Atom Icon Science

Author : Piers Bizony
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781785782169

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Atom (Icon Science) by Piers Bizony Pdf

Riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius, the history of the atom's discovery is as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as the atom itself. John Dalton gave us the first picture of the atom in the early 1800s. Almost 100 years later the young misfit New Zealander, Ernest Rutherford, showed the atom consisted mostly of space, and in doing so overturned centuries of classical science. It was a brilliant Dane, Neils Bohr, who made the next great leap - into the incredible world of quantum theory. Yet, he and a handful of other revolutionary young scientists weren't prepared for the shocks Nature had up her sleeve. This 'insightful, compelling' book ( New Scientist) reveals the mind-bending discoveries that were destined to upset everything we thought we knew about reality and unleash a dangerous new force upon the world. Even today, as we peer deeper and deeper into the atom, it throws back as many questions at us as answers.

Author : Jeff A. Hughes
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0231131526

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The Manhattan Project by Jeff A. Hughes Pdf

Launched in 1942, the Manhattan Project was a well-funded, secret effort by the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada to develop an atomic bomb before the Nazis. The results--the bombs named "Little Boy" and "Fat Man"--were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945. A vast state within a state, the Manhattan Project employed 130,000 people and cost the United States and its allies 2 billion dollars, but its contribution to science as a prestigious investment was invaluable. After the bombs were dropped, states began allocating unprecedented funds for scientific research, leading to the establishment of many of twentieth century's major research institutions. Yet the union of science, industry, and the military did not start with the development of the atomic bomb; World War II only deepened the relationship. This absorbing history revisits the interactions among science, the national interest, and public and private funding that was initiated in World War I and flourished in WWII. It then follows the Manhattan Project from inception to dissolution, describing the primary influences that helped execute the world's first successful plan for nuclear research and tracing the lineages of modern national nuclear agencies back to their source.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814475938

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The Universe and the Atom by Anonim Pdf

Author : Janet Slingerland
Publisher : Nomad Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781619304932

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Explore Atoms and Molecules! by Janet Slingerland Pdf

Atoms and molecules are the basic building blocks of matter. Matter is every physical thing around us in the universe, including our own bodies! In Explore Atoms and Molecules! With 25 Great Projects, readers ages 7 to 10 investigate the structure of atoms and learn how atoms fit together to form molecules and materials. If everything is made out of atoms and molecules, why do people look different from dogs and doorknobs? In Explore Atoms and Molecules, readers discover that the characteristics of a material are determined by the way the atoms and molecules connect, and study how chemical reactions change these connections to create everything we know. This book discusses the elements on the periodic table and why they are grouped into families, encouraging the exploration of meaningful classification systems. States of matter and mixtures and compounds round out the exploration of atoms and molecules! This book supports the maker movement with lots of hands-on activities that illuminate the concepts of chemistry. Readers build 3-D models of molecules and create a periodic table guessing game. Fascinating sidebars offer opportunities for readers to connect the text with real-world science, and cartoon illustrations provide a fun foundation for learning.

Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Atomic bomb
ISBN : OCLC:796894601

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Inside the Atom by Isaac Asimov Pdf

Author : J. Robert Oppenheimer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400860289

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Atom and Void by J. Robert Oppenheimer Pdf

J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the outstanding physicists of his generation. He was also an immensely gifted writer and speaker, who thought deeply about the way that scientific discoveries have changed the way people live and think. Displaying his subtlety of thought and expression as do few other documents, this book of his lectures discusses the moral and cultural implications of developments in modern physics. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Jim Baggott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Arms race
ISBN : 1848319924

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Atomic by Jim Baggott Pdf

A new edition of the account of the race to build humankind's most destructive weapon. This book draws on declassified material, such as MI6's FarmHall transcripts, coded Soviet messages cracked by American cryptographers in the Venona project, and interpretations by Russian scholars of documents from the Soviet archives.

Author : A Lakhtakia
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996-06-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789813104877

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Models and Modelers of Hydrogen by A Lakhtakia Pdf

Atomic theory began more than two and a half millenia ago in Greece and India; but scientific details have emerged — albeit very rapidly — only in our century. This book conveys a glimpse of the grandeur of 20th century physics through nine essays and one interview on the models and modelers of a basic element of matter: the hydrogen atom. The basic ideas are simply presented and illustrated, the mathematical treatments are of a tutorial nature, and facsimile reproductions of ten key papers are included. Using the simple hydrogen atom, educators may use this book to initiate high school students into the grandeur of physics or motivate university students to become science-literate.

