Beyond Uncertainty : Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb.
Title:
Beyond Uncertainty : Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb.
Author:
Cassidy, David C.
ISBN:
9781934137321
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (557 pages)
Contents:
Title Page -- Foreword -- CHAPTER 1 - THE EARLY YEARS -- CHAPTER 2 - THE WORLD AT WAR -- CHAPTER 3 - THE GYMNASIUM YEARS -- CHAPTER 4 - THE BATTLE OF MUNICH -- CHAPTER 5 - FINDING HIS PATH -- CHAPTER 6 - SOMMERFELD'S INSTITUTE -- CHAPTER 7 - CONFRONTING THE QUANTUM -- CHAPTER 8 - MODELING ATOMS -- CHAPTER 9 - CHANNELING RIVERS, QUESTIONING CAUSALITY -- CHAPTER 10 - ENTERING THE QUANTUM MATRIX -- CHAPTER 11 - AWASH IN MATRICES, RESCUED BY WAVES -- CHAPTER 12 - DETERMINING UNCERTAINTY -- CHAPTER 13 - REACHING THE TOP -- CHAPTER 14 - NEW FRONTIERS -- CHAPTER 15 - INTO THE ABYSS -- CHAPTER 16 - SOCIAL ATOMS -- CHAPTER 17 - OF PARTICLES AND POLITICS -- CHAPTER 18 - HEIR APPARENT -- CHAPTER 19 - THE LONELY YEARS -- CHAPTER 20 - A FAUSTIAN BARGAIN -- CHAPTER 21 - ONE WHO COULD NOT LEAVE -- CHAPTER 22 - WARFARE AND ITS USES -- CHAPTER 23 - A COPENHAGEN VISIT -- CHAPTER 24 - ORDERING REALITY -- CHAPTER 25 - PROFESSOR IN BERLIN -- CHAPTER 26 - RETURN TO THE MATRIX -- CHAPTER 27 - ONE LAST ATTEMPT -- CHAPTER 28 - EXPLAINING THE PROJECT: FARM HALL -- CHAPTER 29 - EXPLAINING THE PROJECT: THE WORLD -- CHAPTER 30 - THE LATER YEARS -- NOTES -- Acknowledgements -- INDEX -- Copyright Page.
Abstract:
Now in paperback: Heisenberg's life reconsidered for the twenty-first century by the world's leading English-language authority.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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