Niels Bohr and the Quantum Atom

Kirjan Niels Bohr and the Quantum Atom (2012) on kirjoittanut Helge Kragh. Kirjan kieli on englanti, ja sen on kustantanut Oxford University Press. Kirja on laajuudeltaan 416 sivua ja se on sidottu.

Niels Bohr and the Quantum Atom is the first book that focuses in detail on the birth and development of Bohr's atomic theory and gives a comprehensive picture of it. At the same time it offers new insight into Bohr's peculiar way of thinking, what Einstein once called his 'unique instinct and tact'. Contrary to most other accounts of the Bohr atom, the book presents it in a broader perspective which includes the reception among other scientists and the criticism launched against it by scientists of a more conservative inclination. Moreover, it discusses the theory as Bohr originally conceived it, namely, as an ambitious theory covering the structure of atoms as well as molecules. By discussing the theory in its entirety it becomes possible to understand why it developed as it did and thereby to use it as an example of the dynamics of scientific theories.