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"Subtle is the Lord-- " [[electronic resource] ] : the science and the life of Albert Einstein / / Abraham Pais ; [with a new foreword by Sir Roger Penrose]
| "Subtle is the Lord-- " [[electronic resource] ] : the science and the life of Albert Einstein / / Abraham Pais ; [with a new foreword by Sir Roger Penrose] |
| Autore | Pais Abraham <1918-2000.> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | xx, 552 p. : ill |
| Disciplina |
530.092
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| Soggetto topico |
Physicists
Physics - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-75319-6
0-19-152402-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453315803321 |
Pais Abraham <1918-2000.>
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| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 | ||
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"Subtle is the Lord-- " [[electronic resource] ] : the science and the life of Albert Einstein / / Abraham Pais ; [with a new foreword by Sir Roger Penrose]
| "Subtle is the Lord-- " [[electronic resource] ] : the science and the life of Albert Einstein / / Abraham Pais ; [with a new foreword by Sir Roger Penrose] |
| Autore | Pais Abraham <1918-2000.> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | xx, 552 p. : ill |
| Disciplina |
530.092
B |
| Soggetto topico |
Physicists
Physics - History |
| ISBN |
1-383-00286-X
1-280-75319-6 0-19-152402-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782491003321 |
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Pais Abraham <1918-2000.>
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| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 | ||
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"Subtle is the Lord-- " : the science and the life of Albert Einstein / / Abraham Pais ; [with a new foreword by Sir Roger Penrose]
| "Subtle is the Lord-- " : the science and the life of Albert Einstein / / Abraham Pais ; [with a new foreword by Sir Roger Penrose] |
| Autore | Pais Abraham <1918-2000.> |
| Edizione | [New [edition].] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | xx, 552 p. : ill |
| Disciplina |
530.092
B |
| Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico |
Physicists
Physics - History |
| ISBN |
1-383-00286-X
1-280-75319-6 0-19-152402-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- I: INTRODUCTORY -- 1. Purpose and plan -- 2. Relativity theory and quantum theory -- (a) Orderly transitions and revolutionary periods -- (b) A time capsule -- 3. Portrait of the physicist as a young man -- An addendum on Einstein biographies -- II: STATISTICAL PHYSICS -- 4. Entropy and probability -- (a) Einstein's contributions at a glance -- (b) Maxwell and Boltzmann -- (c) Preludes to 1905 -- (d) Einstein and Boltzmann's principle -- 5. The reality of molecules -- (a) About the nineteenth century, briefly -- (b) The pots of Pfeffer and the laws of van't Hoff -- (c) The doctoral thesis -- (d) Eleven days later: Brownian motion -- (e) Einstein and Smoluchowski -- critical opalescence -- III: RELATIVITY, THE SPECIAL THEORY -- 6. 'Subtle is the Lord ...' -- (a) The Michelson-Morley experiment -- (b) The precursors -- (c) Poincaré in 1905 -- (d) Einstein before 1905 -- 7. The new kinematics -- (a) June 1905: special relativity defined, Lorentz transformations derived -- (b) September 1905 -- about E = mc[sup(2)] -- (c) Early responses -- (d) Einstein and the special theory after 1905 -- (e) Electromagnetic mass: the first century -- 8. The edge of history -- IV: RELATIVITY, THE GENERAL THEORY -- 9. 'The happiest thought of my life' -- 10. Herr Professor Einstein -- (a) From Bern to Zurich -- (b) Three and a half years of silence -- 11. The Prague papers -- (a) From Zurich to Prague -- (b) 1911. The bending of light is detectable -- (c) 1912. Einstein in no man's land -- 12. The Einstein-Grossmann collaboration -- (a) From Prague to Zürich -- (b) From scalar to tensor -- (c) The collaboration -- (d) The stumbling block -- (e) The aftermath -- 13. Field theories of gravitation: the first fifty years -- (a) Einstein in Vienna -- (b) The Einstein-Fokker paper -- 14. The field equations of gravitation -- (a) From Zürich to Berlin.
