Taming the Atom: The Emergence of the Visible Microworld

Baeyer, Hans Christian Von

ISBN 10: 0670840173 / ISBN 13: 9780670840175

Editore: Viking (an Imprint of Penguin Books), London, 1993

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Hardcover with jacket. Very good condition. Some light foxing on the page block. Pages are clean; all text and images are clear. CM.

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• Titolo: Taming the Atom: The Emergence of the Visible Microworld
• Editore: Viking (an Imprint of Penguin Books), London
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0670840173
• ISBN 13: 9780670840175
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Very Good
• Tipo di libro: Used
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Science - General

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While quantum theory of the internal structure of atoms remains a matter of theory, inaccessible to everyday experience, atoms themselves have become increasingly tangible and perceptible in recent years. The invention of the scanning tunnelling microscope has made it possible to photograph them and atomic traps are making it possible to isolate individual atoms, in ways that are vastly increasing our understanding of their behaviour. Much recent science writing has concentrated on the far reaches of theory - particle physics, quantum theory and cosmology - but this book shows how physics links into the world we inhabit and how electron clouds and probability waves add up to the physical, tangible world of objects.