Einstein and the Quantum (51 page)

Einstein, Albert.
Ideas and Opinions
. Translated by Sonja Bargmann. New York: Random House, 1954.

BIOGRAPHICAL WORKS ON EINSTEIN

Bernstein, Jeremy.
Albert Einstein.
Edited by Frank Kermode. New York: Penguin Books, 1973.

Calaprice, Alice.
The Quotable Einstein
. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.

D'Amour, Thibault.
Once Upon Einstein
. Translated by Eric Novak. Wellesley: A. K. Peters, 2006.

Dukas, Helen, and Banesh Hoffman, eds.
Albert Einstein: The Human Side.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.

Folsing, Albrecht.
Albert Einstein: A Biography
. Translated and abridged by Ewald Osers. New York: Penguin Press, 1998.

Frank, Phillip.
Einstein: His Life and Times
. Translated by George Rosen and edited by Schuichi Kusaka. New York: Da Capo Press, 1947.

French, A. P., ed.
Einstein: A Centenary Volume.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979.

Hentschel, Ann M., and Gerd Grasshoff.
Albert Einstein: Those Happy Bernese Years
. Bern: Staempfli, 2005.

Highfield, Roger, and Paul Carter.
The Private Lives of Albert Einstein
. London: Faber & Faber, 1993.

Hoffmann, Banesh, with the collaboration of Helen Dukas.
Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel
. New York: Viking Press, 1972.

Isaacson, Walter.
Einstein: His Life and Universe
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.

Levenson, Thomas.
Einstein in Berlin
. New York: Bantam Books, 2003.

Moszkowski, Alexander.
Conversations with Einstein
. Translated by Henry L. Brose. New York: Horizon Press, 1970.

Neffe, Jurgen.
Einstein: A Biography
. Translated by Shelley Frisch. New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux, 2007.

Pais, Abraham.
Einstein Lived Here
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Pais, Abraham.
Subtle Is the Lord
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Schilpp, P. A., ed.,
Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist.
La Salle: Open Court, 1970.

Seelig, Carl.
Albert Einstein: A Documentary Biography
. Translated by Mervyn Savill. London: Staples Press, 1956.

Woolf, Harry, ed.
Some Strangeness in Proportion: Einstein Centennial
. Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1980.

EINSTEIN AND QUANTUM THEORY

Bolles, Edmund Blair
. Einstein Defiant: Genius versus Genius in the Quantum Revolution
. Washington, DC: John Henry Press, 2005.

Klein, Martin J. “Einstein and Wave-Particle Duality.”
The Natural Philosopher
, vol. 3, 1964, pp. 1–49.

Stachel, John. “Einstein and the Quantum” and “Bose and Einstein.” In
Einstein from B to Z
, vol. 9, pp. 367–444. Edited by Don Howard. Boston: Birkhauser, 2002.

QUANTUM THEORY AND QUANTUM MECHANICS

Haar, D. Ter.
The Old Quantum Theory
. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1967.

Hermann, Armin.
The Genesis of Quantum Theory (1899–1913)
. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1971.

Kuhn, Thomas S.
Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894–1912
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.

Lindley, David.
Uncertainty: Einstein, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science
. New York: Doubleday, 2007.

Mehra, Jagdish, and Helmut Rechenberg.
The Historical Development of Quantum Theory
, vols. 1–5. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1982–1987.

Pais, Abraham.
Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World
. New York: Clarendon Press, 1986.

Van der Waerden, Bartel Leendert, ed.
Sources of Quantum Mechanics
. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1967.

Wheaton, B. R.
The Tiger and the Shark: Empirical Roots of Wave-Particle Dualism
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL ON OTHER SCIENTISTS

Abragam, A. “Louis De Broglie.”
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
, vol. 34, 1988, pp. 22–41.

AHQP Interviews of Louis De Broglie, by T. S. Kuhn, A. George, and T. Kahan, on January 7 and 14, 1963. Archives for the History of Quantum Physics Collection, Niels Bohr Library and Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD,
www.aip.org/history/ohilist/LINK
.

AHQP Interview of Max Born, by T. S. Kuhn and F. Hund on October 17, 1962. Archives for the History of Quantum Physics Collection, Niels Bohr Library and Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD,
www.aip.org/history/ohilist/LINK
.

