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Book Synopsis Physics in the Twentieth Century: Selected Essays by : Victor Frederick Weisskopf
Download or read book Physics in the Twentieth Century: Selected Essays written by Victor Frederick Weisskopf and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Physics in the 20th Century by : Victor F. Weisskopf
Download or read book Physics in the 20th Century written by Victor F. Weisskopf and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 20th Century Physics by : Edoardo Amaldi
Download or read book 20th Century Physics written by Edoardo Amaldi and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1998 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important volume, major events and personalities of 20th century physics are portrayed through recollections and historiographical works of one of the most prominent figures of European science. A former student of Enrico Fermi, and a leading personality of physical research and science policy in postwar Italy, Edoardo Amaldi devoted part of his career to documenting, both as witness and as historian, some significant moments of 20th century science. The focus of the book is on the European scene, ranging from nuclear research in Rome in the 1930s to particle physics at CERN, and includes biographies of physicists such as Ettore Majorana, Bruno Touschek and Fritz Houtermans.Edoardo Amaldi (Carpaneto, 1908 - Roma, 1989) was one of the leading figures in twentieth century Italian science. He was conferred his degree in physics at Rome University in 1929 and played an active role (as a member of the team of young physicists known as ?the boys of via Panisperna?) in the fundamental research on artificial induced radioactivity and the properties of neutrons, which won the group's leader Enrico Fermi the Nobel Prize for physics in 1938. Following Fermi's departure for the United States in 1938 and the disruption of the original group, Amaldi took upon himself the task of reorganising the research in physics in the difficult situation of post-war Italy. His own research went from nuclear physics to cosmic ray physics, elementary particles and, in later years, gravitational waves. Active research was for him always coupled to a direct involvement as a statesman of science and an organiser: he was the leading figure in the establishment of INFN (National Institute for Nuclear Physics) and has played a major role, as spokesman of the Italian scientific community, in the creation of CERN, the large European laboratory for high energy physics. He also actively supported the formation of a similar trans-national joint venture in space science, which gave birth to the European Space Agency. In these and several other scientific organisations, he was often entrusted with directive responsibilities. In his later years, he developed a keen interest in the history of his discipline. This gave rise to a rich production of historiographic material, of which a significant sample is collected in this volume.
Book Synopsis Physics and Philosophy by : H. Margenau
Download or read book Physics and Philosophy written by H. Margenau and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended for people interested in physics and its philosophy. for those who regard physics as an essential component of modern culture rather than merely a tool for industry or war. Indeed this volume is addressed to those students, teachers and research workers who enjoy learning, teaching or doing physics, and are in the habit of pausing once in a while to ponder over key physical concepts and hypotheses and to wonder whether received theories are as perfect as textbooks would have us believe and, if not, how they might be improved. Henry Margenau, recently retired from Yale University as Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and Philosophy, is the most important philosopher of physics of his generation, and indeed one of the most eminent philosophers of science of our century. He introduced and elucidated the notion of the correspondence rule. He claimed and showed, in the heyday of positivism, that physics has metaphysical presuppositions. He was the first to realize that quantum mechanics can do without von Neumann's projection postulat- and that was as far back as 1936. He clarified the physics and the philosophy of Pauli's exclusion principle at a time when it seemed mysterious. He was the first physicist to publish a philosophical paper in a physics journal, which he did as early as 1941. He was also one of the rare scientists who proclaimed the need for a scientific approach to value theory and ethics.
Book Synopsis Physics in the Making by : A. Sarlemijn
Download or read book Physics in the Making written by A. Sarlemijn and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H.B.G. Casimir's life, interests and works are intertwined with the important developments that have taken place in physics during this century. This book was compiled by his friends and admirers in honour of his 80th birthday and concentrates mainly on Casimir's achievements in the field of physics, though without ignoring the peripheral areas of the history and philosophy of physics in which he was greatly interested. The book is divided into four parts. Part I describes Casimir's teachers, Ehrenfest, Bohr and Pauli, and will be of general interest due to the key role which these physicists played in modern developments. The articles do give new facts and provide new insights into the history of modern physics.Part II consists of essays on recent developments in various areas of physics in which Casimir has taken an active interest, such as the modern concept of time, statistical foundations of electrodynamic theory and field theory.The subjects covered in Part III have been selected because of Casimir's efforts in the industrial research area of physics. They cover past, present and future expectations in research.Part IV contains an essay which discusses a philosophy of physics currently under discussion, which states that phenomenological laws prevail over fundamental ones for the purpose of experimental and technical physics. A second chapter in this final part gives a critical analysis of this philosophical view.The book is concluded by an appendix discussing Casimir's activities as a lecturer, written by a former student.
Book Synopsis Frontiers of Physics: 1900–1911 by : Arthur I. Miller
Download or read book Frontiers of Physics: 1900–1911 written by Arthur I. Miller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1986 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These selected essays by Arthur I. Miller explore the rich traditions in electrodynamics, electrical engineering, and mathematics on which the physicists of 1905 based their conceptions.
