Diana Kormos Barkan, Buchwald, Diana Kormos Buchwald

Walther Nernst and the Transition to Modern Physical Science

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A 1999 biography of one of Germany's most important scientists (active 1890 1933) and an historical examination of physics and chemistry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 493g
• ISBN-13: 9780521176293
• ISBN-10: 0521176298
• Artikelnr.: 32302398

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and acknowledgments
1. The invention of identity
2. Beginning
3. The early researchers
4. The Göttingen years
5. The Nernst-Planck exchange
6. Electricity and iron
7. High temperatures and the heat theorem
8. Theory and heat theory
9. Berlin and low temperatures
10. The incorporation of the quantum theory
11. The witches Sabbath: the Solvay Congress
12. The Nobel Prize
Conclusion
Bibliography
Notes
Index.