Introduction -- Finding each other in Copenhagen -- Niels in Cambridge -- Niels in Manchester -- Beginning married life in Copenhagen -- Necessary preliminaries -- Some physics around 1900 -- "Stupid electrons" -- Indictment of "classical physics" -- Odin the law giver -- The trilogy -- Bolts from the blue -- Binding of electrons by positive nuclei -- Systems containing only a single nucleus -- Systems containing several nuclei
Summary
This title presents unpublished excerpts from extensive correspondence between Niels Bohr and his immediate family, and uses it to describe and analyze the psychological and cultural background to his invention of the quantum theory of the atom -- Source other than Library of Congress
