John Stewart Bell and Twentieth Century Physics: Vision and Integrity, Whitaker Andrew

Автор: Jacobsen Anja Skaar
Название: Leon Rosenfeld: Physics, Philosophy, And Politics In The Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9814307815 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789814307819
Издательство: World Scientific Publishing
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Описание: A social-intellectual biography of the Belgian physicist Leon Rosenfeld (1904-1974).

Автор: Helge Kragh
Название: Quantum Generations: A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 0691095523 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691095523
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Presenting the history of twentieth-century physics, this book takes us from the discovery of X rays in the mid-1890s to superstring theory in the 1990s. It also shows how the revolutionary discoveries of scientists ranging from Einstein, Planck, and Bohr to Stephen Hawking have been built on the great traditions of earlier centuries.

Автор: Gay Hannah
Название: Silwood Circle, The: A History Of Ecology And The Making Of Scientific Careers In Late Twentieth-Century Britain
ISBN: 1783262923 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783262922
Издательство: World Scientific Publishing
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Описание: This is an original and wide-ranging account of the careers of a close-knit group of highly influential ecologists working in Britain from the late 1960s onwards. The book can also be read as a history of some recent developments in ecology. One of the group, Robert May, is a past president of the Royal Society, and the author of what many see as the most important treatise in theoretical ecology of the later twentieth century. That the group flourished was due not only to May's intellectual leadership, but also to the guiding hand of T. R. E. Southwood. Southwood ended his career as Linacre Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford, where he also served a term as Vice-Chancellor. Earlier, as a professor and director of the Silwood Park campus of Imperial College London, he brought the group together. Since it began to coalesce at Silwood it has been named here the Silwood Circle. Southwood promoted the interests of its members with the larger aim of raising the profile of ecological and environmental science in Britain. Given public anxiety over the environment and the loss of ecosystems, his actions were well-timed.Ecology, which had been on the scientific margins in the first half of the twentieth century, came to be viewed as a science central to modern existence. The book illustrates its importance to many areas. Members of the Silwood Circle have acted as government advisors in the areas of conservation and biodiversity, resource management, pest control, food policy, genetically modified crops, sustainable agriculture, international development, defence against biological weapons, and epidemiology and infectious disease control. In recounting the science they carried out, and how they made their careers, the book reflects also on the role of the group, and the nature of scientific success.

Автор: Clarke Adela E., Fujimura Joan H.
Название: The Right Tools for the Job: At Work in Twentieth-Century Life Sciences
ISBN: 0691603421 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691603421
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: This volume examines scientific practice through studies of research tools in an array of twentieth-century life sciences. The contributors draw upon and extend the multidisciplinary perspectives in current science studies to understand the processes through which scientific researchers constructed the right--and, in some cases, the wrong--tools fo