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100 1 $aGribbin, John,$d1946-
245 10 $aErwin Schrödinger and the quantum revolution /$cJohn Gribbin.
260 $aLondon :$bBantam Press,$c2012.
300 $a322 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates (some color) :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $a1. Nineteenth-Century Boy -- Antecedents -- Early years -- An empire's last hurrah -- Scientific stirrings -- From schoolboy to undergraduate -- 2. Physics before Schrodinger -- Newton and the world of particles -- Maxwell and the world of waves -- Boltzmann and the world of statistics -- 3. Twentieth-Century Man -- Student life -- Life beyond the lab -- War service on the Italian front -- Back to Vienna -- The aftermath -- The peripatetic professor -- 4. The First Quantum Revolution -- When black bodies are bright -- Enter the quantum -- The quantum becomes real -- Inside the atom -- Tripping the light fantastic -- Einstein again -- 5. Solid Swiss Respectability -- The university and the ETH -- Personal problems and scientific progress -- Physics and philosophy -- Life and love -- `My world view' -- Quantum statistics -- 6. Matrix Mechanics -- Half-truths -- What you see is what you get -- Matrices don't commute -- Justice isn't always done.
505 0 $aNote continued: 7. Schrodinger and the Second Quantum Revolution -- Science and sensuality -- Riding the wave -- A quantum of uncertainty -- The Copenhagen consensus -- 8. The Big Time in Berlin -- Making waves in America -- Berlin and Brussels -- The golden years -- Back to the future -- People and politics -- 9. The Coming of the Quantum Cat -- Back in the USA -- Oxford and beyond -- Faster than light? -- The cat in the box -- From Oxford with love -- 10. There, and Back Again -- Whistling, in the dark -- Reality bites -- The unhappy return -- Belgian interlude -- 11.`The happiest years of my life' -- `Dev' -- Settling in -- Early days at the DIAS -- `Family' life in Dublin -- The post-war years -- Many worlds -- 12. What is Life? -- Life itself -- Quantum chemistry -- The green pamphlet -- Schrodinger's variation on the theme -- The double helix -- 13. Back to Vienna -- Farewell to Dublin -- Home is the hero -- Declining years -- The triumph of entropy.
505 0 $aNote continued: 14. Schrodinger's Scientific Legacy -- Hidden reality and a mathematician's mistake -- The Bell test and the Aspect experiment -- Quantum cryptography and the `no cloning' theorem -- Quantum teleportation and classical information -- The quantum computer and the Multiverse -- Quantum physics and reality.
505 0 $aMachine generated contents note: 1. Nineteenth-Century Boy -- Antecedents -- Early years -- An empire's last hurrah -- Scientific stirrings -- From schoolboy to undergraduate -- 2. Physics before Schrodinger -- Newton and the world of particles -- Maxwell and the world of waves -- Boltzmann and the world of statistics -- 3. Twentieth-Century Man -- Student life -- Life beyond the lab -- War service on the Italian front -- Back to Vienna -- The aftermath -- The peripatetic professor -- 4. The First Quantum Revolution -- When black bodies are bright -- Enter the quantum -- The quantum becomes real -- Inside the atom -- Tripping the light fantastic -- Einstein again -- 5. Solid Swiss Respectability -- The university and the ETH -- Personal problems and scientific progress -- Physics and philosophy -- Life and love -- `My world view' -- Quantum statistics -- 6. Matrix Mechanics -- Half-truths -- What you see is what you get -- Matrices don't commute -- Justice isn't always done.
520 $a"Erwin Schrödinger was an Austrian physicist famous for his contribution to quantum physics. He won the Nobel Prize in 1933 and is best known for his thought experiment of a cat in a box, both alive and dead at the same time, which revealed the seemingly paradoxical nature of quantum mechanics. Schrödinger was working at one of the most fertile and creative moments in the whole history of science. By the time he started university in 1906, [Albert] Einstein had already published his revolutionary papers on relativity [in the preceding year]. Now the baton of scientific progress was being passed to a new generation: Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, Niels Bohr and, of course, Schrödinger himself. ..."--Jacket.
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