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George Gamow
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ISBN: 048624895X
Page Count: 240
Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 8 1/2
Entertaining, rigorous introduction to the development of quantum theory traces the subject's history, from Max Planck's revolutionary discovery of quanta and Niels Bohr's model of the atom to anti-particles, mesons, and Enrico Fermi's nuclear research. Numerous line drawings. 1966 edition.

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