03034pamaa2200205 4500 0000047365 20121206090000.0 100623 eng 0674012526 (pbk.) QD181.H1 RIG 2002 Rigden Hydrogen : the essential element John S. Rigden. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002. 280 p.: ill.; 22 cm. FAS Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-270) and index Machine generated contents note: 1 In the Beginning: Hydrogen and the Big Bang 6 -- 2 Hydrogen and the Unity of Matter: The Prout 12 -- Hypothesis -- William Prout, 1815 -- 3 Hydrogen and the Spectra of the Chemical Elements: 19 -- A Swiss High School Teacher Finds a Pattern -- JohannJakob Balmer, 1885 -- 4 The Bohr Model of Hydrogen: A Paradigm for the 27 -- Structure of Atoms -- Niels Bohr, 1913 -- 5 Relativity Meets the Quantum in the Hydrogen Atom 43 --Arnold Sommerfeld, 1916 -- 6 The Fine-Structure Constant: A Strange Number 52 -- with Universal Significance -- Arnold Sommerfeld, 1916 -- 7 The Birth of Quantum Mechanics: The Hydrogen 59 -- Atom Answers the "Crucial Question" -- Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli, 1925-26 -- Paul Dirac, 1925-26 -- 8 The Hydrogen Atom: Midwife to the Birth of Wave 74 -- Mechanics -- Erwin Schrddinger, 1926 -- 9 The Hydrogen Atom and Dirac' Theory of the 87 -- Electron -- Paul Dirac, 1928 -- 10 Hydrogen Guides Nuclear Physicists: The Discovery of 96 -- Deuterium -- Harold Urey, 1932 -- 11 Hubris Meets Hydrogen: The Magnetic Moment of 103 -- the Proton -- Otto Stem, 1933 -- 12 The Magnetic Resonance Method: The Origin of 113 -- Magnetic Resonance Imaging -- I. I. Rabi, 1938 -- 13 New Nuclear Forces Required: The Discovery of the 125 -- Quadrupole Moment of the Deuteron -- Norman E Ramsey and I. I. Rabi, 1939 -- 14 Magnetic Resonance in Bulk Matter (NMR) 137 -- Edward M. Purcell and Felix Bloch, 1946 -- 15 Hydrogen 's Challenge to Dirac Theory: Quantum 150 -- Electrodynamics as the Prototype Physical Theory -- Willis Lamb, 1947 -- 16 The Hydrogen Atom Portends an Anomaly with the 161 -- Electron -- I. I. Rabi, John E. Nafe, and Edward B. Nelson, 1946 -- 17 Hydrogen Maps the Galaxy 171 -- Edward M. Purcell and Harold Ewen, 1951 -- 18 The Hydrogen Maser: A High-Precision Clock 183 -- Norman F Ramsey and Daniel Kleppner, 1960 -- 19 The Rydberg Constant: A Fundamental Constant 197 -- Johannes Robert Rydberg, 1890 -- Theodor W. Hinsch, 1992 -- 20 The Abundance ofDeuterium.:A Check on Big Bang 211 -- Cosmology -- David N. Schramm, 1945-1997 -- 21 Antihydrogen: The First Antiatom 223 -- 22 The Bose-Einstein Condensate for Hydrogen 234 -- Satyendranath Bose, 1924 * Albert Einstein, 1925 -- Eric A. Cornell and Carl E. Wieman, 1995 -- Daniel Kleppner and Tom Greytak, 1998 -- 23 Exotic Hydrogen-like Atoms: From Theory to 242 -- Technology Science -- Methodology Hydrogen www.hup.harvard.edu