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Science 30 March 2001:
Vol. 291. no. 5513, pp. 2553 - 2554
DOI: 10.1126/science.1060131
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PHYSICS:
Boltzmann's Science, Irony and Achievement

A review by Leo P. Kadanoff

Boltzmann's Atom The Great Debate That Launched a Revolution in Physics
David Lindley
Free Press, New York, 2001. 272 pp. $24, C$35.50. ISBN 0-684-85186-5.

Lindley's scientific biography offers nonspecialists the story of the late 19th-century debates over existence of atoms and the validity of statistical approaches to mechanics.
The author is in the Department of Physics, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. E-mail: l-kadanoff{at}uchicago.edu

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