Physics Bulletin

New Perspectives in Physics

Grant Thomson

Published May 1, 1963• 28 citations

Abstract

By Louis de Brogue. Translated by A. J. Pomerans London: Oliver and Boyd Ltd . 1962. Pp. xii + 291. Price 30s. This book consists of a number of papers and lectures on theoretical physics and on the history and philosophy of science written during the period 1950—1956. The most important and original of these form a group of four essays on the interpretation of wave mechanics.

DOI: 10.1088/0031-9112/14/5/009

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