| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cambridge and the Cavendish -- European and Nuclear Disintegration -- Vienna and the Institute for Radium Research -- The Cambridge-Vienna Controversy -- The Quantum-Mechanical Nucleus -- Nuclear Electrons and Nuclear Structure -- New Particles -- New Machines -- Nuclear Physicists at the Crossroads -- Exiles and Immigrants -- Artificial Radioactivity -- Beta Decay Redux, Slow Neutrons, Bohr and his Realm -- New Theories of Nuclear Reactions -- The Plague Spreads to Austria and Italy -- The New World |
| Summary |
This history of nuclear physics sets the experimental innovations and theoretical breakthroughs in the field in the period between the two world wars within the contexts of the lives and personalities of the physicists who made them and the physical, intellectual, and political environments of the countries and institutions in which they worked |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 18, 2018) |
| Subject |
Nuclear physics -- History
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- Quantum Theory.
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Nuclear physics
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192562906 |
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0192562908 |
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9780191866586 |
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019186658X |
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