Pauli's exclusion principle : the origin and validation of a scientific principle /
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| Author / Creator: | Massimi, Michela. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005. |
| Description: | xiv, 211 p. : ill ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5778284 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The exclusion principle: A philosophical overview
- 2. The origins of the exclusion principle: an extremely natural prescriptive rule
- 3. From the old quantum theory to the new quantum theory: reconsidering Kuhn's incommensurability
- 4. How Pauli's rule became the exclusion principle: from the Fermi-Dirac statistics to the spin-statistics theorem
- 5. The exclusion principle opens up new avenues: from the eightfold way to quantum chromodynamics
