The history of quantum theory By F. Hund. Pp 260. Harrap, London. 1974. E6a10

Lewis Elton

Friedrich Hund London: Harrap Books 1974 pp 260 price £6.10 This is a blow by blow account of the development of quantum theory from Planck's Ann. Phys. Lpz. 1900 article to Yukawa's in Proc. Phys. Math. Soc. Jap. in 1935.

Lewis Pyenson

J S Briggs

Max Born London: MIT Press 1972 pp xiv + 200 price £1·40 (paper) This is a paperback edition, in the series History of Science and Technology by MIT Press, of Born's classic course of lectures delivered at MIT in the winter of 1925–6. The first 20 lectures, on the 'old' and 'new' quantum theory, are literally history in the making as the elements of the new quantum theory were being assembled even as the series of lectures progressed.

F. Hund

Eric Deeson

W C Price et al (eds) London: Butterworths 1973 pp 435 price £12 Apart from claiming ruefully that the title of this book is ambiguous I can only praise it. The ambiguity led me to expect a history of the subject since the time of de Broglie's breakthrough: instead our £12 buys a collection of reviews of the state of the art in different fields.