(b) Interlude. Rotation by magnetization -- (c) The final steps -- (d). Einstein and Hilbert -- 15. The new dynamics -- (a) From 1915 to 1980 -- (b) The three successes -- (c) Energy and momentum conservation -- the Bianchi identities -- (d) Gravitational waves -- (e) Cosmology -- (f) Singularities -- the problem of motion -- (g) What else was new at GR9? -- V: THE LATER JOURNEY -- 16. 'The suddenly famous Doctor Einstein' -- (a) Illness. Remarriage. Death of Mother -- (b) Einstein canonized -- (c) The birth of the legend -- (d) Einstein and Germany -- (e) The later writings -- 17. Unified Field Theory -- (a) Particles and fields around 1920 -- (b) Another decade of gestation -- (c) The fifth dimension -- (d) Relativity and post-Riemannian differential geometry -- (e) The later journey: a scientific chronology -- (f) A postcript to unification, a prelude to quantum theory -- VI: THE QUANTUM THEORY -- 18. Preliminaries -- (a) An outline of Einstein's contributions -- (b) Particle physics: the first fifty years -- (c) The quantum theory: lines of influence -- 19. The light quantum -- (a) From Kirchhoff to Plank -- (b) Einstein on Planck: 1905. The Rayleigh-Einstein-Jeans law -- (c) The light-quantum hypothesis and the heuristic principle -- (d) Einstein on Planck: 1906 -- (e) The photo-electric effect: the second coming of h -- (f) Reactions to the light-quantum hypothesis -- 20. Einstein and specific heats -- (a) Specific heats in the nineteenth century -- (b) Einstein -- (c) Nernsf: Solvay I -- 21. The photon -- (a) The fusion of particles and waves and Einstein's destiny -- (b) Spontaneous and induced radiative transitions -- (c) The completion of the particle picture -- (d) Earliest Unbehagen about chance -- (e) An aside: quantum conditions for non-separable classical motion -- (f) The Compton effect -- 22. Interlude: The BKS proposal. 23. A loss of identity: the birth of quantum statistics -- (a) From Boltzmann to Dirac -- (b) Bose -- (c) Einstein -- (d) Postscript on Bose-Einstein condensation -- 24. Einstein as a transitional figure: the birth of wave mechanics -- (a) From Einstein to de Broglie -- (b) From de Broglie to Einstein -- (c) From de Broglie and Einstein to Schroedinger -- 25. Einstein's response to the new dynamics -- (a) 1925-1931. The debate begins -- (b) Einstein in Princeton -- (c) Einstein on objective reality -- 26. Einstein's vision -- (a) Einstein, Newton and success -- (b) Relativity theory and quantum theory -- (c) 'Überkausalität' -- VII: JOURNEY'S END -- 27. The final decade -- 28. Epilogue -- VIII: APPENDICES -- 29. Of tensors and a hearing aid and many other things: Einstein's collaborators -- 30. How Einstein got the Nobel prize -- 31. Einstein's proposals for the Nobel prize -- 32. An Einstein chronology -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z. |
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Pais Abraham <1918-2000.>
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| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 | ||
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About the Oddities of Quantum Mechanics / / by Josef Honerkamp
| About the Oddities of Quantum Mechanics / / by Josef Honerkamp |
| Autore | Honerkamp Josef |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2021.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Wiesbaden : , : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (47 pages) |
| Disciplina | 530.12 |
| Collana | Springer essentials |
| Soggetto topico |
Quantum physics
Physics - Philosophy Physics - History Quantum Physics Philosophy of Physics History of Physics and Astronomy |
| ISBN | 3-658-34578-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Emergence or supervenience -- Objects, features, relations -- Concepts in classical physics -- The oddities in quantum mechanics -- Resumé. |
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Honerkamp Josef
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| Wiesbaden : , : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021 | ||
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Alessandro Piccolomini’s Early Astronomical Works: I. An Exploration of Their Cultural Significance : With Editions and Translations of De la Sfera del Mondo and De le Stelle Fisse / / by Kristen Lippincott
| Alessandro Piccolomini’s Early Astronomical Works: I. An Exploration of Their Cultural Significance : With Editions and Translations of De la Sfera del Mondo and De le Stelle Fisse / / by Kristen Lippincott |
| Autore | Lippincott Kristen |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2024.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
| Disciplina | 520.92 |
| Collana | Historical & Cultural Astronomy |
| Soggetto topico |
Physics - History
Astronomy - Observations Science - Study and teaching History of Physics and Astronomy Astronomy, Observations and Techniques Science Education |
