This text traces the interplay of forces in the history of light from the 17th century to the 1990s. It provides portraits of many of the scientists whose achievements constituted that history, and of major inventors and artistic and literary figures who contributed.
This text traces the interplay of forces in the history of light from the 17th century to the 1990s. It provides portraits of many of the scientists w...
This text traces the interplay of the forces in the history of light from the 17th century to the 1990s. It provides portraits of many of the scientists whose achievements costituted that history, and of major inventors and artistic and literary figures who contributed.
This text traces the interplay of the forces in the history of light from the 17th century to the 1990s. It provides portraits of many of the scientis...
In 1936, at age 31, Carl David Anderson became the youngest Nobel laureate for his discovery of antimatter when he observed positrons in a cloud chamber.
He is responsible for developing rocket power weapons that were used in World War II.
He was born in New York City in 1905 and was educated in Los Angeles. He served for many years as a physics professor at California Institute of Technology. Prior to Oppenheimer, Anderson was offered the job of heading the Los Alamos atomic bomb program but could not assume the role because of family obligations.
He was a pioneer in studying cosmic...
In 1936, at age 31, Carl David Anderson became the youngest Nobel laureate for his discovery of antimatter when he observed positrons in a cloud chamb...
This is a brief history of the development of microscopy, from the use of beads and water droplets in ancient Greece, through the simple magnifying glass, to the modern compound microscope. The technology and optical theory are developed in a straightforward manner, and this leads to a description and explanation of the most modern technologies in electron microscopy, and scanning electron microscopy as well as the new scanning probe microscopies. A series of very interesting applications of the various microscopic techniques are described. The most recent pioneering techniques in near field...
This is a brief history of the development of microscopy, from the use of beads and water droplets in ancient Greece, through the simple magnifying gl...
"What singles this book out is the sheer diversity of instruments covered this is a very welcome book. It is fair to say that the science of percussion instruments would not have advanced anywhere near so far without the tireless enthusiasm and passion of Rossing and his students."Nature, 2001"It forms a very nice survey work on an entire class of musical instruments I recommend it to anyone interested in acoustics and the physics of musical instruments."American Journal of Physics, Sept 2001
"What singles this book out is the sheer diversity of instruments covered this is a very welcome book. It is fair to say that the science of percussio...
