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TitleThirty Years that Shook Physics
AuthorGamow, George
Asset Number00180
PublisherHeinemann Eductional Books Ltd
ISBN0435550713
Published Date1972
Edition1
Printing1
Description
Ex-library hardcover with protected dust jacket.
 
thirty years that shook physics: the story of quantum theory.
 
Entertaining, rigorous introduction to the development of quantum theory traces the subject's history, from Max Planck's revolutionary discovery of quanta and Niels Bohr's model of the atom to anti-particles, mesons, and Enrico Fermi's nuclear research. Numerous line drawings. 1966 edition.
 
CategoryPhysics
EpochVintage
Date Acquired05/12/2021
Condition(1) Fine