Masters of Modern Physics – serie
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Road from Los Alamos
Collected Essays of Hans A. Bethe
Inbunden, 1991
506 kr
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As the head of the theory group at Los Alamos, Hans A. Bethe played a
Distant Light
Scientists and Public Policy
Inbunden, 1999
505 kr
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A collection of essays by a Nobel Prize Laureate on a wide range of critical issues facing the world, and the role of scientists in solving these problems. Kendall has been closely involved with the Union of Concerned Scientists, a group that began as an informal assocation at MIT in 1969 to …
Citizen Scientist
Collected Essays of Frank von Hippel
Inbunden, 1991
256 kr
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"Blurb & Contents" Frank von Hippel has been at the forefront of those scientists grappling with the troubled legacy of our Nuclear Age. Von Hippel offers insights about the choices we must make and how science can help us to make them. Topics include nuclear power, atomic weapons, disarmament, …
Visit to a Small Universe
Inbunden, 1997
427 kr
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"Blurb & Contents" A select group of top Soviet and American specialists reports in this volume from the frontiers of chaos and nonlinear science. The papers grew out of the rest of a series of annual conferences organized by the American Institute of Physics and VAAP, the Russian Copyright Agency, …
Distant Light
Scientists and Public Policy
Häftad, 2012
336 kr
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A collection of essays by a Nobel Prize Laureate on a wide range of critical issues facing the world, and the role of scientists in solving these problems. Kendall has been closely involved with the Union of Concerned Scientists, a group that began as an informal assocation at MIT in 1969 to …
Particles and Policy
Inbunden, 1997
443 kr
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This wide-ranging collection of essays presents the best of Panofsky's most accessible writings. It covers his early collaboration with Luis Alvarez and his later work as researcher and director at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Through several essays--some reflecting his lifelong concern …
Cosmic Enigmas
Inbunden, 1997
362 kr
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"The dominant figures of postwar astrophysical cosmology have been the late Yakov Ze'ldovich, of Moscow, and Jim Peebles, of Princeton. But running a close third in influence has been Joseph Silk.... This collection is essential reading for the cosmological enthusiast." Nature These essays …
Of One Mind
The Collectivization of Science
Av John Ziman
Inbunden, 1997
388 kr
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This superb collection by the eminent physicist and critic John Ziman, opens with an album of portraits of scientists--Albert Einstein, Freeman Dyson, Lev Landau, Mark Azbel, Andrei Sakharov. Ziman takes readers into the world of the contemporary scientist, showing how discoveries are made and how …
Confessions of a Technophile
Inbunden, 1997
384 kr
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In this collection of essays, Lewis Branscomb reflects on his transition from research scientist to public official to industrial technology strategist and examines the craft and ethical values of the scientist.
This Gifted Age
Science and Technology at the Millennium
Inbunden, 1997
466 kr
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The essays in this collection of John Gibbons's non-technical writings show both the limiting and liberating influence of government on technological research and development. Gibbons addresses the issues involved in the government's directing as well as supporting technological and scientific …
Nothing Is Too Wonderful to Be True
Inbunden, 1997
428 kr
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Here is a provocative collection of essays by Philip Morrison, widely known for his work on the Manhattan project, and later for his involvement in quantum and nuclear physics and high energy astrophysics. Morrison offers a stimulating look at diverse subjects ranging from cosmology (particularly …
In the Shadow of the Bomb
Physics and Arms Control
Inbunden, 1993
601 kr
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"In the Shadow of the Bomb" probes the theoretical constraints that underlie science policy questions, addresses past and developing themes in the arms control and national security debate, and discusses the underpinnings and morality of nuclear deterrence. It includes Drell's personal …
