Ｄ．Ａ．ブロムリー著：２０世紀の物理学 A Century of Physics

Bromley, David A.

Springer（2002発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 130 p., 117 figures.
• 商品コード 9780387952475

基本説明

アメリカ物理学会の百年祭の機会に、過去１００年間にわたる物理学の驚異的な発展について回想している。２０世紀物理学の歴史的な発展が図示され、２０世紀物理学の発展と２１世紀物理学への期待について語られている。 版元品切
Contents: An Historical Overview, 1900-1949; Activities in the Cambridge Cavendish Laboratory; The Manhattan Project; The MIT Radiation Laboratory; The Explosive Growth of Post-War Physics, 1950-1999; Surface Science; Fluid Physics; Self-Similarity; Development of the Transistor

Full Description

In this amazing tour d'horizon, D. Allan Bromley uses the occasion of the centenary of the American Physical Society to reflect upon the growth of physics over the past 100 years, its fragmentation into numerous subdisciplines, the impact physics has had upon modern technology, and the re-emergence of the fundamental unity of the discipline in recent years. Hundreds of historical illustrations accompany the text. Bromley conveys much of the excitement and wonder that research in physics generated in the 20th century and asks what new things are in store in the next century. He covers such topics as relativity and quantum mechanics, the Manhattan project, superconductivity, transistors and the revolution brought about by solid-state electronics, protein folding, the uses of nuclear and atomic physics in biology and medicine, plate tectonics, the expansion of the universe and the Big Bang, and gravitational radiation. Bromley, the Sterling Professor of the Sciences and Dean of Yale University, served as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology Policy 1989-1993 and was president of the American Physical Society in 1997. One of the World's leading nuclear scientists, he was founder and director of Yale's nuclear structure laboratory and has received numerous medals and awards, including the National Medal of Science.