Book Synopsis Twentieth Century Physics by : Laurie M. Brown
Download or read book Twentieth Century Physics written by Laurie M. Brown and published by Institute of Physics Publishing (GB). This book was released on 1995 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.
Book Synopsis Physical Reality by : Stephen Toulmin
Download or read book Physical Reality written by Stephen Toulmin and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics by : Mauro Dardo
Download or read book Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics written by Mauro Dardo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-14 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this richly-illustrated 2004 book the author combines history with real science. Using an original approach he presents the major achievements of twentieth-century physics - for example, relativity, quantum mechanics, atomic and nuclear physics, the invention of the transistor and the laser, superconductivity, binary pulsars, and the Bose-Einstein condensate - each as they emerged as the product of the genius of those physicists whose labours, since 1901, have been crowned with a Nobel Prize. Here, in the form of a year-by-year chronicle, biographies and revealing personal anecdotes help bring to life the main events of the past hundred years. The work of the most famous physicists of the twentieth century - great names, like the Curies, Bohr, Heisenberg, Einstein, Fermi, Feynman, Gell-Mann, Rutherford, and Schrödinger - is presented, often in the words and imagery of the prize-winners themselves.
Book Synopsis The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics by : Timothy Ferris
Download or read book The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics written by Timothy Ferris and published by Little Brown & Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings of more than 60 authors including Isaac Asimov, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Pierre Curie, Primo Levi and James Gleick, are represented in this volume. Each expresses a perspective on the Sciences.
Book Synopsis Heisenberg Probably Slept Here by : Richard P. Brennan
Download or read book Heisenberg Probably Slept Here written by Richard P. Brennan and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the lives of eight physicists and details their contributions to the field especially during the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis Frontiers of Physics: 1900–1911 by : MILLER
Download or read book Frontiers of Physics: 1900–1911 written by MILLER and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: P. W. Bridgman and the Special Theory oj Relativity Ey W. Bridgman wrote A S,phi,ticati
Book Synopsis Golden Age Of Theoretical Physics, The (Boxed Set Of 2 Vols) by : Jagdish Mehra
Download or read book Golden Age Of Theoretical Physics, The (Boxed Set Of 2 Vols) written by Jagdish Mehra and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2001-02-28 with total page 1436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Age of Theoretical Physics brings together 37 selected essays. Many of these essays were first presented as lectures at various universities in Europe and the USA, and then published as reports or articles. Their enlarged, final versions were published in the joint work of Jagdish Mehra and Helmut Rechenberg, The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, while the other essays were published as articles in scientific journals or in edited books. Here they are published together as a tribute to the Mehra-Rechenberg collaboration sustained for several decades, and cover various aspects of quantum theory, the special and general theories of relativity, the foundations of statistical mechanics, and some of their fundamental applications. Two essays, ‘Albert Einstein's “First” Paper’ (Essay 1) and ‘The Dream of Leonardo da Vinci’ (Essay 37), lie outside the major themes treated in this book, but are included here because of their historical interest. The origin of each essay is explained in a footnote.This book deals with the most important themes developed in the first 40 years of the twentieth century by some of the greatest pioneers and architects of modern physics. It is a vital source of information about what can veritably be described as ‘the golden age of theoretical physics’.
Book Synopsis Twentieth Century Physics: Physics in 1900 by : Laurie M. Brown
Download or read book Twentieth Century Physics: Physics in 1900 written by Laurie M. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Of Matter And Spirit: Selected Essays By Charles P Enz by : Charles P Enz
Download or read book Of Matter And Spirit: Selected Essays By Charles P Enz written by Charles P Enz and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2009-01-14 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays selected for this book comprise ideas presented in oral or written form between 1972 and 2000, some of them originally in German or French. They are preceded by a biographical and topical introduction.As the title suggests, attention is directed on the one hand toward the material world which is viewed in its extreme spatial extensions of the universe and of the elementary particles. In particular, the fascinating notion of the void and its fluctuating energy is the subject of various discussions, as is the subdivision of material bodies and its limits. The latter as well as the limit of gravitational stability are depicted in a diagram leading to the ultimate point of the Planck mass and length.The other topic of the title is the spiritual realm which, as in the Introduction, is based on reflections and quotations from religious texts. This rather personal aspect is also apparent in the frequent mention of the author's teacher Wolfgang Pauli, who on the psychological side is associated with C G Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz and on the physical side with Albert Einstein and the author's colleague Ernest Stueckelberg.
Download or read book Frontiers written by Steve Adams and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revolution in twentieth century physics has changed the way we think about space, time and matter and our own place in the universe. It has offered answers to many of the big questions of existence, such as the ultimate nature of things and the how the universe came into being. It has undermined our belief in a Newtonian mechanistic universe and a deterministic future, posing questions about parallel universes, time-travel and the origin and end of everything. At the same time we have witnessed amazing attempts at unification so that physicists are able to contemplate the discovery of a single 'theory of everything' from which we could derive the masses and types of all particles and their interactions. This book tells the story of these discoveries and the people who made them, largely through the work of Nobel Prize winning physicists.
