More Things in Heaven and Earth: A Celebration of Physics at the MillenniumBenjamin Bederson Springer Science & Business Media, 6. dec. 2012 - 849 strani 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). |
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... light of frequency above a certain minimum , where hvmin = w , ( 2 ) with w the " work function " of the metal , i.e. , the binding energy of the ( most loosely bound ) electron . This law was later confirmed for x rays releasing ...
... light of frequency above a certain minimum , where hvmin = w , ( 2 ) with w the " work function " of the metal , i.e. , the binding energy of the ( most loosely bound ) electron . This law was later confirmed for x rays releasing ...
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... light quanta . Physicists were still confronted with the wave / particle duality of light quanta on the one hand and the phenomena of interference , which indicated a continuum theory , on the other . This paradox was not resolved until ...
... light quanta . Physicists were still confronted with the wave / particle duality of light quanta on the one hand and the phenomena of interference , which indicated a continuum theory , on the other . This paradox was not resolved until ...
Stran 13
... light nuclei , from boron up to potassium . Quantum mechanics gave the first theoretical explanation of natural radioactivity . In 1928 George Gamow , and simultaneously K. W. Gurney and E. U. Condon , discovered that the potential ...
... light nuclei , from boron up to potassium . Quantum mechanics gave the first theoretical explanation of natural radioactivity . In 1928 George Gamow , and simultaneously K. W. Gurney and E. U. Condon , discovered that the potential ...
Stran 32
... light behaves like a stream of particles , or light quanta . This idea initially met with very strong resistance , arriving as it did when the wave picture of light was universally accepted . The resistance continued until 1923 , when ...
... light behaves like a stream of particles , or light quanta . This idea initially met with very strong resistance , arriving as it did when the wave picture of light was universally accepted . The resistance continued until 1923 , when ...
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... light years away in the constellation of Sagit- tarius ( newer data yield a value closer to 30 000 light years ) . We now realize that the Milky Way is a disk about 30 000 light years in radius and 3000 light years thick , together with ...
... light years away in the constellation of Sagit- tarius ( newer data yield a value closer to 30 000 light years ) . We now realize that the Milky Way is a disk about 30 000 light years in radius and 3000 light years thick , together with ...
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From Radar to Nuclear Magnetic Resonance | 89 |
An Essay on Condensed Matter Physics in the Twentieth Century | 96 |
A Short History of Atomic Physics in the Twentieth Century | 129 |
Experiment and Foundations of Quantum Physics | 482 |
The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect | 500 |
Conductance Viewed as Transmission | 515 |
Superconductivity | 526 |
Superfluidity | 534 |
In Touch with Atoms | 543 |
Materials Physics | 555 |
The Invention of the Transistor | 563 |
Quantum Field Theory | 142 |
The Standard Model of Particle Physics | 161 |
String Theory Supersymmetry Unification and All That | 188 |
Accelerators and Detectors | 203 |
Anomalous g Values of the Electron and Muon | 223 |
Neutrino Physics | 234 |
Astrophysics | 242 |
The Most Energetic Particles in the Universe | 278 |
Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation | 291 |
Black Holes | 302 |
Gravitational Radiation | 313 |
Deciphering the Nature of Dark Matter | 329 |
Nuclear Physics at the End of the Century | 344 |
Stellar Nucleosynthesis | 370 |
Atomic Physics | 377 |
Laser Spectroscopy and Quantum Optics | 408 |
Atom Cooling Trapping and Quantum Manipulation | 426 |
Quantum Controversy in Action | 442 |
Quantum Effects in OnePhoton and TwoPhoton Interference | 460 |
From Nanosecond to Femtosecond Science | 474 |
A Selective Review of Two Central Issues | 581 |
Three Pillars of Modern | 601 |
Insights from Soft Condensed Matter | 617 |
A Tentative View | 629 |
Fluid Turbulence | 644 |
Pattern Formation in Nonequilibrium Physics | 665 |
The Collisionless Nature of HighTemperature Plasmas | 678 |
Molecular Clouds Clusters and Corrals | 691 |
Biological Physics | 706 |
Brain Neural Networks and Computation | 726 |
Microscopic Simulations in Physics | 741 |
Physics and Applications of Medical Imaging | 755 |
Nuclear Fission Reactors | 767 |
Nuclear PowerFusion | 775 |
Physics and U S National Security | 781 |
Laser Technology | 798 |
Physics and the Communications Industry | 812 |
Index | 827 |
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