Benjamin Lax - Interviews on a Life in Physics at MIT: Understanding and Exploiting the Effects of Magnetic Fields on Matter

ISBN-13: 9780367313524 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 260 str.

Donald Stevenson; Marion Reine; Roshan L. Aggarwal

Opis

This book will take readers through the life and 60-year career of Prof. Benjamin Lax, a preeminent physicist who played a large role in the development and applications of solid state physics.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Early Years in Miskolc, Hungary, 1915-1926

Chapter 2: School Days in Brooklyn, 1926-1936

Chapter 3: College Days at Brooklyn College and Cooper Union 1936-1942

Chapter 4: Army Days at Officer Candidate School and the MIT Radiation Laboratory, 1942-1945

Chapter 5: Graduate School in Physics at MIT, 1945-1951

Chapter 6: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, 1951-1958

Chapter 7: MIT Frances Bitter National Magnet Laboratory, 1958-198

Chapter 8: Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory, 1958-1981

Chapter 9: Professor of Physics at MIT, 1965-1981

Chapter 10: Emeritus Years and Consulting, 1981-2006