Alfred Scharff Goldhaber is a professor of physics at Stony Brook University whose research ranges from elementary particles to cosmology. He also teaches an unorthodox course that introduces quantum mechanics by way of optics.
15 Ebooks bởi Robert P. Crease
Jan Kyrre Berg Friis & Chairman of the department of philosophy, Stony Brook Uni Robert P. Crease: Technoscience and Postphenomenology
Friis and Crease capture Postphenomenology, a new field that has attracted attention among scholars engaged in technology studies. Contributors to this edited collection seek to analyze, clarify, and …
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the late Abraham Pais: J. Robert Oppenheimer
The late Abraham Pais, author of the award winning biography of Albert Einstein, Subtle is the Lord, here offers an illuminating portrait of another of his eminent colleagues, J. Robert Oppenheimer, …
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the late Abraham Pais: J. Robert Oppenheimer
The late Abraham Pais, author of the award winning biography of Albert Einstein, Subtle is the Lord, here offers an illuminating portrait of another of his eminent colleagues, J. Robert Oppenheimer, …
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€28.24
Robert P. Crease & Alfred Scharff Goldhaber: The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty
‘A very fun way to learn about where quantum physics comes from and the strange, even astonishing places it has gone.’ —Peter Galison, Harvard University, author of Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps …
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€21.99
Robert P. Crease: The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg
‘Any reader who aspires to be scientifically literate will find this a good starting place.’ —Publishers Weekly While we may be familiar with some of science’s greatest equations, we may not know tha …
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€15.99
Robert P. Crease: The Workshop and the World: What Ten Thinkers Can Teach Us About Science and Authority
A fascinating look at key thinkers throughout history who have shaped public perception of science and the role of authority. When does a scientific discovery become accepted fact? Why have scientifi …
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€25.99
Samantha J. Fried & Robert Rosenberger: Postphenomenology and Imaging
How should we understand the experience of encountering and interpreting images? What are their roles in science and medicine? How do they shape everyday life? Postphenomenology and Imaging: How to R …
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€45.05
Sherry Turkle: Evocative Objects
Autobiographical essays, framed by two interpretive essays by the editor, describe the power of an object to evoke emotion and provoke thought: reflections on a cello, a laptop computer, a 1964 Ford …
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€76.83
Robert P. Crease: World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement
“Shows that the story of metrology . . . can in the right hands make for a riveting read.”—The Economist Millions of transactions each day depend on a reliable network of weights and measures. But ac …
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€23.99
Robert P. Crease: Leak
How the discovery of a harmless leak of radiation sparked a media firestorm, political grandstanding, and fearmongering that closed a vital scientific facility.In 1997, scientists at Brookhaven Natio …
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€77.39
Robert P Crease: Philosophy of Physics
This book is about the ways that philosophers inquire into science. They do so with several different approaches, which this book parses into three. One analyzes the results of inquiry, another the p …
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€31.99
Robert P Crease: BETWEEN SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY
Materials science institutions have always been crucial to the development of materials research. Even before materials science emerged as a discipline in the 20th century, these institutions existed …
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€159.99
John H. Marburger III: Science Policy Up Close
In a career that included tenures as president of Stony Brook University, director of Brookhaven National Laboratory, and science advisor to President George W. Bush, John Marburger (1941-2011) found …
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