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Download or read book Men Who Made a New Physics written by Barbara Lovett Cline and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1987-06-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cline recounts the development of quantum theory, capturing the atmosphere of argument and discovery among physicists in the 1920s. She explores the backgrounds of the major figures—Rutherford, Bohr, Planck, Einstein—separately, but draws them together as they begin to consider each other's questions about the nature of matter.