digital Media|Souls|Obituary|Contact Us|FAQ
CAN'T FIND WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR? CLICK HERE!!! X
You must be logged in to add to WishlistX
This item is in your Wish List
X
This item is in your Collection
Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics
X
This Item is in Your Inventory
Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics
X
You must be logged in to review the productsX
X
X
Add Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics, A physicist himself, Gino Segrè writes about what scientists do-and why they do it-with intimacy, clarity, and passion. In Faust in Copenhagen, he evokes the fleeting, magical moment when physics-and the world-was about to lose its innocence foreve, Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
X
Add Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics, A physicist himself, Gino Segrè writes about what scientists do-and why they do it-with intimacy, clarity, and passion. In Faust in Copenhagen, he evokes the fleeting, magical moment when physics-and the world-was about to lose its innocence foreve, Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics to your collection on WonderClub |
