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Total Pages : 295 pages
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Download or read book Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: The Geophysical Laboratory written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hatten S. Yoder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521830805
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: Volume 3, The Geophysical Laboratory written by Hatten S. Yoder and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a century, the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington has witnessed exciting discoveries and ingenious research, made possible by the scientific freedom granted to members of the department. For the most part, this research has involved laboratory experimentation on the physics and chemistry of rock-forming minerals at high temperature and pressure. This third volume in a series of five histories of the Carnegie Institution documents the contribution made by the members of the Geophysical Laboratory to our understanding of the Earth, from mineral formation deep below the surface, to the search for the origins of life, and out into space to study the chemical evolution of the interstellar medium. Field work has taken researchers from active volcanoes to ships collecting ocean sediments, and geological mapping expeditions around the world. Contemporary photographs throughout illustrate the evolution of the department and its research.
Author : Allan Sandage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521830812
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: Volume 4, The Department of Plant Biology written by Allan Sandage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From humble beginnings as a small desert laboratory in Tucson, Arizona, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology has evolved into a thriving international center of plant molecular biology that sits today on the campus of Stanford University. This fourth in a series of five histories of the Carnegie Institution touches on the tangled beginnings of ecology, the baroque complexities of photosynthesis, the great mid-century evolutionary synthesis and the adventurous start of the plant molecular revolution.
Author : Louis Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139442398
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (423 download)
Download or read book Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: Volume 2, The Department of Terrestrial Magnetism written by Louis Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-07 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1902, Andrew Carnegie founded the Carnegie Institution of Washington, to support innovative science research. Since its creation two years later, the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism has undertaken a broad range of research from terrestrial magnetism, ionospheric physics and geochemistry to biophysics, radio astronomy and planetary science. This second volume in a series of five histories of the Carnegie Institution describes the people and events, the challenges and successes that the Department has witnessed over the last century. Contemporary photographs illustrate some of the remarkable expeditions and instruments developed in pursuit of scientific understanding, from sailing ships to nuclear particle accelerators and radio telescopes to mass spectrometers. These photographs show an evolution of scientific progress through the century, often done under trying, even exciting circumstances.
Author : Allan Sandage
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ISBN 13 : 9780521842884
Total Pages : 1794 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 5 Volume Hardback Set written by Allan Sandage and published by . This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 1794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allan Sandage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521830782
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: Volume 1, The Mount Wilson Observatory: Breaking the Code of Cosmic Evolution written by Allan Sandage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its foundation in 1904, the Mount Wilson Observatory has been at the centre of the development of astrophysics. Perched atop a mountain wilderness, two mammoth solar tower telescopes and the 60- and 100-inch behemoth night-time reflectors were all the largest in the world. Research has centred around two main themes - the evolution of stars and the development of the universe. This first volume in a series of five histories of the Carnegie Institution describes the people and events, the challenges and successes that the Observatory has witnessed. It includes biographical sketches of forty of the most famous Mount Wilson pioneer astronomers working during the first half of the twentieth century. Contemporary photographs illustrate the development and use of some of the innovative instruments that filled the observatory during this time. This story brings together the elements that formed modern theories of stellar evolution and cosmology.
Author : Louis Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521830796
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: The Department of Terrestrial Magnetism written by Louis Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second of five Histories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington describes the work of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. A century of research has seen advances in an astonishing range of subjects from ionospheric physics, to geochemistry and planetary science. Fully illustrated with contemporary photographs of people and events.
Author : Georgina M. Montgomery
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119130700
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (191 download)
Download or read book A Companion to the History of American Science written by Georgina M. Montgomery and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the History of American Science offers a collection of essays that give an authoritative overview of the most recent scholarship on the history of American science. Covers topics including astronomy, agriculture, chemistry, eugenics, Big Science, military technology, and more Features contributions by the most accomplished scholars in the field of science history Covers pivotal events in U.S. history that shaped the development of science and science policy such as WWII, the Cold War, and the Women’s Rights movement
Author : Louis Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521830829
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: Volume 5, The Department of Embryology written by Louis Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth in a series of five histories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, offering an exciting exploration of a century of scientific discovery.
Author : Aitor Anduaga
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191071390
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Geophysics, Realism, and Industry written by Aitor Anduaga and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did industry and commerce affect the concepts, values and epistemic foundations of different sciences? If so, how and to what extent? This book suggests that the most significant influence of industry on science in the two case studies treated here had to do with the issue of realism. Using wave propagation as the common thread, this is the first book to simultaneously analyse the emergence of realist attitudes towards the entities of the ionosphere and of the earth's crust. However, what led physicists and engineers to adopt realist attitudes? This book suggests that a new kind of realism --a realism of social and cultural origins- is the answer: a preliminary, entity realism responding to specific commercial and engineering interests, and a realism that was neither strictly instrumental nor exclusively operational. The book has two parts: while Part I focuses on the study of the ionosphere and how the British radio industry affected ionospheric physics, Part II focuses on the study of the Earth's crust and how the American oil industry affected crustal seismology.
