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Intellectual Mastery of Nature. Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein, Volume : The Now Mighty Theoretical Physics, 1870 to 1925
Intellectual Mastery of Nature Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein Volume The Now Mighty Theoretical Physics 1870 to 1925 Author:Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach Winner of the 1987 Pfizer Award of the History of Science Society — "A majestic study of a most important spoch of intellectual — history."--Brian Pippard, Times Literary Supplement — "The authors' use of archival sources hitherto almost — untouched gives their story a startling vividness. These volumes — are among the finest works prod... more »uced by historians of physics."--Jed
Z. Buchwald, Isis
"The authors painstakingly reconstruct the minutiae of
laboratory budgets, instrument collections, and student numbers;
they disentangle the intrigues of faculty appointments and the
professional values those appointments reflected; they explore
collegial relationships among physicists; and they document the
unending campaign of scientists to wring further support for
physics from often reluctant ministries."--R. Steven Turner,
Science
"Superbly written and exhaustively researched."--Peter Harman,