This book gives a fascinating account of the evolution of the ideas and concepts of quantum theory and modern physics, written by an "insider" but aimed specifically at the general science readers.

Preface	p. 9
Origins	p. 11
Atoms	p. 14
Waves	p. 17
Quanta	p. 19
Quantumalia: Before and After Democritus	p. 21
Quantumalia: Titus Lucretius Carus	p. 22
Quantumalia: Isaac Newton on Atoms	p. 24
Spectra	p. 25
Ions	p. 28
Radiant Matter	p. 29
Atoms, Electrons, Waves	p. 32
Quantumalia: Discovery of Spectral Analysis	p. 33
Quantumalia: The Beginnings of Television	p. 34
Quantumalia: William Crookes	p. 35
Quantumalia: Kinetic Theory of Gases	p. 36
Quantumalia: Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov	p. 37
The Planetary Atom	p. 40
Spectral Series	p. 41
Photons	p. 44
Victory of Atomistics	p. 47
Quantumalia: The Indivisible Atom	p. 48
Quantumalia: The Diffraction Grating	p. 49
Quantumalia: Just What Hath Rutherford Wrought?	p. 50
Quantumalia: Light Pressure	p. 51
Pre-Bohr Times	p. 52
The Bohr Atom	p. 53
Post-Bohr Times	p. 56
Formal Model of the Atom	p. 57
Quantumalia: Niels Henrik David Bohr	p. 60
Quantumalia: Experimental Proof of Bohr's Postulates	p. 61
Teachings of the Ancients	p. 64
First Attempts	p. 64
Elements and Atoms	p. 67
Table of Elements	p. 69
The Periodic Law	p. 70
Quantumalia: Atoms and People	p. 74
Ideas	p. 77
Contemporaries Comment on Bohr's Theory	p. 80
Phenomenon, Image, Concept, Formula	p. 81
Heisenberg's Matrix Mechanics	p. 83
Quantumalia: The Foundation of Physics	p. 86
Louis de Broglie	p. 89
Matter Waves	p. 90
Optical-Mechanical Analogy	p. 92
Schrodinger's Wave Mechanics	p. 93
Quantumalia: The Life of Boscovich...	p. 95
Quantumalia: ...and His Atom	p. 96
Quantumalia: Paul Ehrenfest (1880-1933)	p. 97
Schrodinger's Equation	p. 101
The Meaning of the [Psi] Function	p. 102
The Image of the Atom	p. 103
Quantum Truth	p. 105
Quantumalia: Compton's Experiment	p. 106
Quantumalia: Electron Diffraction	p. 109
Wave-Particle Duality	p. 110
Uncertainty Relation	p. 111
Complementarity Principle	p. 113
Quantumalia: Duality and Uncertainty	p. 117
Quantumalia: Poets and the Complementarity Principle	p. 118
Heads or Tails and Target Shooting	p. 120
Electron Diffraction	p. 122
Probability Waves	p. 123
Electron Waves	p. 124
The Atom and Probability	p. 125
Probability and Atomic Spectra	p. 126
Causality and Chance, Probability and Certainty	p. 127
Quantumalia: People, Events, Quanta	p. 129
What is an Atom? What is Quantum Mechanics?	p. 136
Physical Reality	p. 138
Quantumalia: In Search of the Last Concepts	p. 141
Results	p. 145
Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen	p. 147
Antoine Henri Becquerel	p. 149
Pierre and Marie Curie	p. 151
Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy	p. 152
The Energy of Radium	p. 155
Quantumalia: X ray Waves	p. 155
The Chemistry of Radioelements	p. 158
Isotopes	p. 159
Uranium Family	p. 161
Stable Isotopes	p. 162
Radioactive Decay Energy	p. 163
Nuclear Binding Energy	p. 166
Quantumalia: Uranium	p. 167
Quantumalia: Earth and Radium	p. 168
Quantumalia: Knights of the Fifth Decimal Place	p. 168
Probing into the Nucleus	p. 170
The Neutron	p. 172
Artificial Radioactivity	p. 173
Slow Neutrons	p. 174
Nuclear Fission	p. 176
Quantumalia: Letters about Fission	p. 178
Tunnel Effect	p. 180
Effective Cross-sections of Reactions	p. 184
Neutron Cross-sections	p. 185
Nuclear Fission	p. 188
Quantumalia: Labelled Atoms	p. 189
Quantumalia: Radiocarbon Dating	p. 190
Chain Reaction	p. 193
Nuclear Reactor	p. 198
Quantumalia: Spontaneous Fission of Uranium	p. 200
Quantumalia: The Natural Nuclear Reactor at Oklo	p. 200
Atomic Energy	p. 203
Plutonium	p. 204
The Atomic Bomb	p. 206
The Atomic Problem	p. 208
Quantumalia: A Chronology of the Atomic Era	p. 209
Quantumalia: Soddy on Atomic Energy	p. 214
Solar Light	p. 218
Crucibles of Elements	p. 220
The Fate of the Sun	p. 223
The Sun, Life, and Chlorophyll	p. 225
Quantumalia: Life under the Sun	p. 228
Quantumalia: A Sun on Earth	p. 231
Quantumalia: Quanta Around Us	p. 231
Reflections	p. 233
Inception of the Scientific Method	p. 236
Essence of the Scientific Method and its Development	p. 238
Truth and Completeness of the Scientific Picture of the World	p. 240
Science and Humanity	p. 242
Boundaries of the Scientific Method	p. 243
Science and Art	p. 244
Future of Science	p. 247
Epilogue	p. 248
Subject Index	p. 249
Name Index	p. 251
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