The Historical Development of Quantum Theory Volume 1 Parts 1 and 2: The Quantum Theory of Planck, Einstein, Bohr and Sommerfeld – Its Foundation and the Rise of its Difficulties 1900–1925
Maurice Ebison
J Mehra and H Rechenberg 1982 Berlin: Springer Part 1 xlvii + 372 pp price DM75 ISBN 3 540 90642 8, Part 2 vi + 878 pp price DM85 ISBN 3 540 90667 3 These two volumes, which are the first of a massive ten-part enterprise, provide an exhaustive treatment of the foundation of quantum theory by Planck, Einstein, Bohr and Sommerfeld and the advent of its difficulties in the first quarter of the 20th century. The chief aim of the authors was to use the written resources and the recollections of leading physicists to describe the main ideas of and events in the birth of quantum theory.
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