Book ID: CBB662743037

John Stewart Bell and Twentieth-Century Physics: Vision and Integrity (2016)

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Whitaker, Andrew (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 480
Language: English

John Stewart Bell (1928-1990) was one of the most important figures in twentieth-century physics, famous for his work on the fundamental aspects of the century's most important theory, quantum mechanics. While the debate over quantum theory between the supremely famous physicists, AlbertEinstein and Niels Bohr, appeared to have become sterile in the 1930s, Bell was able to revive it and to make crucial advances - Bell's Theorem or Bell's Inequalities. He was able to demonstrate a contradiction between quantum theory and essential elements of pre-quantum theory - locality andcausality. The book gives a non-mathematical account of Bell's relatively impoverished upbringing in Belfast and his education. It describes his major contributions to quantum theory, but also his important work in the physics of accelerators, and nuclear and elementary particle physics.

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Authors & Contributors
Bernstein, Jeremy
Michael Wiescher
Becker, Adam
Päs, Heinrich
Wittje, Roland
Wilson, E. J. N.
Concepts
Physics
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Quantum mechanics
Particle accelerators
Biographies
Theoretical physics
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
Germany
Copenhagen (Denmark)
United States
Norway
Japan
Australia
Institutions
Sanford Underground Research Facility
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (United States)
Rikagaku Kenkyu-Jo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
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