Reminiscences of Tsung-dao Lee
Author : T. D. Lee
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,82 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Nobel Prizes
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Author : T. D. Lee
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,82 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Nobel Prizes
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Author : Hai-Cang Ren
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 1998-07-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789056996093
This collection of papers by the renowned physicist, T.D. Lee, covers the four main areas of his work since 1985: soliton stars and black holes; discrete physics; condensed matter and many-body systems; and relativistic heavy ion collisions, particle physics and field theory. In addition, the book contains several of Professor Lee's lectures on such topics as the evolution of physics in this century and the strong link between the sciences and the arts.
Author : National Academy of Sciences
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 39,75 MB
Release : 1999-11-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0309066441
Biographic Memoirs: Volume 77 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again.
Author : Dean Miller
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 10,57 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1627125647
In this book, a breakdown of the life and work of some of history's pioneers in the study of physics are thoroughly explored. Notable physicists include Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Isaac Newton, and Galileo Galilei. Their contribution to science and human kind is insurmountable. This book provides excellent biographical sketches for trailblazers in physics. Specific articles are devoted to the above mentioned scientists, among others, covering the contributions to their field, specifically addressing how their research, discoveries, and inventions impacted human understanding and experience.
Author : Andrei D. Sakharov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 44,75 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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The memoirs of the Soviet physicist and Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident who, at enormous personal cost, laid the foundations for the profound political changes sweeping the Soviet Union to this day. 32 pages of black-and-white photos. First time in paperback.
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Page : 402 pages
File Size : 28,38 MB
Release : 2006
Category : East Asia
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Author : Henry L. Roediger, III
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 49,22 MB
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 131776675X
These collected essays from leading figures in cognitive psychology represent the latest research and thinking in the field. The volume is organized around four "Endelian" themes: encoding and retrieval processes in memory; the neuropsychology of memory; classificatory systems for memory; and consciousness, emotion, and memory.
Author : Jeremy Bernstein
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 36,98 MB
Release : 2008-11-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 0387765069
Over the years, Jeremy Bernstein has been in contact with many of the world’s most renowned physicists and other scientists, many of whom were involved in politics, literature, and language. In this diverse collection of essays, he reflects on their work, their personal relationships, their motives, and their contributions. Even for those people he writes about that he did not know personally, he provides important insights into their lives and work, and questions their character, their decisions, and the lives they led. In the first three essays, Professor Bernstein looks at economic theory and how some physicists who developed interesting economic models based on derivatives and hedge funds almost led to the country into bankruptcy. In later essays, he discusses a suspect visit to Poland by the great Heisenberg during the Nazi era, a visit that there is almost nothing written about. Included also are essays on ancient languages and a nuclear weapons program in South Africa that was supposedly dismantled. In one particularly humorous essay, he describes how an ill-conceived manned spaceship to be powered by an atomic bomb was being developed by some of the country’s most powerful intellects. The project never got off the ground. Dipping into these pages is like rummaging around in the mind of a genius who has a potpourri of interests and an abundance of fascinating experiences. Bernstein has not only rubbed elbows with some of the finest minds in world, he has worked and played with them. He has sometimes mourned with them and laughed at them. His sharp wit and even sharper analysis make for a fascinating read.
Author : G. Srinivasan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,63 MB
Release : 2000-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226769974
From White Dwarfs to Black Holes chronicles the extraordinarily productive scientific career of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, one of the twentieth century's most distinguished astrophysicists. Among Chandrasekhar's many discoveries were the critical mass that makes a star too massive to become a white dwarf and the mathematical theory of black holes. In 1983 he shared the Nobel Prize for Physics for these and other achievements. Over the course of more than six decades of active research Chandrasekhar investigated a dizzying array of subjects. G. Srinivasan notes in the preface to this book that "the range of Chandra's contributions is so vast that no one person in the physics or astronomy community can undertake the task of commenting on his achievements." Thus, in this collection, ten eminent scientists evaluate Chandrasekhar's contributions to their own fields of specialization. Donald E. Osterbrock closes the volume with a historical discussion of Chandrasekhar's interactions with graduate students during his more than quarter century at Yerkes Observatory. Contributors are James Binney, John L. Friedman, Norman R. Lebovitz, Donald E. Osterbrock, E. N. Parker, Roger Penrose, A. R. P. Rau, George B. Rybicki, E. E. Salpeter, Bernard F. Schutz, and G. Srinivasan.
Author : Enrico Fermi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 2004-08-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226121119
The volume also features extensive university archival material - including correspondence between Fermi and biophysicist Leo Szilard and a letter from Harry Truman - with new introductions that provide context for both the history of physics and the academic tradition at the University of Chicago."--Jacket.