Author : Hatten S. Yoder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107412408
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: Volume 3, The Geophysical Laboratory written by Hatten S. Yoder and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume documents the contributions of the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical laboratory over a century of research dedicated to learning about the Earth. Areas of interest range from studying mineral formation beneath the surface to searching for the origins of life, and exploring space to study the chemical evolution of the interstellar medium. Field work has taken researchers from active volcanoes to ocean floors in the course of global mapping expeditions.
Author : Davis A. Young
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830828761
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Bible, Rocks and Time written by Davis A. Young and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2008-08-18 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Davis A. Young and Ralph Stearley seek to convince readers of the vast antiquity of the Earth. They point out the flaws of young-Earth creationism and counter the impression by many scientists that all Christians are young-Earth creationists.
Author : Christina Reed
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438109792
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Earth Science written by Christina Reed and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-23 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a history of earth sciences, providing definitions and explanations of related topics, plus brief biographies of scientists of the twentieth century.
Author : Nicola Mößner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135196643X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Reasoning in Measurement written by Nicola Mößner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers a new understanding of the epistemology of measurement. The interdisciplinary volume explores how measurements are produced, for example, in astronomy and seismology, in studies of human sexuality and ecology, in brain imaging and intelligence testing. It considers photography as a measurement technology and Henry David Thoreau's poetic measures as closing the gap between mind and world. By focusing on measurements as the hard-won results of conceptual as well as technical operations, the authors of the book no longer presuppose that measurement is always and exclusively a means of representing some feature of a target object or entity. Measurement also provides knowledge about the degree to which things have been standardized or harmonized – it is an indicator of how closely human practices are attuned to each other and the world.
Author : Aitor Anduaga Egaña
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198755155
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Geophysics, Realism, and Industry written by Aitor Anduaga Egaña and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Getting Real' is the first book to simultaneously study the emergence of realist attitudes towards the entities (layers) of the ionosphere and the earth's crust. It proposes a new kind of realism: a realism of social and cultural origins, an entity realism responding to specific commercial and engineering interests.
Author : Pascal Richet
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118799429
Total Pages : 1573 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Glass Science, Technology, History, and Culture, 2 Volume Set written by Pascal Richet and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 1573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and up-to-date encyclopedia to the fabrication, nature, properties, uses, and history of glass The Encyclopedia of Glass Science, Technology, History, and Culture has been designed to satisfy the needs and curiosity of a broad audience interested in the most varied aspects of material that is as old as the universe. As described in over 100 chapters and illustrated with 1100 figures, the practical importance of glass has increased over the ages since it was first man-made four millennia ago. The old-age glass vessels and window and stained glass now coexist with new high-tech products that include for example optical fibers, thin films, metallic, bioactive and hybrid organic-inorganic glasses, amorphous ices or all-solid-state batteries. In the form of scholarly introductions, the Encyclopedia chapters have been written by 151 noted experts working in 23 countries. They present at a consistent level and in a self-consistent manner these industrial, technological, scientific, historical and cultural aspects. Addressing the most recent fundamental advances in glass science and technology, as well as rapidly developing topics such as extra-terrestrial or biogenic glasses, this important guide: Begins with industrial glassmaking Turns to glass structure and to physical, transport and chemical properties Deals with interactions with light, inorganic glass families and organically related glasses Considers a variety of environmental and energy issues And concludes with a long section on the history of glass as a material from Prehistory to modern glass science The Encyclopedia of Glass Science, Technology, History, and Culture has been written not only for glass scientists and engineers in academia and industry, but also for material scientists as well as for art and industry historians. It represents a must-have, comprehensive guide to the myriad aspects this truly outstanding state of matter.
Author : Wes Hildreth
Publisher : Geological Survey
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Novarupta-Katmai Eruption of 1912 written by Wes Hildreth and published by Geological Survey. This book was released on 2012 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The explosive outburst at Novarupta (Alaska) in June 1912 was the 20th century's most voluminous volcanic eruption. Marking its centennial, we illustrate and document the complex eruptive sequence, which was long misattributed to nearby Mount Katmai, and how its deposits have provided key insights about volcanic and magmatic processes."--
