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Title
From falling bodies to radio waves

Author
Emilio Segre

format
Paperback

Publisher
Dover Publications, Inc.

Language
English

UK Publication Date
20070525

Description

Hailed by the Journal of the History of Astronomy as "charming and witty," this chronicle by a renowned physicist traces the development of scientific thought from the works of the "founding fathers" - Galileo, Huygens, and Newton - to the more recent discoveries of Maxwell, Boltzmann, and Gibbs. 1984 edition.

Emilio G. Segr: The History of PhysicsEmilio Segr (1905-1989) became, in 1928, the first student to earn a doctorate in physics at The University of Rome under Enrico Fermi. A decade later, restrictive fascist laws against Jews in academic positions in Italy turned Segr into an academic refugee - he settled in Berkeley where, in 1955, with colleague Owen Chamberlain, he proved the existence of the antiproton, a negatively charged proton that destroys itself as well as the matter it strikes. In 1959, Segr and Chamberlain shared the Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on antiproton.
From 1943 to 1946, Segr worked as a group leader on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. In his 1970 book about Fermi, Segr recalled a crucial atomic test in the New Mexico desert: "In a fraction of a second, at our distance, one received enough light to produce a sunburn. I was near Fermi at the time of the explosion, but I do not remember what we said, if anything. I believed that for a moment I thought the explosion might set fire to the atmosphere and thus finish the earth, even though I knew that this was not possible."
It always seems an opportunity that should not be missed when a major participant in the world of science takes the time and makes the effort to write about his field for a general audience. At Dover we were very pleased to acquire from Emilio Segr's heirs the rights to publish his outstanding two-volume history of physics written for the general reader and historian of science: From Falling Bodies to Radio Waves: Classical Physicists and Their Discoveries and From X-Rays to Quarks: Modern Physicists and Their Discoveries, both reprinted by Dover in 2007.

Type
BOOK

Edition
Dover Edition

Keyword Index
Physics - History.|Physicists - Biography.

Country of Publication
New York (State)

Number of Pages
320

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