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Tables of Contents for The Historical Development of Quantum Theory
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Acknowledgements
xlv
Prologue
3
20
Quanta and Molecules: The Quantum Theory of Planck, Einstein and Nernst
23
132
The Law of Blackbody Radiation
24
21
The Significance of the Constants in Planck's Law
45
14
Fluctuations and Light-Quanta
59
24
Energy-Quanta and the Derivations from Classical Theories
83
16
The Search for Other Quantum Phenomena
99
14
Specific Heats, New Quantum Hypotheses and the First Solvay Conference
113
23
The Consolidation of Quantum Theory
136
19
The Bohr--Sommerfeld Theory of Atomic Structure
155
104
The Spectra of Atoms and Molecules: The Empirical Foundations
156
12
Ideas Towards a Model of Atomic Structure
168
13
Niels Bohr and the Origin of the Quantum Theory of Line Spectra
181
19
Atoms as Conditionally Periodic Quantum Systems
200
30
Three Principles of Atomic Theory
230
29
The Bohr Festival in Gottingen
259
116
The Gottingen Tradition of Mathematics and Physics
262
25
The Continuity of the Tradition: Richard Courant, Max Born and James Franck in Gottingen
287
26
Progress in Atomic Models from 1913 to 1921
313
19
Bohr's Wolfskehl Lectures and the Theory of the Periodic System of Elements
332
26
Immediate Impact and Triumph of Bohr's Theory of the Periodic System of Elements
358
17
The Mechanical and Spectroscopic Failures of Atomic Models
375
136
Wolfgang Pauli's Background and Early Scientific Work
376
20
The Helium Atom and Other Few-Body Problems
396
26
The Magnetic Anomaly and the Stern--Gerlach Effect
422
23
The Anomalous Zeeman Effect
445
40
The Breakdown of the Bohr--Sommerfeld Theory: Anomalous Zeeman Effects and the Crossed-Field Problem
485
26
The Problems of Radiation Theory
511
118
The Proof of the Light-Quantum Hypothesis
512
20
The Bohr--Kramers--Slater Theory of Radiation
532
22
Bose's Light-Quantum Statistics and Its Extension to Gas Theory
554
24
The Phase Waves Associated with Matter
578
26
The Status of the Radiation Problem in 1925
604
25
New Methods and Concepts in Atomic Theory
629
82
The Dispersion-Theoretic Approach
630
22
Atomic Structure and the Problem of Closed Electron Shells
652
19
The Rule for Equivalent Electrons: Pauli's Exclusion Principle
671
13
The Discovery of Electron Spin
684
27
Epilogue
711
16
References
727
135
Author Index
862