Hydrogen : the essential element /
Rigden, John S.
Hydrogen : the essential element / John S. Rigden. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002. - 280 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-270) and index.
In the beginning : hydrogen and the big bang -- Hydrogen and the unity of matter : the Prout hypothesis : William Prout, 1815 -- Hydrogen and the spectra of the chemical elements : a Swiss high school teacher finds a pattern : Johann Jakob Balmer, 1885 -- The Bohr model of hydrogen : a paradigm for the structure of atoms : Niels Bohr, 1913 -- Relativity meets the quantum in the hydrogen atom : Arnold Sommerfeld, 1916 -- The fine-structure constant : a strange number with universal significance : Arnold Sommerfeld, 1916 -- The birth of quantum mechanics : the hydrogen atom answers the "crucial question" : Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli, 1925-26, Paul Dirac, 1925-26 -- The hydrogen atom : midwife to the birth of wave mechanics : Erwin Schrd���?inger, 1926 -- The hydrogen atom and Dirac's theory of the electron : Paul Dirac, 1928 -- Hydrogen guides nuclear physicists : the discovery of deuterium : Harold Urey, 1932 -- Hubris meets hydrogen : the magnetic moment of the proton : Otto Stern, 1933 -- The magnetic resonance method : the origin of magnetic resonance imaging : I.I. Rabi, 1938 -- New nuclear forces required : the discovery of the quadrupole moment of the deuteron : Norman F. Ramsey and I.I. Rabi, 1939 -- Magnetic resonance in bulk matter (NMR) : Edward M. Purcell and Felix Bloch, 1946 -- Hydrogen's challenge to Dirac theory : quantum electrodynamics as the prototype physical theory : Willis Lamb, 1947 -- The hydrogen atom portends as anomaly with the electron : I.I. Rabi, John E. Nafe, and Edward B. Nelson, 1946 -- Hydrogen maps the galaxy : Edward M. Purcell and Harold Ewen, 1951 -- The hydrogen maser : a high-precision clock : Norman F. Ramsey and Daniel Kleppner, 1960 -- The Rydberg constant : a fundamental constant : Johannes Robert Rydberg, 1890, Theodor W. Hn��?�sch, 1992 -- The abundance of deuterium : a check on big bang cosmology : David N. Schramm, 1945-1997 -- Antihydrogen : the first antiatom -- The Bose-Einstein condensate for hydrogen : Satyendranath Bose, 1924, Albert Einstein, 1925, Eric A. Cornell and Carl E. Wieman, 1995, Daniel Kleppner and Tom Greytak, 1998 -- Exotic hydrogen-like atoms : from theory to technology. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23.
0674007387 (alk. paper)
2001051708
GBA2-X7803
Hydrogen.
Science--Methodology.
QD181.H1 / R54 2002
Hydrogen : the essential element / John S. Rigden. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002. - 280 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-270) and index.
In the beginning : hydrogen and the big bang -- Hydrogen and the unity of matter : the Prout hypothesis : William Prout, 1815 -- Hydrogen and the spectra of the chemical elements : a Swiss high school teacher finds a pattern : Johann Jakob Balmer, 1885 -- The Bohr model of hydrogen : a paradigm for the structure of atoms : Niels Bohr, 1913 -- Relativity meets the quantum in the hydrogen atom : Arnold Sommerfeld, 1916 -- The fine-structure constant : a strange number with universal significance : Arnold Sommerfeld, 1916 -- The birth of quantum mechanics : the hydrogen atom answers the "crucial question" : Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli, 1925-26, Paul Dirac, 1925-26 -- The hydrogen atom : midwife to the birth of wave mechanics : Erwin Schrd���?inger, 1926 -- The hydrogen atom and Dirac's theory of the electron : Paul Dirac, 1928 -- Hydrogen guides nuclear physicists : the discovery of deuterium : Harold Urey, 1932 -- Hubris meets hydrogen : the magnetic moment of the proton : Otto Stern, 1933 -- The magnetic resonance method : the origin of magnetic resonance imaging : I.I. Rabi, 1938 -- New nuclear forces required : the discovery of the quadrupole moment of the deuteron : Norman F. Ramsey and I.I. Rabi, 1939 -- Magnetic resonance in bulk matter (NMR) : Edward M. Purcell and Felix Bloch, 1946 -- Hydrogen's challenge to Dirac theory : quantum electrodynamics as the prototype physical theory : Willis Lamb, 1947 -- The hydrogen atom portends as anomaly with the electron : I.I. Rabi, John E. Nafe, and Edward B. Nelson, 1946 -- Hydrogen maps the galaxy : Edward M. Purcell and Harold Ewen, 1951 -- The hydrogen maser : a high-precision clock : Norman F. Ramsey and Daniel Kleppner, 1960 -- The Rydberg constant : a fundamental constant : Johannes Robert Rydberg, 1890, Theodor W. Hn��?�sch, 1992 -- The abundance of deuterium : a check on big bang cosmology : David N. Schramm, 1945-1997 -- Antihydrogen : the first antiatom -- The Bose-Einstein condensate for hydrogen : Satyendranath Bose, 1924, Albert Einstein, 1925, Eric A. Cornell and Carl E. Wieman, 1995, Daniel Kleppner and Tom Greytak, 1998 -- Exotic hydrogen-like atoms : from theory to technology. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23.
0674007387 (alk. paper)
2001051708
GBA2-X7803
Hydrogen.
Science--Methodology.
QD181.H1 / R54 2002