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Prologue 1
1 In the Beginning: Hydrogen and the Big Bang 6
2 Hydrogen and the Unity of Matter: The Prout Hypothesis - William Prout, 1815 12
3 Hydrogen and the Spectra of the Chemical Elements: A Swiss High School Teacher Finds a Pattern - Johann Jakob Balmer, 1885 19
4 The Bohr Model of Hydrogen: A Paradigm for the Structure of Atoms - Niels Bohr, 1913 27
5 Relativity Meets the Quantum in the Hydrogen Atom - Arnold Sommerfeld, 1916 43
6 The Fine-Structure Constant: A Strange Number with Universal Significance - Arnold Sommerfeld, 1916 52
7 The Birth of Quantum Mechanics: The Hydrogen Atom Answers the \"Crucial Question\" - Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli, 1925-26, Paul Dirac, 1925-26 59
8 The Hydrogen Atom: Midwife to the Birth of Wave Mechanics - Erwin Schrodinger, 1926 74
9 The Hydrogen Atom and Dirac\'s Theory of the Electron - Paul Dirac, 1928 87
10 Hydrogen Guides Nuclear Physicists: The Discovery of Deuterium - Harold Urey, 1932 96
11 Hubris Meets Hydrogen: The Magnetic Moment of the Proton - Otto Stern, 1933 103
12 The Magnetic Resonance Method: The Origin of Magnetic Resonance Imaging - I. I. Rabi, 1938 113
13 New Nuclear Forces Required: The Discovery of the Quadrupole Moment of the Deuteron - Norman F. Ramsey and I. I. Rabi, 1939 125
14 Magnetic Resonance in Bulk Matter (NMR) - Edward M. Purcell and Felix Bloch, 1946 137
15 Hydrogen\'s Challenge to Dirac Theory: Quantum Electrodynamics as the Prototype Physical Theory - Willis Lamb, 1947 150
16 The Hydrogen Atom Portends an Anomaly with the Electron - I. I. Rabi, John E. Nafe, and Edward B. Nelson, 1946 161
17 Hydrogen Maps the Galaxy - Edward M. Purcell and Harold Ewen, 1951 171
18 The Hydrogen Maser: A High-Precision Clock - Norman F. Ramsey and Daniel Kleppner, 1960 183
19 The Rydberg Constant: A Fundamental Constant - Johannes Robert Rydberg, 1890, Theodor W. Hansch, 1992 197
20 The Abundance of Deuterium: A Check on Big Bang Cosmology - David N. Schramm, 1945-1997 211
21 Antihydrogen: The First Antiatom 223
22 The Bose-Einstein Condensate for Hydrogen - Satyendranath Bose, 1924, Albert Einstein, 1925, Eric A. Cornell and Carl E. Wieman, 1995, Daniel Kleppner and Tom Greytak, 1998 234
23 Exotic Hydrogen-like Atoms: From Theory to Technology 242
Epilogue 253
Notes 257
Acknowledgments 271
Credits 273
Index 275