Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics

by Jed Z. Buchwald and Andrew Warwick

Book Overview

In the mid to late 1890s, J. J. Thomson and colleagues at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory conducted experiments on "cathode rays" (a form of radiation produced within evacuated glass vessels... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262024942
• ISBN13: 9780262024945
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 514 Pages
• Weight: 2.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.3"