Barkan, Diana Kormos.
Walther Nernst and the Transition to Modern Physical Science
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Barut, Asim O., Alwyn van der Merwe, and Jean-Pierre Vigier, eds.
Quantum Space and Time—the Quest Continues: Studies and Essays in Honour of Louis De Broglie, Paul Dirac and Eugene Wigner
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Blanpied, W. “Satyendranath Bose: Co-founder of Quantum Statistics.”
American Journal of Physics
, September 1972, pp. 1212–1220.

Coffey, Patrick
. Cathedrals of Science
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Crawford, Elisabeth. “Arrhenius, the Atomic Hypothesis, and the 1908 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry.”
Isis
, vol. 75, 1984, pp. 503–22.

Cropper, William.
Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Crowther, James Gerald.
Scientific Types.
New York: Dufour, 1970.

Duck, Ian, and E.C.G. Sudarshan, eds.
100 Years of Planck's Quantum
. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2000.

Heilbron, J. L.
Dilemmas of an Upright Man
:
Max Planck as Spokesman for German Science
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Heisenberg, Werner.
Encounters with Einstein: And Other Essays on People, Places, and Particles
. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.

Heisenberg, Werner.
Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
. World Perspectives, vol. 19. Edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958.

Klein, Martin J., ed.
Letters on Wave Mechanics
. New York: Philosophical Library, 1967.

Klein, Martin J.
Paul Ehrenfest: The Making of a Theoretical Physicist
, vol. 1. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1970.

Lorentz, H. A.
Impressions of His Life and Work
. Edited by G. L. de Haas-Lorentz. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1957.

Kragh, Helge S.,
Dirac: A Scientific Biography
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Marage, Pierre, and Grégoire Wallenborn, eds.
The Solvay Councils and the Birth of Modern Physics
. Science Networks, vol. 22. Basel: Birkauser Verlag, 1999.

Maxwell, J. C.
The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell
, vol. 2. Edited by W. D. Niven. Dover, NY: Dover Publications, 1965.

Maxwell, James Clerk. “Molecules.”
Nature
, September 1873, pp. 437–441, Victorian Web,
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/maxwell/molecules.html
, accessed July 20, 2008.

Mehra, Jagdish. “Satyendra Nath Bose.”
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
, vol. 21, 1975, pp. 117–154.

Mendelssohn, K.
The World of Walther Nernst: The Rise and Fall of German Science, 1864–1941
. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1973.

Moore, Walter.
Schrödinger: Life and Thought
. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1989.

Nagel, Bengt. “The Discussion Concerning the Nobel Prize for Max Planck.” In
Science, Technology and Society in the Time of Alfred Nobel: Nobel Symposium 52
. Edited by C. G. Bernhard, E. Crawford, and P. Sorbom. New York: Pergamon Press, 1982.

Pais, Abraham.
Subtle Is the Lord
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Planck, Max.
Scientific Biography and Other Papers, 1949.
Translated by Frank Gaynor. New York: Philosophical Library, 1949.

Schrödinger, Erwin.
What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell with Mind and Matter & Autobiographical Sketches
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1958.

Scott, William T
. Erwin Schrödinger: An Introduction to His Writings
. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1967.

Stachel, John. “Einstein and Bose.” In
Einstein from B to Z
, vol. 9, pp. 519–538. Edited by John Stachel and Don Howard. Boston: Birkhauser, 2002.

Strutt, Robert John.
The Life of Lord Rayleigh
. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1968.

Tolstoy, Ivan.
James Clerk Maxwell
. Edinburgh: Canongate, 1981.

Wali, K. “The Man behind Bose Statistics.”
Physics Today
, October 2006, p. 46.

ORIGINAL SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ARTICLES (CHRONOLOGICAL)

1.   Max Planck, “On an Improvement of Wien's Equation for the Spectrum,”
Proceedings of the German Physical Society
, vol. 2, p. 202 (1900); reprinted in translation in Haar,
The Old Quantum Theory
, 79–81.

2.   Max Planck, “On the Theory of the Energy Distribution Law of the Normal Spectrum,”
Proceedings of the German Physical Society
, vol. 2, p. 237 (1900); reprinted in translation in Haar,
The Old Quantum Theory
, 82–90.

3.   Lord Rayleigh, “Remarks upon the Law of Complete Radiation,”
Philosophical Magazine
, vol. 49, pp. 539–40 (1900); reprinted in
Scientific Papers by Lord Rayleigh
, vol. 6, doc. 260, pp. 483–485, Dover, New York (1964).

