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Redirecting Science

Niels Bohr, Philanthropy, and the Rise of Nuclear Physics

By: Finn Aaserud

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Redirecting Science

Niels Bohr, Philanthropy, and the Rise of Nuclear Physics

By: Finn Aaserud

This volume is an important study for understanding the complex interconnections between basic science and its sources of economic support in the period between the two world wars. The focus of the study is on the Institute for Theoretical Physics (later renamed the Niels Bohr Institute) at Copenhagen University, and the role of its director, the eminent Danish physicist, Niels Bohr, in the funding and administration of the Institute. Under Bohr's direction, the Copenhagen Institute was a central workplace in the development and the formulation of quantum mechanics in the 1920s and later became an important center for nuclear research in the 1930s. Dr. Aaserud brings together the scholarhip on the internal origins and development of nuclear physics in the 1930s with descriptions of the concurrent changes in private support for international basic science, particularly as represented by Rockefeller Foundation philanthropy. In the process, the book places the emergence of nuclear physics in a larger historical context. This book will appeal to historians of science, physicists, and advanced students in these areas.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521530679

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9780521530675

Love, Literature and the Quantum Atom

Niels Bohr's 1913 Trilogy Revisited

By: Finn Aaserud,John L. Heilbron

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Love, Literature and the Quantum Atom

Niels Bohr's 1913 Trilogy Revisited

By: Finn Aaserud,John L. Heilbron

This book presents unpublished excerpts from extensive correspondence between Niels Bohr and his immediate family, and uses it to describe and analyze the psychological and cultural background to his invention of the quantum theory of the atom.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199680280

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9780199680283

Liberalizing European Energy Markets

An Economic Analysis

By: Finn Roar Aune

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Liberalizing European Energy Markets

An Economic Analysis

By: Finn Roar Aune

Based on a state-of-the-art detailed numerical simulation model, this volume presents an economic analysis of the main effects of liberalizing the electricity and natural gas markets across Western Europe.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1781007640

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9781781007648

Love, Literature and the Quantum Atom

Niels Bohr's 1913 Trilogy Revisited

By: Finn Aaserud,John L. Heilbron

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Love, Literature and the Quantum Atom

Niels Bohr's 1913 Trilogy Revisited

By: Finn Aaserud,John L. Heilbron

Niels Bohr ranks with Einstein among the physicists of the 20th century. He rose to this status through his invention of the quantum theory of the atom and his leadership in its defense and development. He also ranks with Einstein in his humanism and his sense of responsibility to his science and the society that enabled him to create it. Our book presents unpublished excerpts from extensive correspondence between Bohr and his immediate family, and uses it to describe and analyze the psychological and cultural background to his invention. The book also contains a reprinting of the three papers of 1913 - the Trilogy- in which Bohr worked out the provisional basis of a quantum theory of the atom.

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OUP Oxford

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0191669733

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9780191669736

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Redirecting Science

Redirecting Science

Love, Literature and the Quantum Atom

Love, Literature and the Quantum Atom

Liberalizing European Energy Markets

Liberalizing European Energy Markets

Love, Literature and the Quantum Atom

Love, Literature and the Quantum Atom

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