Hydrogen : the essential element / John S. Rigden.

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

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

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