Under The Spell Of Landau When Theoretical Physics Was Shaping Destinies
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Under The Spell Of Landau When Theoretical Physics Was Shaping Destinies
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Author : Misha Shifman
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2013-06-12
Under The Spell Of Landau When Theoretical Physics Was Shaping Destinies written by Misha Shifman and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-12 with Science categories.
This invaluable collection of memoirs and reviews on scientific activities of the most prominent theoretical physicists belonging to the Landau School — Landau, Migdal, Zeldovich, Smorodinsky, Ter-Martirosyan, Kirzhnits, Gribov, Larkin and Anselm — are being published in English for the first time.The main goal is to acquaint readers with the life and work of outstanding Soviet physicists who, to a large extent, shaped theoretical physics in the 1950s-70s. Many intriguing details have remained unknown beyond the “Iron Curtain” which was dismantled only with the fall of the USSR.
A Mind Over Matter
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Author : Andrew Zangwill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
A Mind Over Matter written by Andrew Zangwill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A Mind Over Matter is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist, Philip W. Anderson. Anderson is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential physicists of the second half of the twentieth century. Unlike the physicists who appear on television or write popular books, Anderson studied the physics of the very many, i.e., the science of how vast numbers of atoms conspire together to create everything from liquid water to sparkling diamonds, and from semiconductors (essential for cell phones and computers) to superconductors (essential for MRI machines). More than any other single person, Anderson transformed the patchwork field of solid-state physics into the intellectually coherent discipline now called condensed matter physics. He developed important concepts that transcended physics, and influenced the scientifically literate public through his essays and articles. Book jacket.
Physics In A Mad World
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Author : Misha Shifman
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2015-08-28
Physics In A Mad World written by Misha Shifman and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-28 with Science categories.
This book tells captivating stories of misadventures of two renowned theoretical physicists in the Soviet Union. The first part is devoted to Friedrich (Fritz) Houtermans, an outstanding Dutch-Austrian-German physicist who was the first to suggest that the source of stars' energy is thermonuclear fusion, and also made a number of other important contributions to cosmochemistry and geochemistry. In 1935, Houtermans, a German communist, in an attempt to save his life from Hilter's Gestapo, fled to the Soviet Union. He took up an appointment at the Kharkov Physico-Technical Institute, working there for two years with the Russian physicist Valentin P Fomin. In the Great Purge of 1937, Houtermans was arrested in December by the NKVD (Soviet Secret Police, KGB's predecessor). He was tortured, and confessed to being a Trotskyist plotter and German spy, out of fear of threats against his wife Charlotte. However, Charlotte had already escaped from the Soviet Union to Denmark, after which she went to England and finally the USA. As a result of the Hilter-Stalin Pact of 1939, Houtermans was turned over to the Gestapo in May 1940 and imprisoned in Berlin.The second part consists of two essays that narrate the life story of Yuri Golfand, one of the codiscoverers of supersymmetry, a major discovery in theoretical physics in the 20th century. In 1973, just two years after the publication of his seminal paper, he was fired from the Lebedev Physics Institute in Moscow. Because of his Jewish origin he could find no job. Under such circumstances, he applied for an exit visa to Israel, but his application was denied. Yuri Golfand became a refusnik and joined the Human rights movement, along with two other prominent physicists, Andrei Sakharov and Yuri Orlov. To earn his living, he had to do manual work, repeatedly being intimidated by KGB. Only 18 years later, shortly before the demise of the Soviet Union, did he obtain permission to leave the country, emigrating to Israel in 1990.These personal life stories of two outstanding theorists are interwined with the tragedies of the 20th century and make for compelling reading.
Thriving Professor The A Guide To A Career In Universities And Colleges
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Author : Martin H Krieger
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2018-08-24
Thriving Professor The A Guide To A Career In Universities And Colleges written by Martin H Krieger and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-24 with Education categories.
