Energy In Physics War And Peace

Author : Hans Mark,Lowell Wood
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400930315

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Energy in Physics, War and Peace by Hans Mark,Lowell Wood Pdf

Writing even in overview of more than a half-century of professional life of a giant of twentieth century science and technology such as Edward Teller is a daunting task. We ask in advance the reader's pardon for passing over quickly or omitting entirely aspects of Teller's life and work which may seem of major significance but which we, due to differences of perspective or knowledge, speak too little or not at all. We refer those interested in greater depth to the excellent biography by Stanley Blumberg and Gwen Owens, The Life and Times of Edward Teller, and we have (with his permission) printed Professor Eugene Wigner's An Appreciation On the 60th Birthday of Edward Teller immediately after this foreword, so that the reader may consider the perspective of one of Teller's most illustrious contemporaries more than two decades ago. Edward Teller was born in Budapest, Hungary on January 15,1908. While his childhood was spent in the twilight of the Victorian age and its abrupt conclusion in the Great War and his youth in its especially turbulent after math in central Europe, he doesn't bear visible scars from it.

Author : Richard G. Hewlett,Jack M. Holl
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520329362

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Atoms for Peace and War, 1953-1961 by Richard G. Hewlett,Jack M. Holl Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

Author : Guy Stever
Publisher : Joseph Henry Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309169523

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In War and Peace by Guy Stever Pdf

Science came into Guy Stever's life as a pure and peaceful pursuit. It was only later, as he walked through the wreckage of wartime London that he began to see science as central to a desperate struggle to survive. Past president of Carnegie Mellon University, former Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force, one-time Director of the National Science Foundation, professor at MIT for 20 years, member of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering, and science advisor to two presidents…Guy Stever was a central figure in twentieth century scienceâ€"consistently on the front lines, changing the fate of a nation. In this thoughtful and candid memoir, Stever recounts an extraordinary life that reveals as much about the man as about the major scientific and technological events of his day. Born of humble origins and orphaned at an early age, Stever journeyed from a small town in New York to work alongside British comrades who were developing and refining the critical radar technology that was to turn the tide of the war against the Germans. As a technical intelligence officer, these harrowing wartime years took him from the beachheads of Normandy to the German slave-labor factories responsible for building the V-2 rockets. Stever returned home committed to serving his country. He became intimately involved in America's nascent guided missile programâ€"and was to remain a key player in the anti-ballistic missile defense program that heralded the era of the Cold War. As the decades passed, Stever continued to exert lasting influence on countless scientific endeavors. He was instrumental in the formation of new institutions, from the creation of NASA in the post-Sputnik years to the merging of Carnegie Tech and the Mellon Institution, giving birth to Carnegie Mellon University. As Presidential Science Advisor to both Nixon and Ford, Stever shaped the very structure of contemporary presidential science advising. And he was to chair the oversight committee that redesigned the space shuttle boosters after the Challenger explosion. Guy Stever's life offers remarkable insight into the twentieth century. Through his eyes, we relive the history of the past 50 years, witnesses to a tale of science and technology that is revealing in its scope and sweep.

Author : E W Kellermann
Publisher : M-Y Books Limited
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781907759604

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A Physicists Labour In War And Peace by E W Kellermann Pdf

This informative book covers the pre war period to the 1990s spanning the author s experience of the rise of Nazism on the continent, his research and his involvement in the planning of Science and Higher Education in Britain. He gives a wry commentary on education and science in Britain, and describes his role in pressing for adequate funding for science, especially during the Thatcher era. His research in Edinburgh with the future Nobel Laureate Max Born, one of the giants of Theoretical Physics, led to a breakthrough in solidstate physics. In Manchester he worked with Patrick Blackett, also a future Nobel Laureate, measuring Extensive Air Showers . These are sprays of particles, which fall on the earth generated by nuclear particles from the cosmos. Later in Leeds he was one of the initiators of the National British Air Shower Experiment. He writes about some of the famous scientists he has met, and also of his disappointments which are often the fate of a working scientist. This is not a rounded autobiography. Much of the book is concerned with Kellermann s research in solid state and cosmic ray physics and his interaction with outstanding physicists of the time, notably his work with Karl Przibram in Vienna and later with Max Born, Patrick Blackett and E C Stoner, and his meetings with C F Powell in Great Britain. There is also an account of his meeting with Max Planck, his discussions with the later atom spy Klaus Fuchs and other notable scientists of the period. It is concerned also with British science policy and Kellermann s commitment to promote support for science by British governments of the day. But a life in physics spanning the second half of the twentieth century is also likely to be a life deeply marked by warfare, antiSemitism, and disruption. These intelligently written memoirs (Professor Geoffrey Cantor, University of Leeds) offer perceptive assessments of contemporary events and of many of the scientists and politicians Kellermann encountered. The Leitmotiv during Kellermannss later years was his research on cosmic ray extensive air showers. The nonspecialist will find a clear account of how these showers, caused by enormously energetic particles from the cosmos are clues to its understanding, an account leading right up to the present state of the art.

