Description
The book is a survey of the development of atomic theory up to 1923. It covers the development of the theory from the early 1800s up to the early 20th century. It discusses the physical investigations and discoveries that led to the development of the theory.
Into the short compass of this book Professor Graetz has succeeded in compressing an eminently readable survey of the directions in which the atomic theory, as accepted in the nineteenth century, has been extended by the remarkable and almost revolutionary physical investigations and discoveries of the two decades preceding the book's original publication in 1923.