John Stewart Bell and twentieth-century physics : vision and integrity / Andrew Whitaker, Department of Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Whitaker, Andrew, 1946- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
  • Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
  • ©2016
Description
xvi, 460 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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      John Stewart Bell (1928-1990) was one of the most important figures in twentieth-century physics, famous for his work on the fundamental aspects of the century's most important theory, quantum mechanics. While the debate over quantum theory between the supremely famous physicists, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, appeared to have become sterile in the 1930s, Bell was able to revive it and to make crucial advances - Bell's Theorem or Bell's Inequalities. He was able to demonstrate a contradiction between quantum theory and essential elements of pre-quantum theory - locality and causality. The book gives a non-mathematical account of Bell's relatively impoverished upbringing in Belfast and his education. It describes his major contributions to quantum theory, but also his important work in the physics of accelerators, and nuclear and elementary particle physics. Book jacket.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-443) and index.
      Contents
      • A tough start but a good one
      • The 1950s : progress on all fronts
      • The 1960s : the year of greatest success
      • The 1970s : interest increases
      • The 1980s : final achievements but final tragedies
      • The work continues
      • Work of the highest calibre and a fine life.
      ISBN
      • 9780198742999
      • 0198742991
      LCCN
      2015956498
      OCLC
      941875078
      Other standard number
      • 40026929599
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