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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 | |