
Physics 1922 – 1941
Including Presentation Speeches and Laureates' Biographies
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Physics presents Nobel Lectures on physics from the period of 1922 to 1941. This book is organized into 18 parts encompassing 36 chapters that cover various Nobel physics subjects. The first parts explore the advances in understanding the atom structure, experimental studies of electrons, X-ray spectra of the atomic structure, kinetic energy of free electrons, and discontinuous structure of matter. These topics are followed by discussions on the laws governing the thermionic phenomena, wave nature of electron, light molecular scattering, the development of quantum mechanics, properties of neutrons, and the properties and production of positrons. The remaining parts are devoted to electronic waves, neutron's artificial radioactivity, and the evolution of cyclotron. Physicists will find this book invaluable.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Publisher's Note
1922 Niels Bohr
Motivation
Presentation
The Structure of the Atom
Biography N. Bohr
1923 Robert Andrews Millikan
Motivation
Presentation
The Electron and the Light-Quant from the Experimental Point of View
Biography R. A. Millikan
1924 Karl Manne George Siebahn
Motivation
Presentation
The X-ray Spectra and the Structure of the Atoms
Biography K. M. G. Siegbahn
1925 James Franck and Gustav Hertz
Motivation
Presentation
Transformations of Kinetic Energy of Free Electrons into Excitation Energy of Atoms by Impacts
Biography J. Franck
The Results of Electron-Impact Tests in the Light of Bohr's Theory of Atoms
Biography G. Hertz
1926 Jean Baptiste Perrin
Motivation
Presentation
Discontinuous Structure of Matter
Biography J. B. Perrin 165
1927 Arthur Holly Compton and Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Motivation
Presentation
X-rays as a Branch of Optics
Biography A. H. Compton
On the Cloud Method of Making Visible Ions and the Tracks of Ionizing Particles
Biography C. T. R. Wilson
1928 Owen Willans Richardson
Motivation
Presentation
Thermionic Phenomena and the Laws which Govern Them
Biography O. W. Richardson
1929 Prince Louis-Victor de Broglie
Motivation
Presentation
The Wave Nature of the Electron
Biography L. de Broglie
1930 Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Motivation
Presentation
The Molecular Scattering of Light
Biography C. V. Raman
1931 (Prize not Awarded)
1932 Werner Heisenberg
1933 Erwin Schrödinger and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
Motivation
Presentation
The Development of Quantum Mechanics
Biography W. Heisenberg
The Fundamental Idea of Wave Mechanics
Biography E. Schrödinger
Theory of Electrons and Positrons
Biography P. A. M. Dirac
1934 (Prize not Awarded)
1935 James Chadwick
Motivation
Presentation
The Neutron and Its Properties
Biography J. Chadwick
1936 Victor Franz Hess and Carl David Anderson
Motivation
Unsolved Problems in Physics: Tasks for the Immediate Future in Cosmic Ray Studies
Biography V. F. Hess
The Production and Properties of Positrons
Biography C. D. Anderson
1937 Clinton Joseph Davisson and George Paget Thomson
Motivation
Presentation
The Discovery of Electron Waves
Biography C.J. Davisson
Electronic Waves
Biography G. P. Thomson
1938 Enrico Fermi
Motivation
Presentation
Artificial Radioactivity Produced by Neutron Bombardment
Biography E. Fermi
1939 Ernest Orlando Lawrence
Motivation
Account of Lawrence's Work
The Evolution of the Cyclotron
Biography E. O. Lawrence
1940 (Prize not Awarded)
1941 (Prize not Awarded)
Name Index
Subject Index
Index of Biographies
Product details
- No. of pages: 470
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 1965
- Published: January 1, 1965
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9781483222486
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