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_bWHT 1983
100 1 _aWheaton, Bruce R.
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245 1 4 _aThe tiger and the shark :
_bempirical roots of wave-particle dualism /
_cby Bruce R. Wheaton ; with a foreword by Thomas S. Kuhn.
260 _aCambridge [Cambridgeshire] ;
_aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c1983.
300 _axxiv, 355 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes index.
504 _aBibliography: p. [309]-346.
505 0 0 _aMachine derived contents note: Foreword Thomas S. Kuhn -- Preface -- Notes on sources -- 1. Introduction -- Part I. The Introduction of Temporal Discontinuity, 1896-1905: 2. The electromagnetic impulse hypothesis of x-rays -- 3. The analogy between y-rays and x-rays -- Part II. Ionization and the Recognition of Paradox, 1906-1910: 4. Secondary rays: British attempts to retain mechanism -- 5. The appeal in Germany to the quantum theory -- Part III. Seeking an Electrodynamic Solution, 1907-1912: 6. Localized energy in spreading impulses -- 7. Problems with visible light -- Part IV. Interference of X-Rays and the Corrobation of Paradox, 1912-1922: 8. Origins of x-ray spectroscopy -- 9. Quantum transformation experiments -- Part V. The Conceptual Origins of Wave-Particle Dualism, 1921-1925: 10. Synthesis of matter and light -- Epilogue: The tiger and the shark -- Bibliography -- Index.
650 0 _aWave-particle duality
_xHistory.
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650 0 _aRadiation
_xHistory.
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650 0 _aX-rays
_xHistory.
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650 0 _aGamma rays
_xHistory.
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653 _aQuantum theory
_aWave-particle duality, 1896-1925
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam022/82022069.html
856 4 1 _3Table of contents
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam023/82022069.html
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