Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1. Introduction 1
4. Part 1. Preliminaries
5. 2. From Laboratory to Theory 25
6. 3. From Classical Experiments to Quantum Theory 33
7. Part 2. Bohr’s Vision in Practice: The Old Quantum Theory
8. 4. Spectral Lines, Quantum States, and a Master Model of the Atom 59
9. 5. The Correspondence Principle as an Intermediary Hypothesis 87
10. 6. Reception 97
11. 7. The Scientific Moderator 103
12. Part 3. Toward Quantum Mechanics
13. 8. Quantum Corpuscles, Quantum Waves, and the Experiments 113
14. 9. The Uncertainty Principle as an Intermediary Hypothesis 133
15. 10. Metaphysical Principles and Heuristic Rules 139
16. 11. New Formalisms and Bohr’s Atom 151
17. 12. Complementarity Established and Applied 165
18. Part 4. Aftermath
19. 13. Bohr and the “Copenhagen Orthodoxy” 179
20. 14. Bohr’s Response to the Einstein- Podolsky- Rosen Argument 185
21. 15. The Mature Bohr and the Rise of Slick Theory and Theoreticians 195
22. Acknowledgments 205
23. Notes 207
24. Bibliography 221
25. Index 239