{"id":4105,"date":"2009-09-24T10:30:48","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T10:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/09\/24\/historical-physicist-smackdown-4\/"},"modified":"2009-09-24T10:30:48","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T10:30:48","slug":"historical-physicist-smackdown-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/09\/24\/historical-physicist-smackdown-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Physicist Smackdown: Electric Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m nearly done with Graham Farmelo&#8217;s biography of Dirac (honest), which discusses the major attempts to understand the behavior of electrons in quantum mechanics. this calls for a dorky poll:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/2033391.js\"><\/script><noscript><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\/poll\/2033391\/\">Which theorist of the electron was the best?<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.polldaddy.com\">poll<\/a>)<\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Try not to base your selection on which of these historical physicists has the best biography written about them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m nearly done with Graham Farmelo&#8217;s biography of Dirac (honest), which discusses the major attempts to understand the behavior of electrons in quantum mechanics. this calls for a dorky poll: Which theorist of the electron was the best?(poll) Try not to base your selection on which of these historical physicists has the best biography written&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/09\/24\/historical-physicist-smackdown-4\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Historical Physicist Smackdown: Electric Theory<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,7,137,11,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history_of_science","category-physics","category-polls","category-science","category-theory","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}