Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race (Inbunden)
avGraham Farmelo
ISBN: 9780465021956 - UTGIVEN: 2013-10Perhaps no scientific development has shaped the course of modern history as much as the harnessing of nuclear energy. Yet the twentieth century might have turned out differently had greater influence over this technology been exercised by Great Britain, whose scientists were at the forefront of res[...]
Strangest Man (Häftad)
avGraham Farmelo
ISBN: 9780465022106 - UTGIVEN: 201106Paul Dirac was among the greatest scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of Einsteins most admired colleagues, he helped discover quantum mechanics, and his prediction of antimatter was one of the greatest triumphs in the history of physics. In 1933 he became the youngest theoretician ever to [...]
Strangest Man (Häftad)
avGraham Farmelo
ISBN: 9780571222865 - UTGIVEN: 200912Paul Dirac was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in 20th-century science: quantum mechanics. Based on an archive of family papers, this title celebrates Dirac's massive scientific achievement while drawing a portrait of his life and work.[...]
Churchill's Bomb (Inbunden)
avGraham Farmelo, Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780571249787 - UTGIVEN: 2013-10"Churchill's Bomb" reveals a new aspect of the great Prime Minister's life, so far completely neglected by historians: his relations with his nuclear scientists, and his management of Britain's policy on atomic weapons. Graham Farmelo, the author of the celebrated and prize-winning biography of Paul[...]
Creating Connections (Pocket)
avDavid Chittenden, Graham Farmelo, Bruce V. Lewenstein
ISBN: 9780759104761 - UTGIVEN: 2004-05Creating Connections looks at the public understanding of research (PUR) and how it affects what science museums do. What are the opportunities and critical issues in PUR? What strategies are working and what are some pitfalls? What can be learned from the media's experiences with PUR? Creating Conn[...]
It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science (Häftad)
avGraham Farmelo
ISBN: 9781862075559 - UTGIVEN: 200302Equations lie at the heart of many of the most extraordinarily successful scientific theories. Here, some of the greatest living scientists unpack the best known equations so that they become understandable, and we are entertained and enlightened by a knowledge of how it was arrived at, what it can [...]
