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Thirty years that shook physics: the story of quantum theory/

Gamow, George

Thirty years that shook physics: the story of quantum theory/ [by] George Gamow - Dover ed. - New York : Dover Publications, 1985, c1966. - xiv, 224 p., [9] leaves of plates: ill.; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Entertaining, rigorous introduction to the development of Quantum Theory traces its history--from Max Planck's revolutionary discovery of quanta and Niels Bohr's model of the atom to anti-particles, mesons, and Enrico Fermi's nuclear research. Numerous line drawings. 1966 ed.

9780486248950 (pbk.): USD 14.95 = Physics

85006797


Quantum theory.
Physics--History.
Physics

530.12 / GAM/T