The quantum story a history in 40 moments

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baggott, J. E.
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a22000008a 4500
001 ocn663438460
003 OCoLC
005 20110524121800.0
008 100902s2011 enkacf b 001 0 eng
015 |a GBB0A6935  |2 bnb 
016 7 |a 015643549  |2 Uk 
020 |a 9780199566846 (hbk.) :  |c $29.95 
020 |a 0199566844 (hbk.) 
035 |a (OCoLC)663438460 
040 |a UKM  |c UKM  |d YDXCP  |d VA@  |d CDX  |d ABG  |d VP@  |d COH  |d PCB 
050 1 4 |a QC173.98  |b .B34 2011 
082 0 4 |a 530.12/09  |2 22 
100 1 |a Baggott, J. E. 
245 1 4 |a The quantum story :  |b a history in 40 moments /  |c Jim Baggott. 
260 |a Oxford ;  |a New York :  |b Oxford University Press,  |c 2011. 
300 |a xix, 469 p., [16] p. of plates :  |b ill., ports. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-447) and index. 
505 0 |a Stormclouds : London, April 1900 -- Quantum of action. The most strenuous work of my life : Berlin, December 1900 ; Annus Mirabilis : Bern, March 1905 ; A little bit of reality : Manchester, April 1913 ; la Comédie Française : Paris, September 1923 ; A strangely beautiful interior : Helgoland, June 1925 ; The self-rotating electron : Leiden, November 1925 ; A late erotic outburst : Swiss Alps, Christmas 1925 -- Quantum interpretation. Ghost field : Oxford, August 1926 ; All this damned quantum jumping : Copenhagen, October 1926 ; The uncertainty principle : Copenhagen, February 1927 ; The 'Kopenhagener geist' : Copenhagen, June 1927 ; There is no quantum world : Lake Como, September 1927 -- Quantum debate. The debate commences : Brussels, October 1927 ; An absolute wonder : Cambridge, Christmas 1927 ; The photon box : Brussels, October 1930 ; A Bolt from the blue : Princeton, May 1935 ; The paradox of Schrödinger's cat : Oxford, August 1935 ; Interlude : The first war of physics : Christmas 1938-August 1945 -- Quantum fields. Shelter Island : Long Island, June 1947 ; Pictorial semi-vision thing : New York, January 1949 ; A beautiful idea : Princeton, February 1954 ; Some strangeness in the proportion : Rochester, August 1960 ; Three quarks for Muster Mark! : New York, March 1963 ; The 'God particle' : Cambridge, Massachusetts, Autumn 1967 -- Quantum particles. Deep inelastic scattering : Stanford, August 1968 ; Of charm and weak neutral currents : Harvard, February 1970 ; The magic of colour : Princeton/Harvard, April 1973 ; The November revolution : Long Island/Stanford, November 1974 ; Intermediate vector bosons : Geneva, January/June 1983 ; The standard model : Geneva, September 2003 -- Quantum reality. Hidden variable : Princeton, Spring 1951 ; Bertlmann's socks : Boston, September 1964 ; The Aspect experiments : Paris, September 1982 ; The quantum eraser : Baltimore, January 1999 ; Lab cats : Stony Brook/Delft, July 2000 ; The persistent illusion : Vienna, December 2006 -- Quantum cosmology. The wavefunction of the universe : Princeton, July 1966 ; Hawking radiation : Oxford, February 1974 ; The first superstring revolution : Aspen, August 1984 ; Quanta of space and time : Santa Barbara, February 1986 ; Crisis? What crisis? : Durham, Summer 1994 -- A quantum of solace? : Geneva, March 2010. 
650 0 |a Quantum theory  |x History. 
690 0 |a Stein, Sylvia tribute. 
938 |a YBP Library Services  |b YANK  |n 100555168 
938 |a Coutts Information Services  |b COUT  |n 14690528 
994 |a C0  |b PCB 
949 |a schlow  |b SANON  |c 530.12 BAG  |d o  |e 39635102771224  |f 469839  |g ddc  |j 05/05/2011 
999 |a 319373