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02661aam a22003618i 4500 001 E2720ECC370411E887D7D95B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180403010230 008 170728t20182018nyua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017033532 020 $a 0190655178 020 $a 9780190655174 035 $a (OCoLC)1000297864 040 $a OU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c OSU $d DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d YDX $d BTCTA $d OCLCF $d IPS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a QC173.98 $b .P87 2018 082 00 $a 530.12/09043 $2 23 100 1 $a Purrington, Robert D., $e author. 245 14 $a The heroic age : $b the creation of quantum mechanics, 1925-1940 / $c Robert D. Purrington. 263 $a 1801 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xv, 403 pages: $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a "Clouds on the horizon": nineteenth-century origins and the old quantum theory -- 1913: the Bohr theory of the hydrogen atom -- Tyranny of data: atomic spectroscopy to 1925 -- After the war: quantum theory adrift; the correspondence princple -- At the creation: the "new quantum theory" -- The origins of wave mechanics -- The end of certainty: uncertainty and indeterminism -- Formalism, part I. Transformation theory -- Formalism, part II. unitarity and Hilbert space -- Intrinisc spin, the exclusion principle, and statistics -- Angular momentum, symmetries, and conservation laws -- Scattering and reaction theory -- Relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum field theory to 1940: the rise of particle physics -- Foundations and philosophy of quantum mechanics: interpretation and the measurement problem -- Nuclear physics: the first three decades -- Quantum theory and the birth of stellar astrophysics -- Atomic and molecular physics -- Condensed matter: solids and quantum liquids -- Epilogue. 520 $a "This book is a history of the crucial developmental years of quantum theory with an emphasis on the literature rather than an overview of this period focusing on personalities or personal stories of the scientists involved. This book instead focuses on how the theoretical discoveries came about, when and where they were published, and how they became accepted as part of the scientific canon"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Quantum theory $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a Quantum theory. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01085128 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180605013729.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E2720ECC370411E887D7D95B97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search