Physics in the Twentieth Century: Selected Essays
Author: Victor Frederick Weisskopf
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Published: 1972-01-01
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780262230568
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Author: Victor Frederick Weisskopf
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Published: 1972-01-01
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780262230568
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Laura Garwin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-03-15
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 0226284166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany of the scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century were first reported in the journal Nature. A Century of Nature brings together in one volume Nature's greatest hits—reproductions of seminal contributions that changed science and the world, accompanied by essays written by leading scientists (including four Nobel laureates) that provide historical context for each article, explain its insights in graceful, accessible prose, and celebrate the serendipity of discovery and the rewards of searching for needles in haystacks.
Author: L Brown
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 832
ISBN-13: 9781420050776
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwentieth Century Physics, Second Edition is a major historical study of the scientific and cultural development of physics in the twentieth century. This unique three-volume work offers a scholarly but highly readable overview of the development of physics, addressing both the cultural and the scientific aspects of the discipline. The three volumes deal with the major themes of physics in a quasi-chronological manner. The first volume covers the early part of the century while the second and third volumes discuss more recent issues. In each case, the development of the theme is traced from its inception to the present day. The list of contributors includes Nobel laureates, fellows of the Royal Society, and other distinguished international physicists. Where appropriate, specialists in the history of physics have written their own commentaries, providing a valuable counterpoint to the physicists' perspectives.
Author: George L. Trigg
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-03-21
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0486151204
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClear, detailed explorations feature extensive quotations from original research papers in their coverage of groundbreaking research. Topics include x-rays, superconductivity, neutrinos, lasers, and many other subjects. 120 illustrations. 1975 edition.
Author: Laurie M. Brown
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing (GB)
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 816
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a major historical study of the scientific and cultural development of physics in the 20th century. Its list of contributors includes four Nobel Laureates, 12 Fellows or Foreign Members of the Royal Society, and many other physicists of world renown.
Author: Gerard Piel
Publisher:
Published: 2010-12-03
Total Pages: 748
ISBN-13: 9781459609006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen historians of the future come to examine western civilization in the twentieth century, one area of intellectual accomplishment will stand out above all others; more than any other era before it, the twentieth century was an age of science. Not only were the practical details of daily life radically transformed by the application of scientific discoveries, but our very sense of who we are, how our minds work, how our world came to be, how it works and our proper role in it, our ultimate origins, and our ultimate fate were all influenced by scientific thinking as never before in human history. In the Age of Science, the former editor and publisher of Scientific American gives us a sweeping overview of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century, with chaers on the fundamental forces of nature, the subatomic world, cosmology, the cell and molecular biology, earth history and the evolution of life, and human evolution. Beautifully written and illustrated, this is a book for the connoisseur; an elegant, informative, magisterial summation of one of the twentieth century's greatest cultural achievements.
Author: Nina Byers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-08-17
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 0521821975
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Author: David C. Cassidy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013-09-02
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0674725824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the twentieth century ended, computers, the Internet, and nanotechnology were central to modern American life. Yet the physical advances underlying these applications are poorly understood and underappreciated by U.S. citizens. In this overview, Cassidy views physics through America's engagement with the political events of a tumultuous century.
Author: Peter J. Bowler
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009-10-15
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0226068668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecent scholarship has revealed that pioneering Victorian scientists endeavored through voluminous writing to raise public interest in science and its implications. But it has generally been assumed that once science became a profession around the turn of the century, this new generation of scientists turned its collective back on public outreach. Science for All debunks this apocryphal notion. Peter J. Bowler surveys the books, serial works, magazines, and newspapers published between 1900 and the outbreak of World War II to show that practicing scientists were very active in writing about their work for a general readership. Science for All argues that the social environment of early twentieth-century Britain created a substantial market for science books and magazines aimed at those who had benefited from better secondary education but could not access higher learning. Scientists found it easy and profitable to write for this audience, Bowler reveals, and because their work was seen as educational, they faced no hostility from their peers. But when admission to colleges and universities became more accessible in the 1960s, this market diminished and professional scientists began to lose interest in writing at the nonspecialist level. Eagerly anticipated by scholars of scientific engagement throughout the ages, Science for All sheds light on our own era and the continuing tension between science and public understanding.
Author: István Hargittai
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0195365569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHargittai tells the story of five remarkable Hungarians: Wigner won a Nobel Prize in theoretical physics; Szilard was the first to see that a chain reaction based on neutrons was possible, initiated the Manhattan Project, but left physics to try to restrict nuclear arms; von Neumann could solve difficult problems in his head and developed the modern computer for more complex problems; von Kármán became the first director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, providing the scientific basis for the U.S. Air Force; and Teller was the father of the hydrogen bomb, whose name is now synonymous with the controversial "Star Wars" initiative of the 1980s.