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Physics Bulletin

Wave Mechanics: The First Fifty Years

Eric Deeson

Published Mar 1, 1974• 159 citations
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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.

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10.1088/0031-9112/25/3/030

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