TY - BOOK AU - Rigden,John S. TI - Hydrogen: the essential element SN - 0674007387 (alk. paper) AV - QD181.H1 R54 2002 PY - 2002/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - Harvard University Press KW - Hydrogen KW - Science KW - Methodology N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2001051708.h tml ER -