The heroic age the creation of quantum mechanics, 1925-1940 Purrington, Robert D. creator author. EBSCOhost text bibliography Electronic books. nyu 2018 monographic eng remote 1 online resource. "Clouds on the horizon": nineteenth-century origins and the old quantum theory -- 1913: the Bohr theory of the hydrogen atom -- Tyranny of data: atomic spectroscopy to 1925 -- After the war: quantum theory adrift; the correspondence princple -- At the creation: the "new quantum theory" -- The origins of wave mechanics -- The end of certainty: uncertainty and indeterminism -- Formalism, part I. Transformation theory -- Formalism, part II. unitarity and Hilbert space -- Intrinisc spin, the exclusion principle, and statistics -- Angular momentum, symmetries, and conservation laws -- Scattering and reaction theory -- Relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum field theory to 1940: the rise of particle physics -- Foundations and philosophy of quantum mechanics: interpretation and the measurement problem -- Nuclear physics: the first three decades -- Quantum theory and the birth of stellar astrophysics -- Atomic and molecular physics -- Condensed matter: solids and quantum liquids -- Epilogue. Robert D. Purrington. Electronic resource. Includes bibliographical references and index. Quantum theory History 20th century 1900-1999 fast QC173.98 .P87 2018 530.12/09043 Heroic age Purrington, Robert D. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018] (DLC) 2017033532 9780190655181 0190655186 9780190655174 0190655178 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1668815 NhCcYBP 171228 20260609153802.7 in00003964489