A Century of PhysicsSpringer Science & Business Media, 2002 - 114 sider In this amazing tour d'horizon, D. Allan Bromley uses the occasion of the centenary of the American Physical Society to reflect upon the growth of physics over the past 100 years, its fragmentation into numerous subdisciplines, the impact physics has had upon modern technology, and the re-emergence of the fundamental unity of the discipline in recent years. Hundreds of historical illustrations accompany the text. Bromley conveys much of the excitement and wonder that research in physics generated in the 20th century and asks what new things are in store in the next century. He covers such topics as relativity and quantum mechanics, the Manhattan project, superconductivity, transistors and the revolution brought about by solid-state electronics, protein folding, the uses of nuclear and atomic physics in biology and medicine, plate tectonics, the expansion of the universe and the Big Bang, and gravitational radiation. Bromley is the Sterling Professor of the Sciences and Dean of Yale University.||From the reviews:||"...A panoramic view of the physics landscape of the past century, in which are embedded an impressive number of major physics accomplishments. And [the book] describes these accomplishments in a language that is comprehensible to an educated reader with or without training in physics...In choice of topics, Bromley is about as complete as can be imagined...An immensely entertaining and illuminating read."|- Physics Today |
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An Historical Overview 19001949 | 1 |
The Early Twentieth Century | 2 |
Activities in the Cambridge Cavendish Laboratory | 3 |
The Development of Quantum Mechanics | 9 |
The Discovery of Nuclear Fission | 18 |
The MIT Radiation Laboratory | 27 |
The Merger of Natural Philosophy and Invention | 28 |
Physics in the 1930s | 29 |
Improved Resolution and Higher Precision | 60 |
Trapping and Cooling of Elementary Particles and Atoms | 62 |
BoseEinstem Condensates | 64 |
Frontiers of Nuclear Structure Physics | 67 |
The Phase Diagram for Nuclear Matter | 74 |
Atomic and Nuclear Technology in Biology and Medicine | 75 |
The Merging of Elementary Particle Physics and Cosmology | 82 |
The Building Blocks of Nature | 86 |
The Explosive Growth of Postwar Physics 19501999 | 31 |
Materials Science | 32 |
Superconductivity | 35 |
Buckyballs and Nanotunes | 40 |
Surface Science | 41 |
Fluid Physics | 43 |
SelfSimilarity | 46 |
Development of the Transistor | 48 |
Breakthroughs in Communication | 53 |
Computational Chemistry | 55 |
Folding of Proteins | 56 |
Photon Probes | 57 |
String Theory | 88 |
Plasma Physics | 91 |
Plate Tectonics in Geophysics | 94 |
The Structure of Supernovae | 95 |
Gravitational Radiation | 99 |
The Evolution of Our Universe | 102 |
The COBE Measurements on the CMB | 103 |
The Inflationary Universe | 105 |
The Structure of the Milky Way Galaxy | 106 |
Gravitational Lensing | 109 |
Concluding Remarks | 111 |
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