Walther Nernst and the Transition to Modern Physical Science

Preface and acknowledgments 1. The invention of identity 2. Beginning 3. The early researchers 4. The Gottingen years 5. The Nernst-Planck exchange 6. Electricity and iron 7. High temperatures and the heat theorem 8. Theory and heat theory 9. Berlin and low temperatures 10. The incorporation of the quantum theory 11. The witches Sabbath: the Solvay Congress 12. The Nobel Prize Conclusion Bibliography Notes Index.