Niels Bohr: The Man, His Science, and the World They Changed

by Ruth Moore and Ruth Moore

Book Overview

This new paperback edition celebrates the centennial of the birth of one of the major theoretical physicists of our time. It is an engrossing account of an exciting period in history and science as well as a good introduction to nuclear physics for the nonscientist. Moving from Bohr's first great contribution - a description of what is essentially the modern picture of the atom, in 1913, for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1922 - the book covers his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262631016
• ISBN13: 9780262631013
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 16 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.