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Cline recounts the development of quantum theory, capturing the atmosphere of argument and discovery among physicists in the 1920s. She explores the backgrounds of the major figures--Rutherford, Bohr, Planck, Einstein--separately, but draws them together as they begin to consider each other's questions about the nature of matter.

Men Who Made a New Physics Physicists and the

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 15 June 1987
      ISBN-13 9780226110271
      978-0226110271
      ISBN-10 0226110273
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      Book Synopsis
      Cline recounts the development of quantum theory, capturing the atmosphere of argument and discovery among physicists in the 1920s. She explores the backgrounds of the major figures--Rutherford, Bohr, Planck, Einstein--separately, but draws them together as they begin to consider each other's questions about the nature of matter.

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