| ISBN | 3-031-56786-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910887880403321 |
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Lippincott Kristen
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Alessandro Piccolomini’s Early Astronomical Works: II. An Examination of Their Scientific Content / / by Elly Dekker
| Alessandro Piccolomini’s Early Astronomical Works: II. An Examination of Their Scientific Content / / by Elly Dekker |
| Autore | Dekker Elly |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2024.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (266 pages) |
| Disciplina | 520.92 |
| Collana | Historical & Cultural Astronomy |
| Soggetto topico |
Physics - History
Astronomy - Observations Science - Study and teaching History of Physics and Astronomy Astronomy, Observations and Techniques Science Education |
| ISBN | 3-031-56330-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. De la Sfera del Mondo: an exploration of Piccolomini’s universe -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Piccolomini and the motion of the solar apogee -- 1.3 The sizes of the planets and their distances from the Earth -- 1.4 Concluding remarks -- 2. De le Stelle Fisse: teaching the constellations -- 2.1 Historical notes -- 2.2 Piccolomini’s method -- 2.3 Piccolomini’s new invention -- 2.4 Concluding remarks -- 3. Manuscript notes made by readers of De le Stelle Fisse -- 3.1 Cartographical uses: a 1553 edition of De le Stelle Fisse in the Museo Galileo, Florence -- 3.1.1 The coordinate grids -- 3.1.2 Use of the maps to chart the path of the comet of 1652-53 -- 3.2 Use of the maps to outline constellation figures: a 1570 edition from the Collegio Romano -- 4. The maps in De le Stelle Fisse -- 4.1 Introduction to the maps -- 4.2 Construction of the maps -- 4.3 The globe hypothesis -- 4.4 Piccolomini’s system for indicating direction and orientation -- 5. The Tables in De le Stelle Fisse -- 5.1 An introduction to Piccolomini’s Tables -- 5.2 The daily motion of a star: the relationship between altitude and azimuth -- 5.3 Calculating zenith distance and azimuth -- 5.4 Piccolomini’s Tables and the motion of the Sun -- 5.5 Concluding remarks -- 6. Simultaneous risings and settings in De le Stelle Fisse -- Appendix I: The constellation guide -- Appendix II: Map features in the different editions of De le Stelle Fisse -- Appendix III: Explanations of the names and terms used -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Dekker Elly
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| Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024 | ||
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Athanasius Kircher, the Mysteries of the Geocosmos, Magnetism, and the Universe / / by Agustín Udías
| Athanasius Kircher, the Mysteries of the Geocosmos, Magnetism, and the Universe / / by Agustín Udías |
| Autore | Udías Vallina Agustín |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2024.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Birkhäuser, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (155 pages) |
| Disciplina | 509.2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - History
Mathematics History Physics - History History of Science History of Mathematical Sciences History of Physics and Astronomy |
| ISBN | 3-031-53008-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Athanasius Kircher’s life and works -- The museum and correspondence -- The books -- 3. The geocosmos and the interior of the Earth -- Short index of the twelve books -- Preface: Earthquakes and volcanoes -- The Earth center of the universe -- The interior of the Earth -- The oceans and seas -- The subterranean fire, water and air -- Fountains, rivers, and lakes -- The terrestrial element -- Nature of the geocosmos -- Fossils, subterranean animals, men, and demons -- Poisons in the subterranean world -- Metals and mines -- Chemical transformations -- "Panspermia", the origin of plants and animals -- Chemical work -- 4. Magnetism and the cosmic magnetic chain -- Early work on magnetism and the Earth’s magnetic field -- Kircher and magnetism -- Nature and properties of magnets -- Magnetic declination -- Observations of magnetic declination -- The magnetic map -- Causes of magnetic declination -- Magnetism as a cosmic and spiritual force -- 5. A space journey and the vision of the universe -- Introduction -- Preambles by Schott and Kircher -- Preamble by Schott -- Preamble by Kircher -- Dialog I: Journeys to Moon, Venus, Mercury, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and the Firmament -- Dialog II: God’s providence in the work of the World -- Ecstatic Journey II -- Dialog I: The water element and the universal principle of things -- Dialog II: The admirable arcane of the Geocosmos or Terrestrial World -- Dialog III: Ecstatic journey to the subterranean world -- 6. Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Books on Athanasius Kircher published from 2000 to 2020 -- Appendix 2. Table of Contents of Mundus subterraneus -- Appendix 3. Table of Contents of Magnes sive de arte Magnetica -- Appendix 4. Table of Contents of Iter exstaticum coelestem -- Kircher’s Works Mentioned -- Bibliography -- Index by Names. |
