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- catalog abstract ""This book is designed to serve as a guide to those who would explore the theories by which the scientist seeks to comprehend the mysterious world of the atom. Nuclear fission and atomic bombs are not the whole of atomic science. Behind them lie extraordinary ideas and stirring events without which our understanding would be meager indeed."--Preface.".
- catalog contributor b1263073.
- catalog created "[1947]".
- catalog date "1947".
- catalog date "[1947]".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "[1947]".
- catalog description ""This book is designed to serve as a guide to those who would explore the theories by which the scientist seeks to comprehend the mysterious world of the atom. Nuclear fission and atomic bombs are not the whole of atomic science. Behind them lie extraordinary ideas and stirring events without which our understanding would be meager indeed."--Preface.".
- catalog description "Prologue -- The quantum is conceived -- It comes to light -- Tweedledum and Tweedledee -- The atom of Niels Bohr -- The atom of Bohr Kneels -- Author's warning to the reader -- The exploits of the revolutionary prince -- Laundry lists are discarded -- The asceticism of Paul -- Electrons are smeared -- Unification -- The strange denouement -- The new landscape of science -- Epilogue.".
- catalog extent "xi p., 1 ℓ., 239 p.".
- catalog hasFormat "Strange story of the quantum.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Strange story of the quantum.".
- catalog issued "1947".
- catalog issued "[1947]".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, London, Harper & Brothers".
- catalog relation "Strange story of the quantum.".
- catalog subject "530.1".
- catalog subject "Atoms.".
- catalog subject "Nuclear Physics".
- catalog subject "Nuclear physics.".
- catalog subject "QC174.1 .H6".
- catalog subject "Quantum Theory".
- catalog subject "Quantum theory.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue -- The quantum is conceived -- It comes to light -- Tweedledum and Tweedledee -- The atom of Niels Bohr -- The atom of Bohr Kneels -- Author's warning to the reader -- The exploits of the revolutionary prince -- Laundry lists are discarded -- The asceticism of Paul -- Electrons are smeared -- Unification -- The strange denouement -- The new landscape of science -- Epilogue.".
- catalog title "The strange story of the quantum, an account for the general reader of the growth of the ideas underlying our present atomic knowledge, by Banesh Hoffmann ...".
- catalog type "text".