Schrödinger: Centenary Celebration of a Polymath
by Edited by C. W. KilmisterEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 1989-03-31
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
In this volume, prepared in 1987 to celebrate the centenary of Schrodinger's birth, leading figures have collaborated to produce this survey of the man and his science.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| Boltzmann's influence on Schrödinger | |
| Schrödinger's original interpretation of the Schrödinger equation: a rescue attempt | |
| Are there quantum jumps? | |
| Square root of minus one, complex phases and Erwin Schrödinger | |
| Consequences of the Schrödinger equation for atomic and molecular physics | |
| Molecular dynamics: from H + H, to biomolecules | |
| Orbital presentation of chemical reactions | |
| Quantum chemistry | |
| Eamon de Valera, Erwin Schrödinger and the Dublin Institute | |
| Do bosons condense? | |
| Schrödinger's nonlinear optics | |
| Schrödinger's unified field theory seen 40 years later | |
| The Schrödinger equation of the Universe | |
| Overview of particle physics | |
| Gauge fields, topological defects and cosmology | |
| Quantum theory and astronomy | |
| Schrödinger's contributions to chemistry and biology | |
| Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? and molecular biology | |
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