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This book is about radiation, radioactive decays and some elements of nuclear and particle physics. Einstein’s theory of special relativity is needed for a correct description of some of these phenomena. The word “special” is used to distinguish this part from the theory of general relativity that deals with non-inertial reference frames and with gravity. Some textbooks follow a rather historical, or history-driven, approach to radiation. While this approach would be quite educational, giving a view of how ideas developed almost exactly one hundred years ago, it is probably not the fastest way to explain the fundamental concepts.
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Wolfgang Pauli, (1900–1958) from Austria. He was awarded the Nobel prize in 1945 for his exclusion principle.
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D’Auria, S. (2018). Introduction to Radiation. In: Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93855-4_1
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