Advancing the Fundamental Sciences
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Total Pages | : 312 |
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Author | : Michael J. Furniss |
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Total Pages | : 577 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Earth sciences |
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Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Forests and forestry |
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Total Pages | : 904 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : Science |
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Author | : M. Anson |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 1844 |
Release | : 2002-11-14 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0080526632 |
This set of proceedings is based on the International Conference on Advances in Building Technology in Hong Kong on 4-6 December 2002. The two volumes of proceedings contain 9 invited keynote papers, 72 papers delivered by 11 teams , and 133 contributed papers from over 20 countries around the world. The papers cover a wide spectrum of topics across the three technology sub-themes of structures and construction, environment, and information technology. The variety within these categories spans a width of topics, and these proceedings provide readers with a good general overview of recent advances in building research.
Author | : National Institutes of Health (U.S.) |
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Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Science and state |
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Author | : National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Committee on Staff-Training-Extramural Programs |
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Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Federal aid |
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Author | : Henry Asbury Christian |
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Total Pages | : 996 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Clinical medicine |
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Author | : Alladi Krishnaswami |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 2019-03-12 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9811202893 |
This is a kaleidoscopic account of the remarkable life story of Alladi Ramakrishnan (1923-2008), an internationally reputed physicist, and the son of Sir Alladi Krishnaswami Iyer (1883-1953), one of India's most eminent jurists.Part I of the autobiography gives a fascinating account his early life in Madras, India during the last decades of British colonial rule, and the leading role played by Sir Alladi in drafting the Constitution of India. Then follows the incredible saga of his creation of MATSCIENCE, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, in Madras, inspired by his visit to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the result of a Theoretical Physics Seminar which he organized in his family home Ekamra Nivas in Madras, which received the endorsement of Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr, and the support of India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.Part II covers the period of Ramakrishnan's term as Director of MATSCIENCE, and his visits to about 200 centres of learning the world over, where he interacted with leading scientists and lectured on his research in the fields of Probability, Stochastic Processes, Elementary Particle Physics, Matrix Theory, and on his novel treatment of Einstein's Special Relativity. Historical photos, letters, and documents of special interest are included.
Author | : Roger L. Geiger |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2017-09-29 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1351471821 |
American research universities are part of the foundation for the supremacy of American science. Although they emerged as universities in the late nineteenth century, the incorporation of research as a distinct part of their mission largely occurred after 1900. To Advance Knowledge relates how these institutions, by 1940, advanced from provincial outposts in the world of knowledge to leaders in critical areas of science. This study is the first to systematically examine the preconditions for the development of a university research role. These include the formation of academic disciplines--communities that sponsored associations and journals, which defined and advanced fields of knowledge. Only a few universities were able to engage in these activities. Indeed, universities before World War I struggled to find the means to support their own research through endowments, research funds, and faculty time. To Advance Knowledge shows how these institutions developed the size and wealth to harbor a learned faculty. The book illustrates how arrangements for research changed markedly in the 1920s when the great foundations established from the Rockefeller and Carnegie fortunes embraced the advancement of knowledge as a goal. Universities emerged in this decade as the best-suited vessels to carry this mission. Foundation resources made possible the development of an American social science. In the natural sciences, this patronage allowed the United States to gain parity with Europe on scientific frontiers, of which the most important was undoubtedly nuclear physics. The research role of universities cannot be isolated from the institutions themselves. To Advance Knowledge focuses on sixteen universities that were significantly engaged with research during this era. It analyzes all facets of these institutions--collegiate life, sources of funding, treatment of faculty--since all were relevant to shaping the research role.