Book ID: CBB000083187

The Solvay Councils and the birth of modern physics (1999)

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Birkhäuser


Publication Date: 1999
Edition Details: Editors: Marage, Pierre, Wallenborn, Grégoire
Physical Details: xiii + 224 pp.; illus.; notes; index

Description Contents: Stengers, Isabelle: Preface: When physicists held a “witches' sabbath”. Devriese, Didier, Wallenborn, Grégoire: Ernest Solvay: The system, the law and the Council. Hughes, Jeff: Rutherford, the Cavendish Laboratory and the Solvay Councils. Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette: Paul Langevin and the French scientists at the Solvay Conferences. Crawford, Elisabeth: The Solvay Councils and the Nobel Institution. Vanpaemel, Geert: The organisation of science in the 19th century. Marage, Pierre, Wallenborn, Grégoire: Physics prior to the first Council. Marage, Pierre, Wallenborn, Grégoire: The birth of modern physics.


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Authors & Contributors
Freire, Olival, Jr.
Kojima, Chieko
Stuewer, Roger H.
Romer, Alfred
Paty, Michel
Olivella, Josep
Concepts
Quantum mechanics
Relativity
Sonar
Piezoelectricity
International relations
Electricity; magnetism
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
Places
France
Australia
Great Britain
Institutions
Mars Exploration Rover Mission (U.S.)
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