Faust in Copenhagen :
Segrè, Gino.
Faust in Copenhagen : a struggle for the soul of physics / Gino Segrè. - New York : Viking, 2007. - x, 310 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-297) and index.
Munich then and now -- The changing times -- Goethe and Faust -- The front row : the old guard -- The front row : the revolutionaries -- The front row : the young ones -- The coming storm -- The revolution begins -- The king in decline -- The great synthesis -- Conservation of energy -- The new generation comes of age -- The miracle year -- Ehrenfest's end -- Epilogue : or what happened afterward to the front row's other six. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Ch. 11. Ch. 12. Ch. 13. Ch. 14.
9780670038589 067003858X
2006052807
Physicists--Psychology.
Physicists--Intellectual life--20th century.
Quantum theory--History--20th century.
QC15 / .S427 2007
530.092/2
Faust in Copenhagen : a struggle for the soul of physics / Gino Segrè. - New York : Viking, 2007. - x, 310 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-297) and index.
Munich then and now -- The changing times -- Goethe and Faust -- The front row : the old guard -- The front row : the revolutionaries -- The front row : the young ones -- The coming storm -- The revolution begins -- The king in decline -- The great synthesis -- Conservation of energy -- The new generation comes of age -- The miracle year -- Ehrenfest's end -- Epilogue : or what happened afterward to the front row's other six. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Ch. 11. Ch. 12. Ch. 13. Ch. 14.
9780670038589 067003858X
2006052807
Physicists--Psychology.
Physicists--Intellectual life--20th century.
Quantum theory--History--20th century.
QC15 / .S427 2007
530.092/2