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Author: Malcolm Longair
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-07-07
Total Pages: 687
ISBN-13: 1107083699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn authoritative scientific history of a world-leading physics laboratory from its origins in the late nineteenth century to the present day.
Author: Cavendish Laboratory (Cambridge, Cambridgeshire)
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Published: 1910
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 5878726807
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Author: Jaume Navarro
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-09-06
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1107005221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn intellectual biography of J. J. and G. P. Thomson for academics and graduate students, focusing on the concept of the electron.
Author: Joseph John Thomson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-11-03
Total Pages: 483
ISBN-13: 1108037925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1936 memoir by J. J. Thomson gives a fascinating picture of Cambridge scientific research during the period 1876-1936.
Author: Jed Z. Buchwald
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2004-01-30
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780262524247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography of the electron and a history of the microphysical world that it opened up.
Author: Harry Cliff
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2021-08-10
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 0385545665
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNAMED A BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF 2021 BY KIRKUS * An acclaimed experimental physicist at CERN takes you on an exhilarating search for the most basic building blocks of our universe, and the dramatic quest to unlock their cosmic origins. "A fascinating exploration of how we learned what matter really is, and the journey matter takes from the Big Bang, through exploding stars, ultimately to you and me." (Sean Carroll) Carl Sagan once quipped, “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” But finding the ultimate recipe for apple pie means answering some big questions: What is matter really made of? How did it escape annihilation in the fearsome heat of the Big Bang? And will we ever be able to understand the very first moments of our universe? In How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch, Harry Cliff—a University of Cambridge particle physicist and researcher on the Large Hadron Collider—sets out in pursuit of answers. He ventures to the largest underground research facility in the world, deep beneath Italy's Gran Sasso mountains, where scientists gaze into the heart of the Sun using the most elusive of particles, the ghostly neutrino. He visits CERN in Switzerland to explore the "Antimatter Factory," where the stuff of science fiction is manufactured daily (and we're close to knowing whether it falls up). And he reveals what the latest data from the Large Hadron Collider may be telling us about the fundamental nature of matter. Along the way, Cliff illuminates the history of physics, chemistry, and astronomy that brought us to our present understanding—and misunderstandings—of the world, while offering readers a front-row seat to one of the most dramatic intellectual journeys human beings have ever embarked on. A transfixing deep dive into the origins of our world, How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch examines not just the makeup of our universe, but the awe-inspiring, improbable fact that it exists at all.
Author: Paul M. Wassarman
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0199732043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Place in History: The Biography of John C. Kendrew is the story of the influential 20th century scientific pioneer and winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Author: Peter Michael Harman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-01-21
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780521786126
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the 'scientific revolution' of the seventeenth century, a great number of distinguished scientists and mathematicians have been associated with the University of Cambridge. Cambridge Scientific Minds provides a portrait of some of the most eminent scientists associated with the University over the past 400 years, including accounts of the work of three of the greatest figures in the entire history of science, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and James Clerk Maxwell. The chronological balance reflects the increasing importance of science in the recent history of the University. The book comprises personal memoirs and historical essays, including contributions by leading Cambridge scientists. Cambridge Scientific Minds will be of interest not only to graduates of the University, science students and historians of science, but to anyone wishing to gain an insight into some of the greatest scientific minds in history.
Author: E. A. Davis
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 0203484096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis historical survey of the discovery of the electron has been published to coincide with the centenary of the discovery. The text maps the life and achievements of J.J. Thomson, with particular focus on his ideas and experiments leading to the discovery. It describes Thomson's early years and education. It then considers his career at Cambridge, first as a fellow of Trinity, later as the head of the Cavendish Laboratory and finally as Master of Trinity and national spokesman for science. The core of the book is concerned with the work undertaken at the Cavendish, culminating in the discovery of "corpuscles", later named "electrons".; In the final two chapters, the immediate aftermath and implications of the work are described. These include the creation of the subject of atomic physics as well as the broader long term developments which can be traced from vacuum valves and the transistor through to the microelectronics revolution.
Author: Richard Mason
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-09
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521456258
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction, written by leading authorities, to many of the major modern achievements of Cambridge University.
