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Author: Peter Martel Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing ISBN: 1606933418 Category : Authors, Canadian Languages : en Pages : 151
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Coming from humble origins, the protagonist in these memoirs was completely innocent of the fact that like all human endeavors, physics is often strongly influenced by politics. In reading the biographies of famous physicists like Einstein, one often ends up with the feeling that physicists are above petty politics. However, even great physicists get caught up in the politics that often exists in their own laboratories. An interesting memoir with a scientific edge.
Author: Peter Martel Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing ISBN: 1606933418 Category : Authors, Canadian Languages : en Pages : 151
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Coming from humble origins, the protagonist in these memoirs was completely innocent of the fact that like all human endeavors, physics is often strongly influenced by politics. In reading the biographies of famous physicists like Einstein, one often ends up with the feeling that physicists are above petty politics. However, even great physicists get caught up in the politics that often exists in their own laboratories. An interesting memoir with a scientific edge.
Author: Erica L. Fraser Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1442624728 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 268
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Catastrophic wartime casualties and postwar discomfort with the successes of women who had served in combat roles combined to shatter prewar ideals about what service meant for Soviet masculine identity. The soldier had to be re-imagined and resold to a public that had just emerged from the Second World War, and a younger generation suspicious of state control. In doing so, Soviet military culture wrote women out and attempted to re-establish soldiering as the premier form of masculinity in society. Military Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union combines textual and visual analysis, as well as archival research to highlight the multiple narratives that contributed to rebuilding military identities. Each chapter visits a particular site of this reconstruction, including debates about conscription and evasion, appropriate role models for cadets, misogynist military imagery in cartoons, the fraught militarized workplaces of nuclear physicists, and the first cohort of cosmonauts, who represented the completion of the project to rebuild militarized masculinity.
Author: Leonard Mlodinow Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 1984898396 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 241
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This “vivid and compelling account” (The Wall Street Journal) opens not only the inner workings of one of physics’ greatest minds, but also a view into an extraordinary friendship and the human capacity to overcome insurmountable challenges. A BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR (The Telegraph, The Guardian) A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (New Statesmen) One of the most influential physicists of our time, Stephen Hawking changed our understanding of the cosmos. Recalling his nearly two decades as Hawking’s collaborator and friend, Leonard Mlodinow brings this complex man into focus in an inspiring and deeply intimate portrayal. We meet Hawking the genius, who explores the mysteries of the universe; Hawking the colleague, who’s able to communicate at only six words per minute but who punctuates his conversations with humor; and Hawking the friend, who can convey volumes with a frown, a smile, or simply a raised eyebrow. Mlodinow puts us in the room as Hawking indulges his passion for wine and curry, confides his feelings on love, death, and disability, and brilliantly grapples with the deepest questions of philosophy and science. This moving account of a friendship offers us invaluable lessons from one of physics’ greatest practitioners about life, the universe, and the ability to overcome daunting obstacles.
Author: Peter Martel Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing ISBN: 1618979361 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 185
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In the fantasy novel Gator Tango and the Higgs Boson, an American spy travels around the world reporting on scientific developments in other countries. In particular, he seeks information about the Higgs Boson - or the God Particle - an entity that will explain why subatomic particles have weight (a property that is not properly accounted for by current theories). His travels take him to Switzerland, Germany, France, Russia, China, Japan, Tibet, Nepal, India, Egypt and Israel, destinations enhanced by the insightful descriptions of the author, who has visited all these countries. During his missions, the spy has romantic encounters and falls in love with a KGB agent. The woman decides to leave Russia and move in with her new love in Louisiana. The dangers there not only include spy games but a giant monster alligator on the prowl. There's a lot of bite in Gator Tango. On a small island off the coast of Cape Breton, Peter Martel, a young man of French Acadian origins and a high school dropout, set out to find his place in the world. After graduating with a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Toronto, he ended up at Chalk River Laboratories doing research in pure physics
Author: Satish C. Prasad Publisher: Dorrance Publishing ISBN: 148090161X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 44
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Physics consumed most of Satish Prasad's life. It was as if his thirst for new discoveries and higher learing was insatiable that he studied in the best schools to be one of the best in this field. This quest for knowledge and excellence took him to America where he found out that success in not an easy journey and that life was more than physical science. Looking back at all his unique experiences in life, he pondered about the problems afflicting mankind for many years and came to a conclusion that humans living today should deeply think about. Satish C. Prasad was born in India. He came to the United States of America in 1966 and received his PhD in Physics from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst in 1972. He was on the faculty in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Washington University in Saint Louis and Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. He wrote the book Review of Radiation Oncology Physics in 2002. He retired from Upstate Medical University in 2010 and lives in Syracuse with his wife, Jayshri Prasad.
Author: Fayyazuddin Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780199406661 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 284
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This work brings to light Dr Riazuddins contributions to physics and the sciences in Pakistan. He was an eminent and prominent physicist, a student of Abdus Salam, specializing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of Pakistans nuclear weapons and atomic deterrence development programmes. The book also provides insight into the development of institutions of higher learning and research, as well as the building of infrastructure for science and technology in Pakistan.
Author: Frederick Seitz Publisher: American Institute of Physics ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 442
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On the Frontier is Frederick Seitz's long-awaited memoir. Here in brisk, anecdotal style enhanced by dozens of never before published photographs, Dr. Seitz recalls the beginnings of his fascination with scientific inquiry; his academic endeavors at Stanford, Princeton, and the California Institute of Technology; his professional tenures at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, the Defense Department, NATO, and The Rockefeller University; his presidency of the National Academy of Sciences; and more. But On the Frontier is more than a story of one man. In describing his life and times, his friends and colleagues, and the environment in which his career flourished, Frederick Seitz offers an insider's look at the crucial developments, issues, personalities, and institutions of modern physics over nearly a century of development.
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