Yoshio Nishina : Father of Modern Physics in Japan

ISBN-13: 9780750307550 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 216 str.

Kim Kim; Dong-Won Kim

Opis

An easy-to-read biography that analyzes Yoshio Nishina's position in and his contributions to the Japanese physics community. It examines Nishina's family and early studies and focuses on his work in quantum mechanics, particularly the Klein-Nishina formula for Compton scattering. It describes the establishment of the Nishina Laboratory at RIKEN.

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YOUTH
The Nishina Family
Yoshio Nishina the Student
Institute of Physical and Chemical Research
Japan's Physics Community in the Early Twentieth Century

NISHINA IN EUROPE
Heading for Europe
Cambridge and Göttingen
Research in Experimental Subjects at Copenhagen
The New Quantum Mechanics and the Klein-Nishina Formula
A Truly Accomplished Researcher

PREACHER OF THE NEW QUANTUM MECHANICS
The Introduction of the New Quantum Mechanics to Japan during the 1920s
Nishina the Preacher of the New Quantum Mechanics

BELOVED SENSEI (TEACHER): THEORETICAL RESEARCH AND THE EMERGENCE OF A RESEARCH NETWORK
A New Kind of Boss at RIKEN
The Theory Group
The Emergence of a Research Network

COSMIC RAY RESEARCH: "THIS IS INTERESTING. LET US TRY IT."
Cosmic Ray Research in the Early Twentieth Century
The Effect of the 10th Subcommittee of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science on Cosmic Ray Research in Japan
The Cosmic Ray Research Group
Cosmic Ray Research and the Meson Theory: Cooperation between Experimentalists and Theoreticians

FATHER OF BIG SCIENCE: THE CONSTRUCTION OF TWO CYCLOTRONS
The Small (26-inch) Cyclotron
The Large (60- inch) Cyclotron
The Legacy of Two Cyclotrons

STATESMAN OF SCIENCE

APPENDIX: SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN YOSHIO NISHINA AND ERNEST O. LAWRENCE

INDEX

O autorze

Dong-Won Kim