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Udías Vallina Agustín
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| Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Birkhäuser, , 2024 | ||
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Beams : The Story of Particle Accelerators and the Science They Discover / / by Volker Ziemann
| Beams : The Story of Particle Accelerators and the Science They Discover / / by Volker Ziemann |
| Autore | Ziemann Volker |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2024.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (X, 198 p. 70 illus., 67 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina | 539.73 |
| Collana | Copernicus Books, Sparking Curiosity and Explaining the World |
| Soggetto topico |
Particle accelerators
Particles (Nuclear physics) Physics - History Accelerator Physics Particle Physics History of Physics and Astronomy |
| ISBN | 3-031-51852-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Accelerator Prehistory -- 3 Nature's Accelerators -- 4 The Echo of Rutherford's Call -- 5 The Cosmotron Meets the Strangeness of Physics -- 6 CERN and the Taming of the Zoo -- 7 A Monster Encounters Quarks -- 8 Spearheading Charm -- 9 The Tevatron and Generation Matters -- 10 Particle Horns of Plenty -- 11 Large Hadron Colliders -- 12 Future Accelerators -- 13 Special-Purpose Accelerators -- 14 Epilogue -- Timeline -- Selected Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index. |
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Ziemann Volker
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A Biography of Our Sun : From Ancient Myths and Artifacts to Modern Art and Astrophysics / / by Laura Pesce
| A Biography of Our Sun : From Ancient Myths and Artifacts to Modern Art and Astrophysics / / by Laura Pesce |
| Autore | Pesce Laura |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2024.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (122 pages) |
| Disciplina | 523.7 |
| Soggetto topico |
Sun
Art - History Physics - History Astrophysics Anthropology and the arts Solar Physics Art History History of Physics and Astronomy Anthropology of the Arts |
| ISBN | 3-031-54729-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1. A Brief Introduction to the Sun -- Chapter 2. Prehistory and the Beginning of History -- Chapter 3. Across the Ocean -- Chapter 4. The Old World -- Chapter 5. Asia -- Chapter 6. The Middle Ages -- Chapter 7. Rebirth -- Chapter 8. The Age of Enlightenment -- Chapter 9. Space, the Last Frontier -- Chapter 10. Contemporary Myths and Art Inspired by the Sun -- Chapter 11. Solar Energy -- Chapter 12. This Is the End. |
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Pesce Laura
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| Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024 | ||
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Bruno Touschek 100 Years : Memorial Symposium 2021 / / edited by Luisa Bonolis, Luciano Maiani, Giulia Pancheri
| Bruno Touschek 100 Years : Memorial Symposium 2021 / / edited by Luisa Bonolis, Luciano Maiani, Giulia Pancheri |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (X, 307 p. 128 illus., 93 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina | 539.72 |
| Collana | Springer Proceedings in Physics |
| Soggetto topico |
Particles (Nuclear physics)
Particle accelerators Mathematical physics Physics - History Particle Physics Accelerator Physics Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics History of Physics and Astronomy |
| ISBN | 3-031-23042-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Bruno “Burl” Touschek -- Bruno Touschek (1921-1978). The path to electron-positron collisions -- AdA at Orsay -- Bruno Touschek and Statistical Mechanics -- Role of Bruno Touschek in the Realization of the Particle-Antiparticle Colliders -- Adone, Asymptotic Freedom and QCD -- The Standard Theory and Theoretical Physics in Roma -- Detectors and Experiments at the Laboratory for Electro-strong Physics: a personal view -- From the hadronic string to quantum gravity and back -- QCD and Supercomputers -- Bruno Touschek and the physics at Frascati at the time of AdA and ADONE -- Accelerators at LNF: From AdA to EuPRAXIA -- Accelerator Physics at IJCLab-ORSAY -- Technical challenges for future accelerators -- The making of AdA: Bruno Touschek’s journey from Widerøe’s betatron to storage rings -- The Making of ADONE -- Spontaneous symmetry breaking in particle physics -- String Theory -- Multi-Messenger Astronomy -- High Energy Physics and the European Strategy -- Circular Colliders in China -- Linear Colliders -- Remembering Bruno Touschek. |
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