Probleme der Atomdynamik Erster Teil: Die Struktur des Atoms; Zweiter Teil: Die Gittertheorie desfesten Zustandes

Abstract

CLASSICAL electrodynamic theory has had considerable success in explaining many of the phenomena of atomic physics, but there are other facts which seem to necessitate a radical departure from this theory. During the first quarter of the century many attempts were made to meet these difficulties by means of special assumptions and rules, which constituted the quantum theory. Although these methods have had remarkable success in the interpretation of a restricted region, it has long been felt that such a procedure, designedly adopted with a particular end in view, was not satisfactory and that a more general theory was required.

Probleme der Atomdynamik. Erster Teil: Die Struktur des Atoms; Zweiter Teil: Die Gittertheorie desfesten Zustandes.

Dreissig Vorlesungen, gehalten im Wintersemester, 1925–26, am Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Von Prof. Max Born. Pp. xiii + 183. (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1926.) 10–50 gold marks.