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This history of nuclear physics sets the experimental innovations and theoretical breakthroughs in the field in the period between the two world wars within the contexts of the lives and personalities of the physicists who made them and the physical, intellectual, and political environments of the countries and institutions in which they worked.
List of contents
- 1: Cambridge and the Cavendish
- 2: European and Nuclear Disintegration
- 3: Vienna and the Institute for Radium Research
- 4: The Cambridge-Vienna Controversy
- 5: The Quantum-Mechanical Nucleus
- 6: Nuclear Electrons and Nuclear Structure
- 7: New Particles
- 8: New Machines
- 9: Nuclear Physicists at the Crosswroads
- 10: Exiles and Immigrants
- 11: Artificial Radioactivity
- 12: Bet Decay Redux, Slow Neutrons, Bohr and his Realm
- 13: New Theories of Nuclear Reactions
- 14: The Plague Spreads to Austria and Italy
- 15: The New World
- 1: Cambridge and the Cavendish
- 2: European and Nuclear Disintegration
- 3: Vienna and the Institute for Radium Research
- 4: The Cambridge-Vienna Controversy
- 5: The Quantum-Mechanical Nucleus
- 6: Nuclear Electrons and Nuclear Structure
- 7: New Particles
- 8: New Machines
- 9: Nuclear Physicists at the Crossroads
- 10: Exiles and Immigrants
- 11: Artificial Radioactivity
- 12: Bet Decay Redux, Slow Neutrons, Bohr and his Realm
- 13: New Theories of Nuclear Reactions
- 14: The Plague Spreads to Austria and Italy
- 15: The New World
About the author
Roger H. Stuewer received a double Ph.D. major in history of science and physics at the University of Wisconsin and founded the Program in History of Science and Technology at the University of Minnesota where he is Professor Emeritus. He has held appointments at Boston University and Harvard University, and has been visiting professor at the Universities of Munich, Vienna, Graz, and Amsterdam. He received the Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics in 2013 and the Distinguished Alumni Award of the Department of Physics at the University of Wisconsin in 2014. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Association of Physics Teachers.
Summary
This history of nuclear physics sets the experimental innovations and theoretical breakthroughs in the field in the period between the two world wars within the contexts of the lives and personalities of the physicists who made them and the physical, intellectual, and political environments of the countries and institutions in which they worked.
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This excellently written and extremely well researched account is likely to become a classic text for its subject-matter. Any physicist who is interested in the history of our subject during one of its most critical formative periods should acquire this book, from which I have learnt a lot and which I thoroughly recommend.
