The Dutch scientist Hendrik Kramers (1894-1952) was one of the
greatest theoretical physicists of the twentieth century--and one
of a mere handful who have made major contributions across the
whole field. Physicists know his name from, among other things, the
Kramers dispersion theory, the Kramers-Heisenberg dispersion
formulae, the Kramers opacity formula, the Kramers degeneracy, and
the Kramers-Kronig relations. Yet few people know more than the
name, or recognize the full depth and range of his contributions.
In this book, D. ter Haar seeks to change that. He presents for the
first time anywhere a comprehensive discussion of Kramers's
scientific work, and reprints twelve of his most important
papers.
The author shows us that Kramers's remarkable and diverse work
makes him at least the equal of such celebrated physicists as Fermi
and Landau. He takes us through Kramers's groundbreaking research
in such subjects as quantum theory, quantum electrodynamics,
statistical mechanics, and solid-state physics. The papers he
reprints include Kramers's derivation of the dispersion formulae
that led to Heisenberg's matrix mechanics; his classic paper on the
Brownian-motion approach to chemical reactions; a pioneering paper
on polymers; and a paper on renormalization, a concept first
introduced by Kramers and now one of the basic ideas of modern
field theory.
This book will change how we view the course of
twentieth-century science and will show that Kramers was indeed one
of the masters of modern physics.
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