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Author | : Milena Wazeck |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2014-01-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1107017440 |
Exploring the ferocious opposition which once surrounded the theory of relativity, this fascinating account details the strategies and motivations of Einstein's detractors. A unique insight into the dynamics of scientific controversies, ideal for anyone interested in the history and philosophy of physics, popular science, and the public understanding of science.
Author | : Milena Wazeck |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2014-01-09 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1107653894 |
This detailed account of the controversy surrounding the publication of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity explores the ferocious popular and academic opposition which at one time encircled one of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century. Based on extensive archival research, this fascinating discourse includes a compelling and entertaining examination of the contemporary literature created by Einstein's detractors. Exploring the arguments and strategies, social contexts, and motivations of Einstein's detractors, and providing unique insights into the dynamics of scientific controversies, this book is ideal for anyone interested in the history and philosophy of physics, popular science, and the public understanding of science.
Author | : Milena Wazeck |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9781107598065 |
This detailed account of the controversy surrounding the publication of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity explores the ferocious popular and academic opposition which at one time encircled one of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century. Based on extensive archival research, this fascinating discourse includes a compelling and entertaining examination of the contemporary literature created by Einstein's detractors. Exploring the arguments and strategies, social contexts, and motivations of Einstein's detractors, and providing unique insights into the dynamics of scientific controversies, this book is ideal for anyone interested in the history and philosophy of physics, popular science, and the public understanding of science.
Author | : Hans Israel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 109 |
Release | : 2021-12-31 |
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This is an English translation of the 1931 collection of "anti-relativity" essays, originally published in German under the title "Hundert Autoren Gegen Einstein". It provides fascinating insights into the early public reception of Albert Einstein's special and general theories of relativity.
Author | : Karl Hess |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2014-10-27 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9814463701 |
All modern books on Einstein emphasize the genius of his relativity theory and the corresponding corrections and extensions of the ancient space-time concept. However, Einstein's opposition to the use of probability in the laws of nature and particularly in the laws of quantum mechanics is criticized and often portrayed as outdated. The author of E
Author | : Bruce J. Hillman |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2015-04-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1493015699 |
By the end of World War I, Albert Einstein had become the face of the new science of theoretical physics and had made some powerful enemies. One of those enemies, Nobel Prize winner Philipp Lenard, spent a career trying to discredit him. Their story of conflict, pitting Germany’s most widely celebrated Jew against the Nazi scientist who was to become Hitler’s chief advisor on physics, had an impact far exceeding what the scientific community felt at the time. Indeed, their mutual antagonism affected the direction of science long after 1933, when Einstein took flight to America and changed the history of two nations. The Man Who Stalked Einstein details the tense relationship between Einstein and Lenard, their ideas and actions, during the eventful period between World War I and World War II.
Author | : Milena Wazeck |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Relativity (Physics) |
ISBN | : 9781107665750 |
Author | : Alexander Vucinich |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780804742092 |
This book traces the historical trajectory of one of the most momentous confrontations in the intellectual life of the Soviet Union—the conflict between Einstein's theory of relativity and official Soviet ideology embodied in dialectical materialism. It describes how Soviet attitudes toward Einstein's theory of relativity changed again and again during the eras of Soviet history: pre-Stalin, Stalin, post-Stalin, and perestroika.
Author | : A. Douglas Stone |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0691168563 |
The untold story of Albert Einstein's role as the father of quantum theory Einstein and the Quantum reveals for the first time the full significance of Albert Einstein's contributions to quantum theory. Einstein famously rejected quantum mechanics, observing that God does not play dice. But, in fact, he thought more about the nature of atoms, molecules, and the emission and absorption of light—the core of what we now know as quantum theory—than he did about relativity. A compelling blend of physics, biography, and the history of science, Einstein and the Quantum shares the untold story of how Einstein—not Max Planck or Niels Bohr—was the driving force behind early quantum theory. It paints a vivid portrait of the iconic physicist as he grappled with the apparently contradictory nature of the atomic world, in which its invisible constituents defy the categories of classical physics, behaving simultaneously as both particle and wave. And it demonstrates how Einstein's later work on the emission and absorption of light, and on atomic gases, led directly to Erwin Schrödinger's breakthrough to the modern form of quantum mechanics. The book sheds light on why Einstein ultimately renounced his own brilliant work on quantum theory, due to his deep belief in science as something objective and eternal.
Author | : Gerald James Holton |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780674004337 |
"[The] book makes a wonderfully cohesive whole. It is rich in ideas, elegantly expressed. I highly recommend it to any serious student of science and culture."--Lucy Horwitz, Boston Book Review "An important and lasting contribution to a more profound understanding of the place of science in our culture."--Hans C. von Baeyer, Boston Sunday Globe "[Holton's] themes are central to an understanding of the nature of science, and Holton does an excellent job of identifying and explaining key features of the scientific enterprise, both in the historical sense and in modern science...I know of no better informed scientist who has studied the nature of science for half a century."--Ron Good, Science and Education Through his rich exploration of Einstein's thought, Gerald Holton shows how the best science depends on great intuitive leaps of imagination, and how science is indeed the creative expression of the traditions of Western civilization.