Niels Bohr: A Centenary VolumeBriefly sketches Bohr's life, assesses his contributions to nuclear physics, and discusses his political and philosophical ideas |
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Contents
P J Kennedy | 16 |
The Early Years | 44 |
Bohr and Rutherford | 68 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Niels Bohr: A Centenary Volume |
| Author | Niels Bohr |
| Editors | Anthony Philip French, P. J. Kennedy |
| Photographs by | Anthony Philip French |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press, 1985 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 8, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0674624157, 9780674624153 |
| Length | 403 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / Reference |
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