Quantum physicists, and introduction to their physics

An absorbing narrative of the development of quantum physics
and of the human endeavors of the scientists involved. Participate in a lively
and sometimes amusing effort to extract a word and conceptual picture from the
mathematical equations of quantum physics!

Excerpt from the PREFACE: I offer this brief volume to introduce and
bring together the history and formal theory of quantum physics. - The story is
told as history in the first four chapters. The initial episode presents two
revolutionary geniuses, Max Planck and Albert Einstein, and their two papers
that brought forth the quantum concepts. The story then centers on Niels Bohr
and his herculean effort to build a quantum theory based on the classical
concepts of motion. Bohr was not entirely successful, but his insight and
influence contributed in no small way to the next great step in the history,
the matrix mechanics of Werner Heisenberg and Max Born. At about the same time,
from an entirely different direction, another mechanics enters, the immensely
useful wave mechanics of Erwin Schrodinger. The last episode of the story might
be fancied as a finale: the principal characters, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg,
Schrodinger, and Born.