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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Stran 4
... particle duality of light quanta on the one hand and the phenomena of interference , which indicated a continuum theory ... particles as being represented by waves . This concept was beautifully confirmed in 1926 by the experiment of ...
... particle duality of light quanta on the one hand and the phenomena of interference , which indicated a continuum theory ... particles as being represented by waves . This concept was beautifully confirmed in 1926 by the experiment of ...
Stran 5
... particles of positive electric charge . Dirac first believed that these particles represented protons . But H. Weyl and J. R. Oppenheimer , independently , showed that the positive particles must have the same mass as electrons . Pauli ...
... particles of positive electric charge . Dirac first believed that these particles represented protons . But H. Weyl and J. R. Oppenheimer , independently , showed that the positive particles must have the same mass as electrons . Pauli ...
Stran 12
... particles , measured by their range , was correlated with the lifetime of the parent substance : the lifetime decreased very rapidly ( exponentially ) with increasing a - particle energy . By an ingenious arrangement of two boxes inside ...
... particles , measured by their range , was correlated with the lifetime of the parent substance : the lifetime decreased very rapidly ( exponentially ) with increasing a - particle energy . By an ingenious arrangement of two boxes inside ...
Stran 13
... particles by He indicated also a stronger force than the elec- trostatic repulsion of the two He nuclei , the first indication of the strong nuclear force . Rutherford and his collaborators decided that this must be the force that holds ...
... particles by He indicated also a stronger force than the elec- trostatic repulsion of the two He nuclei , the first indication of the strong nuclear force . Rutherford and his collaborators decided that this must be the force that holds ...
Stran 14
... particles was 2A - Z , an odd number if Z was odd . Each proton and electron was known to obey Fermi statistics , hence a nucleus of odd Z should also obey Fermi statistics . But band spectra of nitrogen , N2 , showed that the N nucleus ...
... particles was 2A - Z , an odd number if Z was odd . Each proton and electron was known to obey Fermi statistics , hence a nucleus of odd Z should also obey Fermi statistics . But band spectra of nitrogen , N2 , showed that the N nucleus ...
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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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