Atoms, Metaphors and Paradoxes: Niels Bohr and the Construction of a New Physics

by Sandro Petruccioli

Book Overview

This book gives a detailed study of the development and the interpretation given to Niels Bohr's Principle of Correspondence. It also describes the role that this principle played in guiding Bohr's research over the critical period from 1920 to 1927. Quantum mechanics, developed in the 1920s and 1930s by Bohr, Heisenberg, Born, Schr?dinger and Dirac, represents one of the most profound turning points in science. This theory required a wholly new kind...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521031885
• ISBN13: 9780521031882
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"