Thirty Years that Shook Physics The Story of Quantum Theory
, by Gamow, GeorgeNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780486248950 | 048624895X
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 7/1/1985
Entertaining, rigorous introduction to the development of quantum theory traces the subject's history, from Max Planck's revolutionary discovery of quanta and Niels Bohr's model of the atom to anti-particles, mesons, and Enrico Fermi's nuclear research. Numerous line drawings. 1966 edition.