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Mark, Hans |
Energy in Physics, War and Peace |
I02414 |
1988 |
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Warner, Brian |
Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope 1820???1831 |
I02267 |
1995 |
eBook |
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Blaauw, Adriaan |
History of the IAU |
I01391 |
1994 |
eBook |
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Hendry, J |
The Creation of Quantum Mechanics and the Bohr-Pauli Dialogue |
I01320 |
1984 |
eBook |
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| 35 |
Cushing, J.T |
Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Theory: An Appraisal |
I00912 |
1996 |
eBook |
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| 36 |
Barbieri, Cesare |
The Three Galileos: The Man, The Spacecraft, The Telescope |
I00808 |
1998 |
eBook |
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| Title | Energy in Physics, War and Peace : A Festschrift Celebrating Edward Teller???s 80th Birthday |
| Author(s) | Mark, Hans;Wood, Lowell |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1988. |
| Description | VI, 404 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Writing even in overview of more than a half-century of professional life of a giant of twentieth century science and technology such as Edward Teller is a daunting task. We ask in advance the reader's pardon for passing over quickly or omitting entirely aspects of Teller's life and work which may seem of major significance but which we, due to differences of perspective or knowledge, speak too little or not at all. We refer those interested in greater depth to the excellent biography by Stanley Blumberg and Gwen Owens, The Life and Times of Edward Teller, and we have (with his permission) printed Professor Eugene Wigner's An Appreciation On the 60th Birthday of Edward Teller immediately after this foreword, so that the reader may consider the perspective of one of Teller's most illustrious contemporaries more than two decades ago. Edward Teller was born in Budapest, Hungary on January 15,1908. While his childhood was spent in the twilight of the Victorian age and its abrupt conclusion in the Great War and his youth in its especially turbulent after?? math in central Europe, he doesn't bear visible scars from it |
| ISBN,Price | 9789400930315 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. Heavy ions
4. HISTORY
5. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
6. History, general
7. NUCLEAR PHYSICS
8. Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons
9. PHYSICS
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| Title | Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope 1820???1831 : The Founding of a Colonial Observatory Incorporating a biography of Fearon Fallows |
| Author(s) | Warner, Brian |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1995. |
| Description | XII, 240 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book, which has been in the making for some eighteen years, would never have begun were it not for Dr. David Dewhirst in 1976 kindly having shown the author a packet of papers in the archives of the Cambridge Obser?? vatories. These letters and miscellaneous papers of Fearon Fallows sparked an interest in the history of the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope which, after the diversion of producing several books on later phases of the Observatory, has finally resulted in a detailed study of the origin and first years of the Observatory's life. Publication of this book coincides with the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Observatory, e.G.H. Observatories are built for the use of astronomers. They are built through astronomers, architects, engineers and contractors acting in concert (if not always in harmony). They are constructed, with whatever techniques and skills are available, from bricks, stones and mortar; but their construction may take a toll of personal relationships, patience, and flesh and blood |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401101394 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
2. Astronomy???Observations
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. HISTORY
6. History, general
7. Observations, Astronomical
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| Title | History of the IAU : The Birth and First Half-Century of the International Astronomical Union |
| Author(s) | Blaauw, Adriaan |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1994. |
| Description | XIX, 296 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This History has its origin in a suggestion, made in September 1990 by former IAU General Secretary Derek McNally, who felt "that a 75 year history of the Union was needed before the col?? lective memory of those who knew the Union before the Second World War vanished. It would then be a preparatory volume to a centennial history in 2019. " Indeed, of those who knew the Union that long ago, few are still with us. Six years ago, at Baltimore on August 2, 1988, listening and reminiscing at the Inaugural Ceremonies of the Union's 20th General Assembly, I realized that it was almost exactly half a century ago that, at the age of 24, I attended the Inaugurations at my "first" Assembly: on August 3, 1938 in Stockholm. Now, in 1994, this is almost 56 years ago, three quarters of the Union's age. Only vague recollections - no better than that -lead me back to this event, just before World War II. And so, this is not a history based on recollection, far from it. Recollection was helpful in that it allowed me, better perhaps than a younger author, to appreciate circumstances under which the letters and reports which form the basis for this History were written. The account is largely based on archival documents, collected from a wide variety of sources |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401109789 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
2. Astronomy???Observations
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. HISTORY
6. History, general
7. Observations, Astronomical
8. SOCIAL SCIENCES
9. Social Sciences, general
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| Title | The Creation of Quantum Mechanics and the Bohr-Pauli Dialogue |
| Author(s) | Hendry, J |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1984. |
