{"id":110,"date":"2012-02-21T16:23:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T16:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heikegani.com\/?p=110"},"modified":"2012-12-18T02:14:43","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T02:14:43","slug":"atom-the-history-of-atomic-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/atom-the-history-of-atomic-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Atom &#8211; The History of Atomic Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_112\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112\" style=\"width: 109px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/heikegani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Atom-frontcover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-112   \" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px;\" title=\"Atom\" src=\"http:\/\/heikegani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Atom-frontcover-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"Atom\" width=\"109\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Atom-frontcover-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/heikegani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Atom-frontcover.jpg 494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 109px) 100vw, 109px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Atom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jim Al-Khalili&#8217;s brilliant 3 part history of atomic physics. This truly remarkable story is not only about the incredible discoveries that has lead to our new, and sometimes terrifying, technologies.\u00a0 Nor is it just about the fundamental insights we have gleamed into the nature of nature itself. It is also a very human story of the great minds and huge personalities who worked in collaboration and conflict with each other during this incredible period of discovery at the start of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>Rutherford, Curie, <strong><a title=\"Copenhagen Fall Out \u2013 Niels Bohr &amp; Werner Heisenberg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heikegani.com\/index.php\/copenhagen-fall-niels-bohr-werner-heisenberg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bohr, Heisenberg<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a title=\"Albert Einstein\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heikegani.com\/index.php\/tag\/albert-einstein\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eintein<\/a><\/strong>, Schrodinger, Dirac, Pauli, <strong><a title=\"Richard Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heikegani.com\/index.php\/richard-feynman-the-pleasure-of-finding-things-out\/\" target=\"_blank\">Feynmann<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a title=\"Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and Elegance in Physics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heikegani.com\/index.php\/murray-gell-mann-beauty-and-elegance-in-physics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gell-Mann<\/a><\/strong>, and many more, all feature in this quite remarkable documentary series. Featuring all the drama, excitment, love and hate of an epic wartime blockbuster this a story that everyone should be familiar with.<\/p>\n<p>The excellent <em>Atom<\/em>, by Piers Bizony, was published to accompany this series and is essential reading.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Episode 1<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<em><strong>Clash of the Titans<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/xq96un_atom-the-clash-of-titans_tech\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"330\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Episode 2<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<em><strong> The Key to the Cosmos<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/xq9rgm_thekeytothecosmos_tech\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Episode 3<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<em><strong> The Illusion of Reality<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/18128137?badge=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"407\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Al-Khalili&#8217;s brilliant 3 part history of atomic physics. This truly remarkable story is not only about the incredible discoveries that has lead to our new, and sometimes terrifying, technologies.\u00a0 Nor is it just about the fundamental insights we have gleamed into the nature of nature itself. It is also a very human story of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[45,41,44,40,43,39,15,42,6,38],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-physics","tag-al-khalili","tag-albert-einstein","tag-atom","tag-bohr","tag-dirac","tag-heisenberg","tag-murray-gell-mann","tag-pauli","tag-richard-feynman","tag-rutherford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476,"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/1476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}