000			01324cam a22002054a 4500
008			221215s2001 nyu b 001 0 eng
020			_a9781501142444 (PB)
041			_aeng
080			_a53 _bLIN
100	1		_aLindley, David,
245	1	0	_aBoltzmann's atom _bthe great debate that launched a revolution in physics
260			_aNew York _bFree Press _c2001.
300			_axi, 260 p
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [235]-251) and index.
520			_aNow writer David Lindley portrays the dramatic story of Boltzmann and his embrace of the atom, while providing a window on the civilized world that gave birth to our scientific era. Boltzmann emerges as an endearingly quixotic character, passionately inspired by Beethoven, who muddled through the practical matters of life in a European gilded age. Boltzmann's story reaches from fin de siecle Vienna, across Germany and Britain, to America. As the Habsburg Empire was crumbling, Germany's intellectual might was growing; Edinburgh in Scotland was one of the most intellectually fertile places on earth; and, in America, brilliant independent minds were beginning to draw on the best ideas of the bureaucratized old world."
650		0	_aPhysicists _zAustria _vBiography.
650		0	_aAtomic theory
690			_aPhysics
942			_cBK _01
999			_c59309 _d59309