Lise Meitner

Ruth Lewin Sime

• Paperback | Engels | California Studies in the History of Science | nr. 13
• Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was a pioneer of nuclear physics and co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission. Braving the sexi... Lees meer

Lawrence and His Laboratory

J L Heilbron, Robert W Seidel

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in the History of Science | nr. 5
• The Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California, was the birthplace of particle accelerators, radioisotopes, and modern big science. This first volum... Lees meer

Hermann Von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in the History of Science | nr. 10
• Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) was a polymath of dazzling intellectual range and energy. Renowned for his co-discovery of the second law of thermod... Lees meer

Physics and Politics in Revolutionary Russia

Paul R Josephson

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in the History of Science | nr. 7
• Aided by personal documents and institutional archives that were closed for decades, this book recounts the development of physics-or, more aptly, sci... Lees meer

The Galileo Affair

• Paperback | Engels | California Studies in the History of Science | nr. 1
• In 1633 the Roman Inquisition concluded the trial of Galileo Galilei with a condemnation for heresy. The trial was itself the climax of a series of ev... Lees meer