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Physics Bulletin

The History of Quantum Theory

Lewis Elton

Published Sep 1, 1974• 24 citations
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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.
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10.1088/0031-9112/25/9/038

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