Hydrogen : the essential element
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Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press,
2002.
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Table of Contents:
- 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