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Author | : Diana Kormos Barkan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2011-03-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0521176298 |
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A 1999 biography of one of Germany's most important scientists (active 1890-1933) and an historical examination of physics and chemistry.
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Author | : Željko Čupić |
Publisher | : Institut za nuklearne nauke VINČA |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2016-09-08 |
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ISBN | : 8682475332 |
Download PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY 2016 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Patrick Coffey |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2008-08-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780199717460 |
Download Cathedrals of Science Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Cathedrals of Science, Patrick Coffey describes how chemistry got its modern footing-how thirteen brilliant men and one woman struggled with the laws of the universe and with each other. They wanted to discover how the world worked, but they also wanted credit for making those discoveries, and their personalities often affected how that credit was assigned. Gilbert Lewis, for example, could be reclusive and resentful, and his enmity with Walther Nernst may have cost him the Nobel Prize; Irving Langmuir, gregarious and charming, "rediscovered" Lewis's theory of the chemical bond and received much of the credit for it. Langmuir's personality smoothed his path to the Nobel Prize over Lewis. Coffey deals with moral and societal issues as well. These same scientists were the first to be seen by their countries as military assets. Fritz Haber, dubbed the "father of chemical warfare," pioneered the use of poison gas in World War I-vividly described-and Glenn Seaborg and Harold Urey were leaders in World War II's Manhattan Project; Urey and Linus Pauling worked for nuclear disarmament after the war. Science was not always fair, and many were excluded. The Nazis pushed Jewish scientists like Haber from their posts in the 1930s. Anti-Semitism was also a force in American chemistry, and few women were allowed in; Pauling, for example, used his influence to cut off the funding and block the publications of his rival, Dorothy Wrinch. Cathedrals of Science paints a colorful portrait of the building of modern chemistry from the late 19th to the mid-20th century.
Author | : D. Thorburn Burns |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2014-11-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3319121510 |
Download Important Figures of Analytical Chemistry from Germany in Brief Biographies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
More than 80 personalities, in or from Germany, that over the centuries have shaped the development of analytical chemistry are introduced by brief biographies. These accounts go beyond summarising key biographical information and outline the individual's contributions to analytical chemistry. This richly illustrated Brief offers a unique resource of information that is not available elsewhere.
Author | : David C. Lindberg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 714 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9780521571999 |
Download The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 5, The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A new and comprehensive examination of the history of the modern physical and mathematical sciences.
Author | : Joseph Stewart Fruton |
Publisher | : American Philosophical Society |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Chemistry |
ISBN | : 9780871692450 |
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Chemistry as it is known today is deeply rooted in a variety of thought & action, dating back at least as far as the fifth century B.C. In this book, Joseph Fruton weaves together the history of scientific investigation with social, religious, philosophical, & other events & practices that have contributed to the field of modern chemistry. The story begins with the influence of alchemy on early Greek numerology and philosophy, followed by the historical account of chemical composition and phlogiston. The life and work of Antoine Lavoisier receive extensive coverage in Chapter Three, with the remaining six chapters devoted to atoms, equivalents, and elements; radicals and types; valence and molectualr structure; stereochemistry and organic synthesis; forces, equilibria, and rates; and electrons, reaction mechanisms, and organic synthesis.
Author | : Kris Manjapra |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 2014-01-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674726316 |
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Age of Entanglement explores the patterns of connection linking German and Indian intellectuals from the nineteenth century to the years after the Second World War. Kris Manjapra traces the intersecting ideas and careers of philologists, physicists, poets, economists, and others who shared ideas, formed networks, and studied one another's worlds. Moving beyond well-rehearsed critiques of colonialism, this study recasts modern intellectual history in terms of the knotted intellectual itineraries of seeming strangers. Collaborations in the sciences, arts, and humanities produced extraordinary meetings of German and Indian minds. Meghnad Saha met Albert Einstein, Stella Kramrisch brought the Bauhaus to Calcutta, and Girindrasekhar Bose began a correspondence with Sigmund Freud. Rabindranath Tagore traveled to Germany to recruit scholars for a new university, and Himanshu Rai worked with Franz Osten to establish movie studios in Bombay. These interactions, Manjapra argues, evinced shared responses to the hegemony of the British empire. Germans and Indians hoped to find in one another the tools needed to disrupt an Anglocentric world order. As Manjapra demonstrates, transnational encounters are not inherently progressive. From Orientalism to Aryanism to scientism, German-Indian entanglements were neither necessarily liberal nor conventionally cosmopolitan, often characterized as much by manipulation as by genuine cooperation.
Author | : Gustavo E. Romero |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2022-06-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3030894886 |
Download Contemporary Materialism: Its Ontology and Epistemology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book provides an up-to-date revision of materialism’s central tenets, its main varieties, and the place of materialistic philosophy vis a vis scientific knowledge. Materialism has been the subject of extensive and rich controversies since Robert Boyle introduced the term for the first time in the 17th century. But what is materialism and what can it offer today? The term is usually defined as the worldview according to which everything real is material. Nevertheless, there is no philosophical consensus about whether the meaning of matter can be enlarged beyond the physical. As a consequence, materialism is often defined in stark exclusive and reductionist terms: whatever exists is either physical or ontologically reducible to it. This conception, if consistent, mutilates reality, excluding the ontological significance of political, economic, sociocultural, anthropological and psychological realities. Starting from a new history of materialism, the present book focuses on the central ontological and epistemological debates aroused by today’s leading materialist approaches, including some little known to an anglophone readership. The key concepts of matter, system, emergence, space and time, life, mind, and software are checked over and updated. Controversial issues such as the nature of mathematics and the place of reductionism are also discussed from different materialist approaches. As a result, materialism emerges as a powerful, indispensable scientifically-supported worldview with a surprising wealth of nuances and possibilities.
Author | : Helge S. Kragh |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 2014-05-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3642550908 |
Download The Weight of the Vacuum Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery of cosmic acceleration due to dark energy, a discovery that is all the more perplexing as nobody knows what dark energy actually is. We put the modern concept of cosmological vacuum energy into historical context and show how it grew out of disparate roots in quantum mechanics (zero-point energy) and relativity theory (the cosmological constant, Einstein's “greatest blunder”). These two influences have remained strangely aloof and still co-exist in an uneasy alliance that is at the heart of the greatest crisis in theoretical physics, the cosmological-constant problem.