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| Preface | |
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| From Consolidation to Revolution | |
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| Fin-de-Siecle Physics: A World Picture in Flux | |
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| The World of Physics | |
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| Personnel and Resources | |
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| Physics Journals | |
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| A Japanese Look at European Physics | |
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| Discharges in Gases and What Followed | |
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| A New Kind of Rays | |
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| From Becquerel Rays to Radioactivity | |
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| Spurious Rays, More or Less | |
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| The Electron before Thomson | |
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| The First Elementary Particle | |
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| Atomic Architecture | |
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| The Thomson Atom | |
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| Other Early Atomic Models | |
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| Rutherford's Nuclear Atom | |
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| A Quantum Theory of Atomic Structure | |
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| The Slow Rise of Quantum Theory | |
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| The Law of Blackbody Radiation | |
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| Early Discussions of the Quantum Hypothesis | |
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| Einstein and the Photon | |
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| Specific Heats and the Status of Quantum Theory by 1913 | |
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| Physics at Low Temperatures | |
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| The Race Toward Zero | |
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| Kammerlingh Onnes and the Leiden Laboratory | |
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| Superconductivity | |
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| Einstein's Relativity, and Others' | |
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| The Lorentz Transformations | |
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| Einsteinian Relativity | |
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| From Special to General Relativity | |
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| Reception | |
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| A Revolution that Failed | |
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| The Concept of Electromagnetic Mass | |
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| Electron Theory as a Worldview | |
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| Mass Variation Experiments | |
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| Decline of a Worldview | |
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| Unified Field Theories | |
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| Physics in Industry and War | |
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| Industrial Physics | |
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| Electrons at Work, I: Long-Distance Telephony | |
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| Electrons at Work, II: Vacuum Tubes | |
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| Physics in the Chemists' War | |
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| From Revolution to Consolidation | |
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| Science and Politics in the Weimar Republic | |
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| Science Policy and Financial Support | |
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| International Relations | |
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| The Physics Community | |
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| Zeitgeist and the Physical Worldview | |
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| Quantum Jumps | |
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| Quantum Anomalies | |
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| Heisenberg's Quantum Mechanics | |
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| Schrodinger's Equation | |
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| Dissemination and Receptions | |
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| The Rise of Nuclear Physics | |
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| The Electron-Proton Model | |
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| Quantum Mechanics and the Nucleus | |
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| Astrophysical Applications | |
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| 1932, Annus Mirabilis | |
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| From Two to Many Particles | |
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| Antiparticles | |
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| Surprises from the Cosmic Radiation | |
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| Crisis in Quantum Theory | |
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| Yukawa's Heavy Quantum | |
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| Philosophical Implications of Quantum Mechanics | |
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| Uncertainty and Complementarity | |
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| Against the Copenhagen Interpretation | |
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| Is Quantum Mechanics Complete? | |
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| Eddington's Dream and Other Heterodoxies | |
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| Eddington's Fundamentalism | |
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| Cosmonumerology and Other Speculations | |
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| Milne and Cosmophysics | |
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| The Modern Aristotelians | |
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| Physics and the New Dictatorships | |
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| In the Shadow of the Swastika | |
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| Aryan Physics | |
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| Physics in Mussolini's Italy | |
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| Physics, Dialectical Materialism, and Stalinism | |
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| Brain Drain and Brain Gain | |
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| American Physics in the 1930s | |
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| Intellectual Migrations | |
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| From Uranium Puzzle to Hiroshima | |
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| The Road to Fission | |
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| More than Moonshine | |
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| Toward the Bomb | |
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| The Death of Two Cities | |
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| Progress and Problems | |
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| Nuclear Themes | |
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| Physics of Atomic Nuclei | |
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| Modern Alchemy | |
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| Hopes and Perils of Nuclear Energy | |
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| Controlled Fusion Energy | |
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| Militarization and Megatrends | |
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| Physics--A Branch of the Military? | |
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| Big Machines | |
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| A European Big Science Adventure | |
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| Particle Discoveries | |
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| Mainly Mesons | |
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| Weak Interactions | |
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| Quarks | |
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| The Growth of Particle Physics | |
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| Fundamental Theories | |
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| QED | |
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| The Ups and Downs of Field Theory | |
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| Gauge Fields and Electroweak Unification | |
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| Quantum Chromodynamics | |
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| Cosmology and the Renaissance of Relativity | |
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| Toward the Big Bang Universe | |
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| The Steady State Challenge | |
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| Cosmology after 1960 | |
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| The Renaissance of General Relativity | |
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| Elements of Solid State Physics | |
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| The Solid State Before 1940 | |
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| Semiconductors and the Rise of the Solid State Community | |
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| Breakthroughs in Superconductivity | |
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| Engineering Physics and Quantum Electronics | |
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| It Started with the Transistor | |
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| Microwaves, the Laser, and Quantum Optics | |
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| Optical Fibers | |
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| Science under Attack--Physics in Crisis? | |
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| Signs of Crisis | |
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| A Revolt against Science | |
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| The End of Physics? | |
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| Unifications and Speculations | |
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| The Problem of Unity | |
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| Grand Unified Theories | |
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| Superstring Theory | |
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| Quantum Cosmology | |
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| A Look Back | |
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| Nobel Physics | |
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| A Century of Physics in Retrospect | |
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| Growth and Progress | |
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| Physics and the Other Sciences | |
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| Conservative Revolutions | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |