Einstein's Witches' Sabbath and the Early Solvay Councils : The Untold Story.
Berends, Frits.
Einstein's Witches' Sabbath and the Early Solvay Councils : The Untold Story. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (319 pages) - Sciences and Histoire / Sciences and History Series . - Sciences and Histoire / Sciences and History Series .
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- The first physics council -- Chapter 1 A very unlikely "Council" -- 1.1 A quite surprising invitation -- 1.2 Novelty of the project -- 1.3 Ernest Solvay: industrial, scientific patron and investigator -- 1.4 The quantum theory -- 1.5 How Nernst discovered Einstein's genius -- 1.6 Nernst's great dilemma -- Chapter 2 An unprecedented project -- 2.1 The idea of a Council -- 2.2 A providential man: Ernest Solvay -- 2.3 Nernst in action -- 2.4 A glimpse behind the scenes -- 2.5 Evolution of the project -- 2.6 Ostwald's project for chemistry -- 2.7 Back to the Council -- 2.8 The first Council on Physics -- 2.9 Council results -- Unexpected consequences of the council -- Chapter 3 A game of musical chairs -- 3.1 Impact on Einstein's career: from Prague to Zurich -- 3.2 The imbroglio of Lorentz's succession -- 3.3 Second impact of the Council on Einstein's career: from Zurich to Berlin -- Chapter 4 Foundation of the International Solvay Institute for Physics -- 4.1 The Lorentz proposal -- 4.2 The Institute's Statutes -- 4.3 Constitution of the International Scientific Committee (ISC) -- 4.4 Birth of the International Institute for Physics -- Chapter 5 The second Physics Council -- 5.1 Members and reports -- 5.2 Highlights of "Solvay II" -- 5.3 Echoes and consequences of Solvay II -- Chapter 6 Foundation of the International Institute for Chemistry -- 6.1 Resuming contact with Ostwald -- 6.2 Intensification of Solvay's work -- 6.3 The chemists and their expectations -- 6.4 Haller's good offices -- 6.5 Solvay's personal research -- 6.6 Back to ISIC -- 6.7 Impact of Ostwald's observations -- 6.8 Haller's master card -- 6.9 Culmination of a jubilee -- Chapter 7 The Solvay subsidies -- 7.1 Global situation -- 7.2 How to define the order of priorities? -- 7.3 Some notable successes. 7.4 Last measures taken by ISC before the debacle -- Impact of the Great War -- Chapter 8 The Physics Institute survives the storm -- 8.1 First reactions to the invasion of Belgium -- 8.2 The Manifesto of the 93 -- 8.3 A dead end conflict -- 8.4 Edition of the second Solvay volume: a thankless task -- 8.5 Solvay's actions and projects -- 8.6 Satisfactions, setbacks and hopes -- 8.7 Resumption of ISIP's activities -- Chapter 9 Epilogue: from "Solvay III" to "Solvay V" -- 9.1 Solvay III: Atoms and Electrons, April 1-6, 1921 -- 9.2 Solvay IV: Electric Conductivity in Metals and Related Problems, April 24-28, 1924 -- 9.3 Solvay V: Electrons and Photons, October 24-29, 1927 -- 9.4 Some final thoughts -- Annexes -- Annex 1 List of 52 Nobel laureates who took part in one (or in several) Solvay Councils between 1911 and 1933, or who benefitted from a Solvay research subsidy -- Annex 2 Archival sources relating to the works of Ernest Solvay -- Annex 3 Solvay's "Gravito-Materialitic" program -- Annex 4 The Black-Body Problem -- Annex 5 Planck's "missed" Nobel Prize -- Annex 6 The second Moroccan crisis and the Caillaux affair -- Annex 7 Royal patronage -- Annex 8 Essential points in the Rutherford-Thomson confrontation -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
No detailed description available for "Einstein's Witches' Sabbath and the Early Solvay Councils".
9782759826704
Einstein, Albert,-1879-1955.
Solvay Conference on Physics.
