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9780199544691

The Harvest of a Century Discoveries of Modern Physics in 100 Episodes

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    9780199544691

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    0199544697

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-01-15
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Physics was the leading science of the twentieth century and the book retraces important discoveries, made between 1895 and 2001, in 100 self-contained Episodes. Each is a short story of the scientists involved, their time and their work. Together, they formed a mosaic of modern physics: formulating relativity and quantum mechanics, finding the constituents of matter and unravelling the forces between them, understanding the working of conductors and semiconductors, discovering and explaining macroscopic quantum effects (superconductivity, superfluidity, quantum Hall effect), developing novel experimental techniques like the Geiger counter and particle accelerators, building revolutionary applications like the transistor and the laser, and observing astonishing features of our cosmos (expanding universe, cosmic background radiation). The text is intended for easy reading. Occasionally, a more thorough discussion of experimental set-ups and theoretical concepts is presented in special boxes for readers interested in more detail. Episodes contain extensive references to biographies and original scientific literature. The book is richly illustrated by about 600 portraits, photographs and figures.

Author Biography


Siegmund Brandt
Professor Emeritus
Physics Department
University of Siegen
Germany Born 1936 in Berlin.
Diploma 1959 and Ph.D. 1963 under Wolfgang Paul at Bonn University.
Staff member at CERN 1962-65.
Privatdozent at Heidelberg University 1966-72.
Professor of Physics at Siegen University since 1972 , member of the Foundation Senate 1972-80, Professor Emeritus since 2001.
Participation in particle-physics experiments at the accelerator centres CERN and DESY, starting 1961.
Co-author and author of textbooks on different field of physics and on data analysis,
which appeared in ten languages.
Chairman, Particle Physics Section, German Physical Society 1986-89.
Chairman, Scientific Council, DESY 1990--93.
Member, Scientific-Technical Council, Research Centre Julich 1982--2002.

Table of Contents

Rontgen''s X Rays (1895)
Becquerel Discovers Radioactivity (1896)
Zeeman and Lorentz - A First Glimpse at the Electron (1896)
The Discovery of the Electron (1897)
Marie and Pierre Curie - Polonium and Radium (1898)
Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Rays (1899)
Max Planck and the Quantum of Action (1900)
Rutherford Finds the Law of Radioactive Decay (1900)
The Transmutation of Elements (1902)
Einstein''s Light-Quantum Hypothesis (1905)
Einstein Creates the Special Theory of Relativity (1905)
Nernst and the Third Theorem of Thermodynamics (1905)
Observing a Single Particle - The Rutherford-Geiger Counter and Later Electronic Detectors (1908)
Jean Perrin and Molecular Reality (1909)
Millikan''s Oil-Drop Experiment (1910)
The Atomic Nucleus (1911)
Tracks of Single Particles in Wilson''s Cloud Chamber (1911)
Kamerlingh Onnes, Liquid Helium and Superconductivity (1911)
Hess Finds Cosmic Radiation (1912)
Max von Laue - X Rays and Crystals (1912)
Bragg Scattering (1912)
Identifies Isotopes (1912)
Bohr''s Model of the Atom (1913)
Moseley and the Periodic Table of Elements (1913)
The Franck-Hertz Experiment (1914)
Einstein Completes the General Theory of Relativity (1915)
Sommerfeld - Spatial Quantisation and Fine Structure (1916)
Nitrogen is Turned into Oxygen (1919)
Astronomers Verify General Relativity (1919)
Stern and Gerlach Observe Spatial Quantisation (1922)
The Compton Effect - The Light Quantum Gains Momentum (1923)
MatterWaves Proposed by de Broglie (1923)
Bose and Einstein- A New Way of Counting (1924)
Bothe and Geiger - Coincidence Experiments (1925)
Pauli''s Exclusion Principle (1925)
Spin (1925)
Heisenberg and the Creation of Quantum Mechanics (1925)
Dirac''s Mechanics of q Numbers (1925)
Schrodinger Creates Wave Mechanics (1926)
Born''s Probability Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (1926)
Fermi-Dirac Statistics-Yet Another Way of Counting (1926)
Heisenberg''s Uncertainty Principle and Bohr''s Complementarity (1927)
Quantum Mechanics and Relativity - The Dirac Equation (1928)
Band Model of Conductors and Semiconductors (1928-31)
Hubble Finds that the Universe is Expanding (1929)
Pauli Presents His Neutrino Hypothesis (1930)
Lawrence and the Cyclotron (1931)
Chadwick Discovers the Neutron (1932)
Anderson Discovers the Positron (1932)
Nuclear Reaction Brought About by Machine (1932)
Heisenberg on Nuclear Forces: Isospin (1932)
The Proton Displays an "Anomalous" Magnetic Moment (1933)
Fermi''s Theory of Beta Rays (1933)
Irene and Frederic Joliot-Curie - Artificial Radioactivity (1934)
Fermi Produces Radioactivity with Neutrons (1934)
Cherenkov Radiation Discovered (1934)and Explained (1937)
Prediction of the Meson (1934)- Discovery of the Muon (1937)
A New Kind of Liquid: Superfluid Helium (1937)
Why the Stars Shine (1938)
Nuclear Fission (1938)
Two Transuranium Elements Finally Found - Neptunium and Plutonium (1940/1941)
Landau Explains Superfluidity (1941)
Fermi Builds a Nuclear Reactor (1942)
The Synchrotron: Phase Stability (1945)and Strong Focussing (1952)
Magnetic Resonance (1945)
The Pi Meson Discovered by the Photographic Method (1947)
The Lamb Shift (1947)
Strange Particles (1947)
The Transistor (1947)
The Shell Model - A Periodic Table for Nuclei (1949)
Quantum Electrodynamics and Feynman Diagrams (1949)
Glaser''s Bubble Chamber (1953)
The Maser (1954)
Strangeness - A New Quantum Number (1955)
Antimatter (1955)
The Neutrino Finally Observed (1956)
Parity - A Symmetry Broken (1957)
Superconductivity Explained by Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer (1957)
Weak Interaction Better Understood - The V ? A Theory (1957)
Keeping Ions in a Trap (1958)
The Mossbauer Effect (1958)
The Laser (1960)
Particle-Antiparticle Colliders (1961)
Nonlinear Optics (1961)
There Is More than One Kind of Neut
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