| Description |
xiv, 403 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Part I. The man and what he achieved -- A short biography / P.J. Kennedy -- A personal memoir / James Franck -- Nield Bohr, the quantum, and the world / Victor F. Weisskopf -- Part II. The early years -- Bohr's first theories of the atom / John L. Heilbron -- The theory of the periodic system / Helge Kragh -- Bohr and Rutherford / Mark Oliphant -- Bohr, Gottingen, and quantum mechanics / Friedrich Hund -- The trilogy / Niels Bohr -- Nobel prize lecture : the structure of the atom / Niels Bohr -- Part III. The birth and growth of quantum mechanics -- Bohr on the foundations of quantum theory / Edward MacKinnon -- The Bohr-Einstein dialogue / Niels Bohr -- A bolt from the blue : the E-P-R paradox / N. David Mermin -- Delayed-choice experiments / P.J. Kennedy -- On Bohr's views concerning the quantum theory / David Bohm -- Waves and particles : 1923-1924 / John C. Slater -- Reminiscences from 1926 and 1927 / Werner Heisenberg -- At the Niels Bohr Institute in 1929 / Nevill Mott -- Niels Bohr and the physics of simple phenomena / H.B.G. Casimir -- A few memories / Edward Teller -- A reminiscence from 1932 / C.F. von Weizsacker -- The Como lecture / Niels Bohr -- Part IV. In the world of nuclear physics -- Niels Bohr and nuclear physics / Roger Stuewer -- Physics in Copenhagen in 1934 and 1935 / John A. Wheeler -- Some recollections of Bohr / Rudolf Peierls -- Niels Bohr and his institute / Hans Bethe -- Transmutations of atomic nuclei / Niels Bohr -- The mechanism of nuclear fission / Niels Bohr and John A. Wheeler -- Reminiscences from the postwar years / Abraham Pais -- Part V. Bohr and politics -- Niels Bohr as a political figure / Ruth Moore -- Energy from the atom : an opportunity and a challenge / Niels Bohr -- Niels Bohr and nuclear weapons / Margaret Gowing -- Meetings in wartime and after / R.V. Jones -- Open letter to the United Nations / Niels Bohr -- Part VI. Philosophical ideas -- The philosophy of Niels Bohr / Aage Petersen -- Light and life / Niels Bohr -- Complementarity as a way of life / R.V. Jones -- The complementarity principle and eastern philosophy / D.S. Kothari -- Complementarity and Marxism-Leninism / Loren Graham -- Part VII. Epilogue -- A glimpse on the other side / Philip Morrison -- Some closing reflections / A.P. French |
| Analysis |
Physics Bohr, Niels |
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Physics Bohr, Niels 1885-1962 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
"Works by Niels Bohr": pages 385-391 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962.
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Physicists -- Denmark -- Biography.
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Physics -- Biography.
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Physics -- History.
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Physics -- history.
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften.
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Biographies.
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| Author |
Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962.
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French, A. P. (Anthony Philip), 1920-
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Kennedy, P. J., 1925-
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| LC no. |
85008542 |
| ISBN |
0674624157 |
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