- Description
- 1 online resource (xv, 484 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits.
- Summary
- This history of nuclear physics sets the experimental innovations and theoretical breakthroughs in the field in the period between the two World Wars within the contexts of the lives and personalities of the physicists who made them and the physical, intellectual, and political environments of the countries and institutions in which they worked.--
- Uniform Title
- Age of innocence (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Age of innocence (Online)
- Nuclear physics between the First and Second World Wars
- Subject
- Nuclear physics > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 418-454) and indexes.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Cambridge and the Cavendish -- European and nuclear disintergration -- Vienna and the Institute for Radium Research -- The Cambridge-Vienna controversy -- The quantum-mechanical nucleus -- Nuclear electrons and nuclear structure -- New Particles -- New Machines -- Nuclear physicists at the crossroads -- Exiles and immigrants -- Artificial radioactivity -- Beta decay redux, slow neutrons, Bohr and his realm -- New theories of nuclear reactions -- The plague spreads to Austria and Italy -- The new world.
- LCCN
- 2018933081
- OCLC
- ssj0002064769
- Author
Stuewer, Roger H.
- Title
The age of innocence [electronic resource] : nuclear physics between the First and Second World Wars / Roger H. Stuewer (University of Minnesota).
- Imprint
Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Edition
First edition.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 418-454) and indexes.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Other Form:
Electronic version: Stuewer, Roger H. Age of innocence. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018 9780192562906 (OCoLC)1044733890