4.   Lord Rayleigh, “The Law of Partition of Kinetic Energy,”
Philosophical Magazine
, vol. 49, pp. 98–118 (1900); reprinted in
Scientific Papers by Lord Rayleigh
, vol. 6, doc. 253, pp. 433–451, Dover, New York (1964).

5.   Albert Einstein, “On the General Molecular Theory of Heat,”
Annalen der Physik
, vol. 14, pp. 354–362 (1904); reprinted in
CPAE
, vol. 2, doc. 5, pp. 68–77.

6.   Albert Einstein, “On a Heuristic Point of View concerning the Production and Transformation of Light,”
Annalen der Physik
, vol. 17, pp. 132–148 (1905); reprinted in
CPAE
, vol. 2, doc. 14, pp. 86–103.

7.   Albert Einstein, “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies,”
Annalen der Physik
, vol. 17, pp. 891–921 (1905); reprinted in
CPAE
, vol. 2, doc. 23, pp. 140–171.

8.   Albert Einstein, “On the Theory of Light Production and Light Absorption,”
Annalen der Physik
, vol. 20, p. 199 (1906); reprinted in
CPAE
, vol. 2, doc. 34, pp. 192–199.

9.   Albert Einstein, “Planck's Theory of Radiation and the Theory of Specific Heat,”
Annalen der Physik
, vol. 22, pp. 180–190 (1907); reprinted in
CPAE
, vol. 2, doc. 38, pp. 214–224.

10. Albert Einstein, “On the Present Status of the Radiation Problem,”
Physikalische Zeitschrift
, vol. 10, pp. 185–193 (1909); reprinted in
CPAE
, vol. 2, doc. 56, pp. 357–375.

11. Albert Einstein, “On the Development of Our Views concerning the Nature and Constitution of Radiation,”
Physikalische Zeitschrift
, vol. 10, pp. 817–826 (1909), presented at the 81st Meeting of the German Scientists and Physicians, Salzburg, September 21, 1909; reprinted in
CPAE
, vol. 2, doc. 60, pp. 379–394.

12. “Discussion Following the Lecture: On the Development of Our Views concerning the Nature and Constitution of Radiation,”
Physikalische Zeitschrift
, vol. 10, pp. 825–826 (1909), presented at the 81st Meeting of the German Scientists and Physicians, September 21, 1909; reprinted in
CPAE
, vol. 2, doc. 61, pp. 395–398.

13. Albert Einstein, “On the Present State of the Problem of Specific Heats,”
Proceedings of the Solvay Conference
, October 30–November 3, 1911; reprinted in
CPAE
, vol. 2, doc. 26, pp. 419–420.

14. Niels Bohr, “On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules,”
Philosophical Magazine
, vol. 26, p. 1 (1913); reprinted in
The Old Quantum Theory
, by D. Ter Haar, pp. 132–159.

15. Albert Einstein, “Emission and Absorption of Radiation in Quantum Theory,”
Proceedings of the German Physical Society
, vol. 18, pp. 318–323 (1916); reprinted in
CPAE
, vol. 6, doc. 34, pp. 212–216.

16. Albert Einstein, “On the Quantum Theory of Radiation,”
Physikalische Gesellschaft Zurich, Mitteilungen
, vol. 18 (1916); reprinted in
CPAE
, vol. 6, doc. 38, pp. 220–233.

17. Albert Einstein, “On the Quantum Theorem of Sommerfeld and Epstein,”
Proceedings of the German Physical Society
, vol. 19 (1917); reprinted in
CPAE
, vol. 6, doc. 45, pp. 434–443.

18. S. N. Bose, “Planck's Law and the Light Quantum Hypothesis,”
Zeitschrift für Physik
, vol. 26, p. 178 (1924); reprinted in O. Theimer and B. Ram, “The Beginning of Quantum Statistics,”
American. Journal of Physics
, vol. 44, pp. 1056–1057 (1976).

19. S. N. Bose, “Thermal Equilibrium in the Radiation Field in the Presence of Matter,”
Zeitschrift für Physik
, vol. 27, p. 384 (1924); reprinted in O. Theimer and
B. Ram, “Bose's Second Paper: A Conflict with Einstein,”
American Journal of Physics,
vol. 45, pp. 242–246 (1976).

20. Albert Einstein, “Quantum Theory of the Monatomic Ideal Gas,”
Proceedings of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
, vol. 22, p. 261 (1924); reprinted in translation in I. Duck and E.C.G. Sudarshan, eds.,
Pauli and the Spin-Statistics Theorem
, World Scientific, Singapore (1997), 82–87.