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  • An American Genius: The Life of Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Father of the Cyclotron

    by Herbert Childs ...
    Born and raised in a small South Dakota prairie town, Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901-1958), the grandson of Norwegian immigrants, was educated in country schools and attended the universities of South Dakota, Minnesota, and Chicago before obtaining his PhD at Yale in 1925. At age 29, he became the youngest full professor in the history of the University of California at Berkeley. He received the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Power to Save the World

    The Truth About Nuclear Energy

    by Gwyneth Cravens ...
    An informed look at the myths and fears surrounding nuclear energy, and a practical, politically realistic solution to global warming and our energy needs. Faced by the world's oil shortages and curious about alternative energy sources, Gwyneth Cravens skeptically sets out to find the truth about nuclear energy. Her conclusion: it is a totally viable and practical solution to global warming. In ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The First War of Physics

    by Jim Baggott ...
    An epic story of science and technology at the very limits of human understanding: the monumental race to build the first atomic weapons.Rich in personality, action, confrontation, and deception, The First War of Physics is the first fully realized popular account of the race to build humankind's most destructive weapon. The book draws on declassified material, such as MI6's Farm Hall transcripts, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century

    by David C. Cassidy ...
    Born into a wealthy, secular New York Jewish family, a student of the Ethical Culture School in New York, later educated in theoretical physics at Harvard, Cambridge (UK) and Göttingen (Germany), appointed professor at UC-Berkeley and Caltech, J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) was on the forefront of the rise of theoretical physics in the United States to world-class status, contributing to the ... Read more

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  • Nuclear Iran

    by Jeremy Bernstein ...
    Iran’s nuclear program has generated intense controversy ever since the International Atomic Energy Agency reported in 2003 that Iran was secretly pursuing enrichment activities. Although Iranian officials insist the program is peaceful, many in the international community are skeptical of Iran’s stated aims—and some allege there is no greater nuclear-weapons proliferation danger in the world ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • An Invitation to Quantum Field Theory

    by Luis Alvarez-Gaumé, Miguel A. Vázquez-Mozo ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book provides an introduction to Quantum Field Theory (QFT) at an elementary level—with only special relativity, electromagnetism and quantum mechanics as prerequisites. For this fresh approach to teaching QFT, based on numerous lectures and courses given by the authors, a representative sample of topics has been selected containing some of the more innovative, challenging or subtle concepts. ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Introduction to Mathematica® for Physicists

    by Andrey Grozin ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The basics of computer algebra and the language of Mathematica are described in this textbook, leading towards an understanding of Mathematica that allows the reader to solve problems in physics, mathematics, and chemistry.Mathematica is the most widely used system for doing mathematical calculations by computer, including symbolic and numeric calculations and graphics. It is used in physics and ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Chernobyl Disaster

    The Nuclear Catastrophe and its Devastating Effects

    by 50minutes ...
    Series series History
    Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the Chernobyl disaster in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Chernobyl disaster. When a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in April 1986, nobody could have known just how devastating the effects would be. Thousands of people died as a result of the ... Read more

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  • The B−L Phase Transition

    Implications for Cosmology and Neutrinos

    by Kai Schmitz ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Several of the very foundations of the cosmological standard model — the baryon asymmetry of the universe, dark matter, and the origin of the hot big bang itself — still call for an explanation from the perspective of fundamental physics. This work advocates one intriguing possibility for a consistent cosmology that fills in the theoretical gaps while being fully in accordance with the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Organic Scintillators and Scintillation Counting

    Edited by Donald Horrocks ...
    Organic Scintillation and Liquid Scintillation Counting covers the proceeding of The International Conference on Organic Scintillators and Liquid Scintillation Counting, which was held on July 7-10, 1970 at the University of California, San Francisco. This conference was held to discuss ideas concerned with the theory and physics of organic scintillators and the use of liquid scintillation for ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • Cross-Magnetic Turbulent Diffusion of Charged Particles in a Weakly Ionized Plasma

    by Michio Matsumoto ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)

    $49.49 USD

  • Elementary Particle Physics

    Foundations of the Standard Model V2

    by Yorikiyo Nagashima ...
    This second volume of Elementary Particle Physics, "Foundations of the Standard Model", concentrates on the main aspects of the Standard Model by addressing developments from its establishments to recent progress and some future prospects. Two subjects are clearly separated which cover dynamics of the electroweak and strong interactions, but basso continuo throughout the book is a bridge between ... Read more

    $165.00 USD