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Physics --- Physique --- Physics.

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A collection of offbeat, entertaining and primarily nontechnical essays on physics and those who practice it, from eminent theoretical physicist N. David Mermin. Bringing together for the first time all thirty of his columns published in Physics Today's Reference Frame series from 1988 to 2009, with updating commentary, this humorous and unusual volume includes thirteen other essays, many of them previously unpublished. Mermin's lively and penetrating writing illuminates a broad range of topics, from the implications of bad spelling in a major science journal, to the crises of science libraries and scientific periodicals, the folly of scientific prizes and honors, the agony of getting funding, and how to pronounce 'quark'. His witty observations and insightful anecdotes gleaned from a lifetime in science will entertain physicists at all levels, as well as anyone else interested in science or scientists at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Physics --- Science --- Physique --- Sciences

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When physicists began to explore the world of the atom more precisely in an attempt to understand its structure and the laws which govern its behaviour, they soon encountered serious difficulties. Our intuitive concepts, based on our daily experience of the macroscopic world around us, turned out to be totally wrong on the atomic scale; the atom was incomprehensible in classical physics. To unravel these new mysteries, it was therefore necessary, after long trial and error, to develop entirely new concepts, the concepts of quantum mechanics. What are the main steps that led us to this modern vision of the atom? Where is atomic physics currently? What is its contribution to the development of our knowledge and where is it heading?

Physics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Atomic Physics --- physique atomique --- physique moléculaire --- théorie physique --- physique quantique

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Physics --- Physique --- Research --- Recherche