Quips, Quotes, and Quanta: An Anecdotal History of Physics

World Scientific (2011)
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These are but just some of the stories covered in this entertaining book that deals with the history of physics from the end of the 19th-century to about 1930.Quips, Quotes and Quanta (2nd Edition) is unique in that it contains anecdotes on ...

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QC7.C2354 2011

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9789814343473   9814343471   9812709207   9812709193
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