Einstein's Witches' Sabbath and the Early Solvay Councils : (Record no. 36493)
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| Classification number | QC16.E5 L363 2021 |
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| Classification number | 530.092 |
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| Personal name | Berends, Frits. |
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| Title | Einstein's Witches' Sabbath and the Early Solvay Councils : |
| Remainder of title | The Untold Story. |
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| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Les Ulis : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | EDP Sciences, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2022. |
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| Extent | 1 online resource (319 pages) |
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| Formatted contents note | 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. |
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| Formatted contents note | 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. |
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| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Einstein, Albert,-1879-1955. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Solvay Conference on Physics. |
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| Personal name | Lambert, Franklin. |
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| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Berends, Frits |
| Title | Einstein's Witches' Sabbath and the Early Solvay Councils |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Les Ulis : EDP Sciences,c2022 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9782759826698 |
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