Author : Victor J. Stenger
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781616147549

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God and the Atom by Victor J. Stenger Pdf

This history of atomism, from Democritus to the recent discovery of the Higgs boson, chronicles one of the most successful scientific hypotheses ever devised. Originating separately in both ancient Greece and India, the concept of the atom persisted for centuries, despite often running afoul of conventional thinking. Until the twentieth century, no direct evidence for atoms existed. Today it is possible to actually observe atoms using a scanning tunneling microscope. In this book, physicist Victor J. Stenger makes the case that, in the final analysis, atoms and the void are all that exists. The book begins with the story of the earliest atomists - the ancient Greek philosophers Leucippus, Democritus, and Epicurus, and the Latin poet Lucretius. As the author notes, the idea of elementary particles as the foundation of reality had many opponents throughout history - from Aristotle to Christian theologians and even some nineteenth-century chemists and philosophers. While theists today accept that the evidence for the atomic theory of matter is overwhelming, they reject the atheistic implications of that theory. In conclusion, the author underscores the main point made throughout this work: the total absence of empirical facts and theoretical arguments to support the existence of any component to reality other than atoms and the void can be taken as proof beyond a reasonable doubt that such a component is nowhere to be found.

Author : Andrew Nahum
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781785782565

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Frank Whittle (Icon Science) by Andrew Nahum Pdf

The story of the jet engine has everything: genius, tragedy, heroism, a world war, the individual vs. the state, and an idea that would change the world. Frank Whittle always maintained that he was held back by a lack of government support. At the very moment in 1943 when his invention was unveiled to the world, his company, Power Jets, was forcibly nationalised. Yet Whittle's brilliance, charm and charisma helped him recruit major support from the British government and the RAF, who gave him the green light to build a jet engine at a time when to do so made little sense. Here is a story of what pushing technology to its limits can achieve - and the effect that such achievement can have on those involved.

Author : Simon Flynn
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781848314313

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The Science Magpie by Simon Flynn Pdf

From the Large Hadron Collider rap to the sins of Isaac Newton, The Science Magpie is a compelling collection of scientific curiosities. Expand your knowledge as you view the history of the Earth on the face of a clock, tremble at the power of the Richter scale and learn how to measure the speed of light in your kitchen. Skip through time with Darwin’s note on the pros and cons of marriage, take part in an 1858 Cambridge exam, meet the African schoolboy with a scientific puzzle named after him and much more.

Author : Ulrich Ndilira Rotam
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781645302179

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Chrology by Ulrich Ndilira Rotam Pdf

Chrology By: Ulrich Ndilira Rotam The background research for Chrology: Science of All Sciences, Unification of All Knowledge was conducted in a generalized way on several domains to understand if there is a single law that governs all sciences, all literary studies, our existence, and all our knowledge on different generalities in a single model. This research and study led Ulrich Ndilira Rotam to discover a simple and absolute law in its originality that governs the presence of all existence in the universe in a complex way according to the space, existence, time, and scalable factors. Not satisfied with the vision or the interpretation of the world with all our theories: big bang, strings, cosmic inflation, general relativities, quantum physics, our existence, Rotam saw that there was a lack of gigantic pieces that required a new shaping and vision, seeing in a different way all that surrounds us. He wanted to unify everything on one model. In other words, Chrology makes it possible to push the boundaries of innovations on all human disciplines, to see and understand how the whole universe appears to us in our small global world and all sciences, literatures are all united on one model with their limits... a completely new concept.

Author : Paul Parsons
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781623652685

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Science in 100 Key Breakthroughs by Paul Parsons Pdf

Science in 100 Key Breakthroughs presents a series of clear and concise essays that explain the fundamentals of some of the most exciting and important science concepts you really need to know. Paul Parsons profiles the important, ground-breaking, and front-of-mind scientific discoveries that have had a profound influence on our way of life and will grow in importance with our advancing understanding. In 100 sections, this book provides an overview of the history of Western science, from astronomy and physics to geology, biology and psychology and everything in between. Starting with the origins of counting more than 35,000 years ago, Science tells a rich and fascinating story of discovery, invention, gradual progress and inspired leaps of the imagination. Many key concepts and discoveries are defined and discussed including: The circumference of the Earth, Chaos theory, Algebra, Relativity, Newton's Principia, Brownian motion, Pi, Wave/particle duality, Germ theory, The computer, X-rays, The double helix, Viruses, The human genome Readable, informative and thought-provoking, this is the ideal introduction to cutting-edge science and the essential overview for anyone who wants to learn more about these often daunting but increasingly essential subjects.

Author : Amy Laura Hall
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780802839367

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Conceiving Parenthood by Amy Laura Hall Pdf

"The book is replete with photos and advertisements from popular magazines from the 1930s through the 1950s."--Jacket.

Author : Hazel Richardson,Scoular Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0531162028

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How to Split the Atom by Hazel Richardson,Scoular Anderson Pdf

Describes atoms, how to split them, the scientists who discovered them, and what happens when they are split.