Electronic books.
QC16.E5 L363 2021
530.092
Einstein's Witches' Sabbath and the Early Solvay Councils : The Untold Story. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (319 pages) - Sciences and Histoire / Sciences and History Series . - Sciences and Histoire / Sciences and History Series .
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- The first physics council -- Chapter 1 A very unlikely "Council" -- 1.1 A quite surprising invitation -- 1.2 Novelty of the project -- 1.3 Ernest Solvay: industrial, scientific patron and investigator -- 1.4 The quantum theory -- 1.5 How Nernst discovered Einstein's genius -- 1.6 Nernst's great dilemma -- Chapter 2 An unprecedented project -- 2.1 The idea of a Council -- 2.2 A providential man: Ernest Solvay -- 2.3 Nernst in action -- 2.4 A glimpse behind the scenes -- 2.5 Evolution of the project -- 2.6 Ostwald's project for chemistry -- 2.7 Back to the Council -- 2.8 The first Council on Physics -- 2.9 Council results -- Unexpected consequences of the council -- Chapter 3 A game of musical chairs -- 3.1 Impact on Einstein's career: from Prague to Zurich -- 3.2 The imbroglio of Lorentz's succession -- 3.3 Second impact of the Council on Einstein's career: from Zurich to Berlin -- Chapter 4 Foundation of the International Solvay Institute for Physics -- 4.1 The Lorentz proposal -- 4.2 The Institute's Statutes -- 4.3 Constitution of the International Scientific Committee (ISC) -- 4.4 Birth of the International Institute for Physics -- Chapter 5 The second Physics Council -- 5.1 Members and reports -- 5.2 Highlights of "Solvay II" -- 5.3 Echoes and consequences of Solvay II -- Chapter 6 Foundation of the International Institute for Chemistry -- 6.1 Resuming contact with Ostwald -- 6.2 Intensification of Solvay's work -- 6.3 The chemists and their expectations -- 6.4 Haller's good offices -- 6.5 Solvay's personal research -- 6.6 Back to ISIC -- 6.7 Impact of Ostwald's observations -- 6.8 Haller's master card -- 6.9 Culmination of a jubilee -- Chapter 7 The Solvay subsidies -- 7.1 Global situation -- 7.2 How to define the order of priorities? -- 7.3 Some notable successes. 7.4 Last measures taken by ISC before the debacle -- Impact of the Great War -- Chapter 8 The Physics Institute survives the storm -- 8.1 First reactions to the invasion of Belgium -- 8.2 The Manifesto of the 93 -- 8.3 A dead end conflict -- 8.4 Edition of the second Solvay volume: a thankless task -- 8.5 Solvay's actions and projects -- 8.6 Satisfactions, setbacks and hopes -- 8.7 Resumption of ISIP's activities -- Chapter 9 Epilogue: from "Solvay III" to "Solvay V" -- 9.1 Solvay III: Atoms and Electrons, April 1-6, 1921 -- 9.2 Solvay IV: Electric Conductivity in Metals and Related Problems, April 24-28, 1924 -- 9.3 Solvay V: Electrons and Photons, October 24-29, 1927 -- 9.4 Some final thoughts -- Annexes -- Annex 1 List of 52 Nobel laureates who took part in one (or in several) Solvay Councils between 1911 and 1933, or who benefitted from a Solvay research subsidy -- Annex 2 Archival sources relating to the works of Ernest Solvay -- Annex 3 Solvay's "Gravito-Materialitic" program -- Annex 4 The Black-Body Problem -- Annex 5 Planck's "missed" Nobel Prize -- Annex 6 The second Moroccan crisis and the Caillaux affair -- Annex 7 Royal patronage -- Annex 8 Essential points in the Rutherford-Thomson confrontation -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
No detailed description available for "Einstein's Witches' Sabbath and the Early Solvay Councils".
9782759826704
Einstein, Albert,-1879-1955.
Solvay Conference on Physics.
Electronic books.
QC16.E5 L363 2021
530.092