| Description | XII, 180 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Many books have been written on the history of quantum mechanics. So far as I am aware, however, this is the first to incorporate the results of the large amount of detailed scholarly research completed by professional historians of physics over the past fifteen years. It is also, I believe, the first since Max Jammer's pioneering study of fifteen years ago to attempt a genuine 'history' as opposed to a mere technical report or popular or semi-popular account. My aims in making this attempt have been to satisfy the needs of historians of science and, more especially, to promote a serious interest in the history of science among phYSicists and physics students. Since the creation of quantum mechanics was inevitably a technical process conducted through the medium of technical language it has been impossible to avoid the introduction of a large amount of such language. Some acquaintance with quantum mechanics, corresponding to that obtained through an undergraduate physics course, has accordingly been assumed. I have tried to ensure, however, that such an acquaintance should be sufficient as well as necessary, and even someone with only the most basic grounding in physics should be able with judicious skip?? ping, to get through the book. The technical details are essential to the dialogue, but the plot proceeds and can, I hope, be understood on a non?? technical level |
| ISBN,Price | 9789400962774 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. HISTORY
4. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
5. History, general
6. Philosophy and science
7. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
8. PHYSICS
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| Title | Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Theory: An Appraisal |
| Author(s) | Cushing, J.T;Fine, Arthur;Goldstein, S |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1996. |
| Description | VIII, 408 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | We are often told that quantum phenomena demand radical revisions of our scientific world view and that no physical theory describing well defined objects, such as particles described by their positions, evolving in a well defined way, let alone deterministically, can account for such phenomena. The great majority of physicists continue to subscribe to this view, despite the fact that just such a deterministic theory, accounting for all of the phe?? nomena of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, was proposed by David Bohm more than four decades ago and has arguably been around almost since the inception of quantum mechanics itself. Our purpose in asking colleagues to write the essays for this volume has not been to produce a Festschrift in honor of David Bohm (worthy an undertaking as that would have been) or to gather together a collection of papers simply stating uncritically Bohm's views on quantum mechanics. The central theme around which the essays in this volume are arranged is David Bohm's version of quantum mechanics. It has by now become fairly standard practice to refer to his theory as Bohmian mechanics and to the larger conceptual framework within which this is located as the causal quantum theory program. While it is true that one can have reservations about the appropriateness of these specific labels, both do elicit distinc?? tive images characteristic of the key concepts of these approaches and such terminology does serve effectively to contrast this class of theories with more standard formulations of quantum theory |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401587150 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
2. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. Elementary particles (Physics)
6. Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory
7. HISTORY
8. History, general
9. Philosophy and science
10. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
11. QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
12. QUANTUM PHYSICS
13. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
14. Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems
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| Title | The Three Galileos: The Man, The Spacecraft, The Telescope |
| Author(s) | Barbieri, Cesare;Rahe, J??rgen H;Johnson, Torrence V;Sohus, Anita M |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1998. |
| Description | XVII, 459 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The idea of having a conference in Padova describing the results obtained by the Galileo spacecraft and the characteristics of the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo began in 1995, when a number of colleagues from both sides of the Atlantic began exchanging suggestions and ideas. Looking at the schedules of the two teams, it was clear that the beginning of January 1997 would be a good time to hold the conference; these dates also luckily coincided with the dates of the memorable discovery of the Medicean moons of Jupiter by Galileo Galilei in Padova in 1610. To emphasize these three elements, the name of the conference was then proposed and accepted by the involved parties: NASA and JPL in the United States, the German space agency DARA, the University of Padova, and the Astronomical Observatory in Padova. I wish to recall a few key dates: In January 1610, Galileo--from his house in Padova--had the first hint of three and then four stars connected to Jupiter. In December 1995, the probe released from the spacecraft entered the atmosphere of Jupiter, and the spacecraft entered orbit about Jupiter. These extraordinary events were followed at JPL by a number of representatives of many institutions and space agencies. In June 1996, the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo was inaugurated by the King of Spain Juan Carlos I, in the presence of Prof. Luigi Berlinguer, Minister of University and Science. These ceremonies occurred as the spacecraft started touring the moon Europa |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401587907 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
2. Astronomy???Observations
3. Automotive engineering
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. HISTORY
7. History, general
8. Observations, Astronomical
9. PLANETOLOGY
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