More Things in Heaven and Earth: A Celebration of Physics at the Millennium

ISBN-13: 9781461271741 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 849 str.

Benjamin Bederson

Opis

The 20th century has been the century of physics, a period of unparalleled scientific advances fueled primarily by discoveries by physicists. The 20th century also represents the life span of the American Physical Society, not coincidentally, and to celebrate both its own centennial and this remarkable century, the APS has prepared a book highlighting the seminal discoveries of the 20th century, with invited articles by the world's most eminent living physicists, including 12 physics Nobel Prize winners. Included will be chapters by R. Richardson on superfludity, J. Lebowitz on statistical mechanics, P. deGennes on granular material, J. Hopfield on neural networks, C. Wieman on matter waves, A. Pais on high energy physics in the early 20th century . The book will contain about 40 chapters on a broad range of topics in physics written in an engaging and personal style. While the technical level is high, these are not review articles, but rather perspectives on discoveries written by those scientists most closely assoicated with the original work as well future directions of research. The book will be promoted to the meeting attendees in advance of the March meeting, and should be of interest to the broad scientific community. Ben Bederson, professor of physics at NYU, was editor in chief of the APS journals from 1986-1997. He is also editor of the Advances in Atomic Physics Series (Academic Press)

Spis treści

Historic Perspectives—Personal Essays on Historic Developments.- Quantum Theory.- Nuclear Physics.- Theoretical Particle Physics.- Elementary Particle Physics: The Origins.- Astrophysics.- A Century of Relativity.- From Radar to Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.- An Essay on Condensed Matter Physics in the Twentieth Century.- A Short History of Atomic Physics in the Twentieth Century.- Particle Physics and Related Topics.- Quantum Field Theory.- The Standard Model of Particle Physics.- String Theory, Supersymmetry, Unification, and All That.- Accelerators and Detectors.- Anomalous g Values of the Electron and Muon.- Neutrino Physics.- Astrophysics.- Cosmology at The Millennium.- Cosmic Rays: The Most Energetic Particles in the Universe.- Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation.- Black Holes.- Gravitational Radiation.- Deciphering the Nature of Dark Matter.- Nuclear Physics.- Nuclear Physics at the End of the Century.- Stellar Nucleosynthesis.- Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics.- Atomic Physics.- Laser Spectroscopy and Quantum Optics.- Atom Cooling, Trapping, and Quantum Manipulation.- Laser Physics: Quantum Controversy in Action.- Quantum Effects in One-Photon and Two-Photon Interference.- From Nanosecond to Femtosecond Science.- Experiment and Foundations of Quantum Physics.- Condensed Matter Physics.- The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect.- Conductance Viewed as Transmission.- Superconductivity.- Superfluidity.- In Touch with Atoms.- Materials Physics.- The Invention of the Transistor.- Statistical Physics and Fluids.- Statistical Mechanics: A Selective Review of Two Central Issues.- Scaling, Universality, and Renormalization: Three Pillars of Modern Critical Phenomena.- Insights from Soft Condensed Matter.- Granular Matter: A Tentative View.- Fluid Turbulence.- Pattern Formation in Nonequilibrium Physics.- Plasma Physics.- The Collisionless Nature of High-Temperature Plasmas.- Chemical Physics and Biological Physics.- Chemical Physics: Molecular Clouds, Clusters, and Corrals.- Biological Physics.- Brain, Neural Networks, and Computation.- Computational Physics.- Microscopic Simulations in Physics.- Applications of Physics to Other Areas.- Physics and Applications of Medical Imaging.- Nuclear Fission Reactors.- Nuclear Power—Fusion.- Physics and U.S. National Security.- Laser Technology.- Physics and the Communications Industry.