Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory (edition 1985)

by George Gamow

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Title:	Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory
Authors:	George Gamow
Info:	Dover Publications (1985), Paperback, 240 pages
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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.

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