Author : M. Matsumoto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230504172

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Technology Gatekeepers for War and Peace by M. Matsumoto Pdf

The technological revolution in shipbuilding in the early twentieth century had a great impact on the military, industrial, commercial worlds. Matsumoto focuses on the relationship between this revolution and the structure and function of 'technology gatekeepers' during the transfer of marine science and technology from Britain to Japan.

Author : Max Born
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Nuclear energy
ISBN : UOM:39015030994266

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Atomic Energy and Its Use in War and Peace by Max Born Pdf

Author : Robert Serber,Robert P. Crease
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Atomic bomb
ISBN : 0231105460

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Peace & War by Robert Serber,Robert P. Crease Pdf

"The memoir of a prominent member of the Manhattan Project, and an intimate friend of J. Robert Oppenheimer."--Jacket.

Author : Gessner Goodrich Hawley,Sigmund Waldemar Leifson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Atomic bomb
ISBN : WISC:89077798759

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Atomic Energy in War and Peace by Gessner Goodrich Hawley,Sigmund Waldemar Leifson Pdf

Pandora? -- Havoc -- What is an atom? -- The Greeks had a word for it -- The atomic theory -- Perpetual motion -- The periodic system -- What is a molecule? -- Chemical changes -- How big are molecules? -- How many compounds are there? -- Keeping warm -- The energy in a molecule -- Why fuels burn -- Chemical balance -- Free energy -- A closed corporation -- Where do fuels get their heat? -- How fuels were made -- Petroleum -- Frozen energy -- Rust -- Thermite -- Explosive compounds -- Gas expansion -- The nature of gases -- Mass vs weight -- Potential energy -- Kinetic energy -- Why explosions demolish buildings -- The sun -- Mass-energy transformation -- Inside the atom -- Electrical balance -- Protons -- Neutrons -- Nuclear forces -- Electrons -- Photons -- Electrons vs photons -- Energy -- At Gibson Island -- Isotopes -- Radioactivity -- Natural atomic disintegration -- Gamma rays -- Atom-smashing in the stars -- Artificial transmutation -- Discovery of neutrons -- Mass and energy again -- Modern alchemy -- Deuterons -- Cloud chamber -- A closer look at nuclear disintegration -- Induced radioactivity -- Uses of radioactive isotopes -- The cyclotron -- Uranium -- Uranium fission -- Neutron production -- Fission fragments -- Neutron capture -- The problem -- Probabilities -- Slow neutrons and moderators -- Purity of materials -- Pure U-235 -- The new elements -- Chemical separation of plutonium -- U-235 vs plutonium -- Separation of uranium isotopes -- The gaseous diffusion method -- A production nightmare -- Centrifugal separation -- Electromagnetic separation -- The turning point -- The first experimental pile -- The first chain-reacting pile -- The plutonium problem -- The lattice -- Shielding and control -- The Clinton installations -- The Hanford plant -- Los Alamos, New Mexico -- The critical size factor -- The time factor -- The atomic bomb explosion -- Military future of atomic energy -- Peacetime future of atomic energy -- Electricity -- Steam -- Small-unit propulsion -- Industrial by-products -- Supply and cost factors -- Social implications -- Ave! -- Appendix I. Personnel of The Project -- Appendix II. Canadian development -- Appendix III. Sharing the secret.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Power resources
ISBN : UCBK:C108567702

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Energy Abstracts for Policy Analysis by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Meaning (Philosophy)
ISBN : UOM:39015081707013

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Ultimate Reality and Meaning by Anonim Pdf

Author : William J. Broad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015021588119

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Teller's War by William J. Broad Pdf

A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter reveals how the father of the H-bomb sold the nation the pipe dream called Star Wars. Broad shows how Teller disregarded evidence, ignored colleagues, and continued to promote the Star Wars program. Ultimately, more than $25 billion was misspent on this system, still more a dream than reality. Photographs and line drawings.

Author : Burr Watkins Leyson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015003443259

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Atomic Energy in War and Peace by Burr Watkins Leyson Pdf

Author : Peter Edward Hodgson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Nuclear energy
ISBN : UOM:39015003443796

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Nuclear Physics in Peace and War by Peter Edward Hodgson Pdf

A qualified presentation of all apsects of the effects of nuclear physics, as seen through the eyes of one scientist, who has watched the results of the work of his predecessors and contemporaries and tried to understand their significance. The knowledge which the author imparts is essential to each individual, not only as a Christian trying to understand the significance of this whole new field of knowledge in terms of his own faith, but also to mankind as a whole in its attempt to integrate itself into a world which has been entirely changed.

Author : Javier Pérez de Cuéllar,Yŏng-sik Cho
Publisher : New York : Oceana Publications
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : IND:30000066007034

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World Encyclopedia of Peace by Javier Pérez de Cuéllar,Yŏng-sik Cho Pdf

Author : John Newhouse
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0679726454

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War and Peace in the Nuclear Age by John Newhouse Pdf

"This book covers a lot of ground -- from the stirrings of the 'new physics' early in the century to events of June 1988, notably the last meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, and Mr. Gorbachev's special conference of the Soviet Communist party some days later. In between came crises, confrontations, negotiations and even a few arguments, I have tried to relate much of that and to describe the historic effect of nuclear weapons on relations between adversaries, as well as the singular effects of these weapons on relations between allies"--Page xi.