In this book, Martin Krieger provides a detailed and practical guide for readers who wish to become more effective scholars, teachers, and administrators. The Thriving Professor dispenses usable insights that smooth the passages through promotion and tenure, and enable the scholar to write and publish more effectively as well as to avoid traps along the way.This work is helpful to those manoeuvring through academic difficulties. It offers essential advice to professors at every stage in their careers to move forward, and takes much of the myth out of the academic life. The Thriving Professor is the friendly mentor everyone wishes for. Krieger says out loud what others hint at, and is non-judgmental.
Standing Together In Troubled Times Unpublished Letters Of Pauli Einstein Franck And Others
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Author : Misha Shifman
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2017-01-16
Standing Together In Troubled Times Unpublished Letters Of Pauli Einstein Franck And Others written by Misha Shifman and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-16 with Science categories.
This captivating book is a story of the friendship between a genius physicist Wolfgang Pauli and Charlotte Houtermans whose career in physics was not as glamorous. They met in the late 1920s in Germany, at the very onset of the quantum era and personally knew all the major players in the emergent quantum world that was very much part of central Europe: Germany, Austria, Hungary, Denmark and Switzerland. And Charlotte was a student at Göttingen that was right at the heart.Caught between two evils — Soviet Communism and German National Socialism — she would have probably perished if it were not for the brotherhood of physicists: Niels Bohr, Wolfgang Pauli, Albert Einstein, James Franck, Max Born, Robert Oppenheimer and many other noted scientists who tried to save friends and colleagues (either leftist sympathizers or Jews) who were in mortal danger of being entrapped in a simmering pre-WWII Europe.Using newly discovered documents from the Houtermans family archive: twenty three Pauli's letters to Charlotte Houtermans, her correspondence with other great physicists, Charlotte's diaries, interviews with her children, almost all documents presented in this book are published for the first time.
Cern Courier
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Cern Courier written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Nuclear energy categories.
Matvei Petrovich Bronstein
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Author : Gennady Gorelik
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2011-09-15
Matvei Petrovich Bronstein written by Gennady Gorelik and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-15 with Mathematics categories.
The true history of physics can only be read in the life stories of those who made its progress possible. Matvei Bronstein was one of those for whom the vast territory of theoretical physics was as familiar as his own home: he worked in cosmology, nuclear physics, gravitation, semiconductors, atmospheric physics, quantum electrodynamics, astro physics and the relativistic quantum theory. Everyone who knew him was struck by his wide knowledge, far beyond the limits of his trade. This partly explains why his life was closely intertwined with the social, historical and scientific context of his time. One might doubt that during his short life Bronstein could have made truly weighty contributions to science and have become, in a sense, a symbol of his time. Unlike mathematicians and poets, physicists reach the peak of their careers after the age of thirty. His thirty years of life, however, proved enough to secure him a place in the Greater Soviet Encyclopedia. In 1967, in describing the first generation of physicists educated after the 1917 revolution, Igor Tamm referred to Bronstein as "an exceptionally brilliant and promising" theoretician [268].
Condensed Matter Field Theory
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Author : Alexander Altland
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-03-11
Condensed Matter Field Theory written by Alexander Altland and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-11 with Science categories.
This primer is aimed at elevating graduate students of condensed matter theory to a level where they can engage in independent research. Topics covered include second quantisation, path and functional field integration, mean-field theory and collective phenomena.
Holographic Duality In Condensed Matter Physics
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Author : Jan Zaanen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-11-05
Holographic Duality In Condensed Matter Physics written by Jan Zaanen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-05 with Science categories.
A pioneering treatise presenting how the mathematical techniques of holographic duality can unify the fundamental theories of physics.
Quantum Un Speakables
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Author : R.A. Bertlmann
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2002-07-27
Quantum Un Speakables written by R.A. Bertlmann and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-27 with Computers categories.
This outstanding collection of essays in commemoration of John S. Bell is the result of the "Quantum (Un)speakables" conference organised by the University of Vienna. The title was taken from a famous note written by John Bell during the "Schrödinger Symposium" of 1987. The book leads the reader from the foundations of quantum mechanics to quantum entanglement, quantum cryptography, and quantum information, and is written for all those who need more insight into this new area of physics.