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Legends in Their Own Time

A Century of American Physical Scientists

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  • © 1993

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  1. Anthony Serafini
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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Astronomy and the Harvard Observatory

    • Anthony Serafini
    Pages 1-20

  3. Henry Rowland and Electricity

    • Anthony Serafini
    Pages 21-31

  4. J. Willard Gibbs and the Origins of Physical Chemistry

    • Anthony Serafini
    Pages 33-53

  5. A. A. Michelson and the Ether

    • Anthony Serafini
    Pages 55-78

  6. R. A. Millikan and the Maturity of American Science

    • Anthony Serafini
    Pages 79-98

  7. The Growth of American Astronomy

    • Anthony Serafini
    Pages 99-115

  8. Irving Langmuir and the General Electric Laboratories

    • Anthony Serafini
    Pages 117-132

  9. Linus Pauling and American Quantum Chemistry

    • Anthony Serafini
    Pages 133-144

  10. Arthur Compton and “Compton Scattering”

    • Anthony Serafini
    Pages 145-169

  11. Davisson and Germer and Quantum Physics

    • Anthony Serafini
    Pages 171-177

  12. E. O. Lawrence and Nuclear Research

    • Anthony Serafini
    Pages 179-197

  13. Carl Anderson and Antimatter

    • Anthony Serafini
    Pages 199-215

  14. Hans Bethe and Energy in the Sun

    • Anthony Serafini
    Pages 217-231

  15. The Manhattan Project: Witness to the Atomic Age

    • Anthony Serafini
    Pages 233-243

  16. The Myth of Symmetry: Yang and Lee

    • Anthony Serafini
    Pages 245-255

  17. The Emergence of Solid-State Physics

    • Anthony Serafini
    Pages 257-276

  18. Murray Gell-Mann and More Particles: Forces within the Nucleus

    • Anthony Serafini
    Pages 277-295

  19. Richard Feynman and Quantum Electrodynamics

    • Anthony Serafini
    Pages 297-314

  20. Glashow, Weinberg, and the Search for a Unified Field Theory

    • Anthony Serafini
    Pages 315-322
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Legends in Their Own Time

  • Book Subtitle: A Century of American Physical Scientists

  • Authors: Anthony Serafini

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6090-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Anthony Serafini 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-306-44460-9Published: 01 January 1993

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-6090-0Published: 07 October 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 361

  • Topics: Popular Science, general

  • Industry Sectors: Aerospace, IT & Software

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