Mehra J. The golden age of theoretical physics. Vol. 1

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World Scientific, 2001. - 658 pp.
"The Golden Age of Theoretical Physics" contains 34 essays on the history of quantum and relativity theories and their applications. Most of the essays were presented as lectures at various universities in Europe and the USA by Jagdish Mehra, while some were published individually and in collaboration with Helmut Rechenberg. This book deals with the most important themes developed in the first 40 years of the 20th century by some of the greatest pioneers and architects of mode physics. It is a vital source of information about what can be described as "the golden age of theoretical physics".
Contents of Vol. 1:
Albert Einstein's ‘First’ Paper
Max Planck and the Law of Blackbody Radiation
Planck's Half-Quanta: A History of the Concept of Zero-Point Energy
Josiah Willard Gibbs and the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics
Einstein and the Foundation of Statistical Mechanics
Albert Einstein and Marian von Smoluchowski: Early History of the Theory of Fluctuation Phenomena
The Historical Origins of the Special Theory of Relativity
The Historical Origins of the General Theory of Relativity
Albert Einstein and the Origin of Light-Quantum Theory
Niels Bohr and the Quantum Theory of the Atom
Aold Sommerfeld and Atoms as Conditionally Periodic Systems
The G?ttingen Tradition of Mathematics and Physics from Gauss to Hilbert and Bo and Franck
The Bohr Festival in G?ttingen: Bohr's Wolfskehl Lectures and the Theory of the Periodic System of Elements
Satyendra Nath Bose, Bose–Einstein Statistics, and the Quantum Theory of an Ideal Gas
Louis de Broglie and the Phase Waves Associated with Matter
Wolfgang Pauli and the Discovery of the Exclusion Principle
The Discovery of Electron Spin
The Discovery of the Fermi–Dirac Statistics

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