Autor: W.R. Shea

This collection of essays is a tribute to Stillman Drake by some of his friends and colleagues, and by others on whom his work has had a formative influence. It is difficult to know him without succu …

These remarks preface two volumes consisting of the proceedings of the Third International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science of the International Union of History and Philosophy of …

and less as the emanation unden/’ent radioactive decay, and it became motion- less after about 30 seconds. Since this process was occurring very rapidly, Hahn and Sackur marked the position of the po …