A Focus of Discoveries

List of contents

The Foundation and the Key Role of Werner Siemens; Some Memoranda at the Beginning; The Start under President Hermann von Helmholtz; The Institute as a Model; The Optical Laboratory and the Birth of the Quantum Theory; The Low-Temperature Laboratory and the Discovery of the Meissner Effect; The Chemical Laboratory and the Discovery of New Elements; The Laboratory for Radioactivity; The Imperial Institute and Albert Einstein; Counting and Measuring; Fundamental Constants; The Meter Convention; The Presidents of the Institute until 1933; The Institute under the Nazi Dictatorship and the New Beginning.

Product details

• Authors: Rudolf P Huebener, Rudolf P. Huebener, Heinz Lubbig, Heinz Luebbig
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2008
• EAN: 9789812790347
• ISBN: 978-981-279-034-7
• No. of pages: 196
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)