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IT is perhaps ungrateful to begin the review of this, delightful look with a complaint, but it is surely unnecessary to state Planck's constant on p. 22 as a pure number. Apart from this, the reviewer must add that no book of popular science since ‘Mr. Tompkins'’ exploration of the atom has given him such keen pleasure in the reading.
The Strange Story of the Quantum
An Account for the General Reader of the Growth of the Ideas underlying our Present Atomic Knowledge. By Banesh Hoffmann. Pp. xi + 239. (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1947.), 3 dollars.
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WYLLIE, G. Qualitative Quanta. Nature 160, 692–693 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160692b0
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