The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science, with a New Afterword, Paperback - J. L. Heilbron

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How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origin...

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Reducere. What makes this book by Max Planck - one of the fathers of modern physics (Nobel Prize in Physics 1918) - invaluable is that he presents his entire...

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A friend, correspondent and intellectual successor to David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1789-1864) published deeply researched articles, pamphl...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Wolfgang J. MommsenNumber of pages: 520Publication date: 1990Dimensions: 155 x 231 x 33Cover t...

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Reducere. In this classic of scientific literature, the Nobel laureate and creator of the quantum revolution explores the ideas intrinsic to physics. Planck'...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Morton MarshaNumber of pages: 436Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 173 x 245 x 32Cover type: Paperback / ...

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