Bibliograph

Faust in Copenhagen, a struggle for the soul of physics, Gino Segrè

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Faust in Copenhagen, a struggle for the soul of physics, Gino Segrè

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [276]-297) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Faust in Copenhagen

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

76416691

Responsibility statement

Gino Segrè

Sub title

a struggle for the soul of physics

Summary

In 1932, about forty of the world's leading physicists came to Niels Bohr's Copenhagen Institute for their annual informal meeting about the frontiers of physics, which ended with a humorous skit based on Goethe's Faust

Table Of Contents

Munich then and now -- The changing times -- Goethe and Faust -- The front row: the old guard -- The front row: the revolutionaries -- The front row: the young ones -- The coming storm -- The revolution begins -- The king in decline -- The great snthesis -- Conservation of energy -- The new generation comes of age -- The miracle year -- Ehrenfest's end -- Epilogue: or, what happened afterward to the front row's other six

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