Order, Chaos, Order: The Transition from Classical to Quantum Physics

by Philip Stehle

This work, written for a wide audience and general readers, details the chaos produced in the physics community at the beginning of the 20th century by groundbreaking experimental findings and the theoretical speculations they engendered. It traces the slow and difficult birth of a new scientific order that resulted from the work of many of this century's most distinguished scientists, including Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Ernest Rutherford, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019508473X
• ISBN13: 9780195084733
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"