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Author Aaserud, Finn.

Title Love, literature and the quantum atom : Niels Bohr's 1913 trilogy revisited / by Finn Aaserud, John L. Heilbron.

Publication Info. Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note Includes index.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary This title presents unpublished excerpts from extensive correspondence between Niels Bohr and his immediate family, and uses it to describe and analyze the psychological and cultural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.
Contents 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.
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Subject Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962 -- Correspondence.
Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962.
Genre/Form Correspondence.
Subject Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962 -- Family.
Families.
Nuclear physicists -- Denmark -- Correspondence.
Nuclear physicists.
Denmark.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Personal correspondence.
Personal correspondence.
Added Author Heilbron, J. L.
Other Form: Print version: Aaserud, Finn. Love, literature and the quantum atom 9780199680283 (OCoLC)851154204
ISBN 9780191669736 (electronic book)
0191669733 (electronic book)
9780199680283
0199680280