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Published: 27 October 2011
...2011 ‘Electronic structure’ examines the work that went into determining the properties of electrons in atoms. Quantum theory was devised by Max Planck, and was applied to hydrogen atoms by Niels Bohr. He hypothesised that electrons existed in set shells around a nucleus. He then extrapolated...
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Published: 30 May 2002
... individuals matter natura naturata Newton Sir Isaac Einstein Alfred Goethe J W von Planck Max stuff space causa sui clear and distinct ideas Isaac Newton ontological argument Max Planck sub specie aeternitatis In the first part of the Ethics Spinoza addresses himself...
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Published: 25 July 2019
...2019 ‘Electronic structure’ examines the work that went into determining the properties of electrons in atoms. Quantum theory was devised by Max Planck in 1900, and was applied to hydrogen atoms by Niels Bohr in 1913. Bohr hypothesized that electrons existed in set shells around a nucleus...
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Published: 23 January 2020
... and the physicists J. J. Thompson, Lord Kelvin, Max Planck, and Albert Einstein on Bohr’s early work and enduring beliefs. This rich background prepared him for the analysis and results of his doctoral thesis of 1911, which exposed serious faults in the largely successful electron theory of metals. He concluded...
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Published: 12 February 2021
..., the development of quantum theory and general relativity in the first decades of the twentieth century and in particular Lorentz’s contributions to these theories. Among other topics, it discusses radiation theory, the work of Max Planck, the work of Einstein, and the work of Niels Bohr. These scientific...
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Published: 15 February 2024
... Justice PCIJ Wolff M International law Lauterpacht H Money and monetary law Central Bank Digital Currency CBDC Digital currencies Nominalism State theory of money Jewishness FA Mann biography transnational pragmatism Praxisorientierung Lauterpacht Max-Planck-Institut MPI Kaiser Wilhelm...
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Published: 22 February 2018
... and suggestions by William Thomson, Hendrik Lorentz, George Bryan, Gustav Kirchhoff, and Max Planck. He corrected errors in alleged counterexamples of equipartition by William Burnside and William Thomson; and in 1887, when the Dutch theorist Hendrik Lorentz detected an error in his earlier derivation of the H...
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Published: 10 February 2005
...The general theory of relativity (GTR) brought a revolutionary transformation in philosophical as well as physical outlook. The philosopher Mortiz Schick, student of Max Planck, played a pivotal role in fashioning the received view that GTR implied the untenability of any type of Kantian philosophy...
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Published: 13 October 2021
...This chapter provides background information about the aims, objectives, and genesis of the Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology as a project of the Law & Anthropology Department, Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany. The volume is structured around...
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Published: 06 July 2017
... into the age of ‘modern physics’, highlighted by landmark achievements such as the discovery of the photoelectric effect in 1887, Max Planck’s work on the quanta of radiation, Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity of 1905, and the elaboration of the various aspects of what became known as quantum...
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Published: 06 July 2017
... simultaneously by Max Planck at the Solvay conference in 1911, arguing instead that the emergence of these notions took place separately over a period that reached as late as the 1930s. The article first considers how the identification of the ether as a key feature of classical physics has drawn historians...
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Published: 06 July 2017
...’, Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte 83 (1912). 2. Max Planck , ‘Die Stellung Der Neueren Physik Zur Mechanischen Naturanschauung’, Physikalische Zeitschrift 11 (1910) 922–932. 3. 852 Sommerfeld, ‘Das Plancksche Wirkungsquantum’, 31. 4. Suman...
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Published: 10 January 2020
....), It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science , Granta, London, 2002 , pp. 1–27. Gamow, George , Thirty Years that Shook Physics , Dover, New York, 1966 , Chapter I. Heilbron, J. L. , The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes...
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Published: 12 January 2006
... is usually attributed to Gibbs and not to Boltzmann, the problem of trend to equilibrium and ergodic theory, and Max Planck's work on statistical mechanics. As we have already remarked, Gibbs’s treatise was to obscure for most scientists Boltzmann’s and Maxwell’s kinetic theory, and to develop...
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Published: 21 January 2016
... Directive Max Planck Institute Paris Convention priority filings case law consumables contours A. Design 4.04 (1) Nomenclature 4.06 (2) Appearance 4.07 Physical form 4.08 Only the sense of sight is relevant 4.09 (3) Features 4.12 Lines 4.13 Contours 4.15...
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Published: 23 June 2022
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Published: 12 February 2021
...–1977 Leemhorst Hendrik Carel Henri 1884–1973 Vreede Enny 1883–1919 Curie Marie 1867–1934 Langevin Paul 1872–1946 Perrin Jean 1870–1942 Peace movement Wilhelm Wien Max Planck World War One On June 18, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire...
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Published: 12 April 2013
... Huch Ricarda Reader The Der Vorleser Schlink Schlink Bernhard bioethics citizen conference on stem cell debate Stammzelldebatte about Holocaust Unrechtsstaat unlawful state concept of Nationaler Ethikrat NER Thomas Mann Germany Richarda Huch literary prizes Max Planck bioethics Bernhard...
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Stephen J. Blundell and Katherine M. Blundell
Published: 01 October 2009
...This chapter discusses the third law of thermodynamics. Topics covered include different statements of the third law by Walter H. Nerst, Max Planck, and Francis Simon; and consequences of the third law. third law of thermodynamics Curie's law ideal gas thermal expansion absolute zero Donne...
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Published: 01 March 2012
... was given as π4 /15 in  eq. (24.29) . The beginning of quantum mechanics can plausibly be traced to a paper that Max Planck wrote in 1900, in which he derived the spectrum of black-body radiation. This chapter repeats that derivation and investigates...