INDEX
Adams, Henry, 30–31, 37, 215 Alpha decay, 165–67 Alpha particles, 40, 46–49 Anti-Semitism, 65–66, 70, 88–89, 172–75 “Appeal to the Cultured Peoples of the World” (manifesto), 63–64 Atomic bomb, 220–22 Atomic physics alpha particles, 40, 46–49 Brownian motion, 10–13, 15–19, 20, 26–29 decay of radioactive elements, 42–43, 46 determinism and, 29 early history of, 13–15 entropy, 23–26 evidence for existence of atoms, 27–29
kinetic theory of heat, 15, 19, 21–22, 25–26 motion, laws of, 22 nuclear physics, 46–47, 165 “plum pudding” atom, 40 positivist philosophy of science and, 25, 26, 29 probability and, 25–27, 42–43 radioactivity, 32–43, 46 statistics and, 21, 29 transformation theory of atoms, 41–42 See also Quantum physics Atomic Structure and Spectral Lines (Sommerfeld), 73, 75 Balmer, Johann, 51 Balmer series of spectral lines for hydrogen, 50, 51–52, 58, 125 Banks, Sir Joseph, 9 Becquerel, Henri, 32, 33–35, 37
