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Beyond Curie : four women in physics and their remarkable discoveries, 1903 to 1963 /
In the 116 year history of the Nobel Prize in Physics, only two women have won the award; Marie Curie (1903) and Maria Mayer (1963). During the 60 years between those awards, several women did work of similar calibre. This book focuses on those women, providing biographies for each that discuss both...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) :
Morgan & Claypool Publishers,
[2017]
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| Colección: | IOP (Series). Release 3.
IOP concise physics. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 500 | |a "Version: 20170701"--Title page verso. | ||
| 500 | |a "A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Why am I writing this book? -- 1.2. An essential tension -- 1.3. A few words on names | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 2. Cecilia Payne -- 2.1. Beyond Curie -- 2.2. No insuperable objections -- 2.3. The Harvard Computers -- 2.4. Starstuff -- 2.5. Two astronomers from Cambridge -- 2.6. Reactions -- 2.7. Blocked paths -- 2.8. Love (of science) levels all ranks -- 2.9. Science summary : stellar spectra | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 3. Lise Meitner -- 3.1. Making up for lost time -- 3.2. Questions of credit -- 3.3. A scientific powerhouse -- 3.4. Tumult -- 3.5. How Nobel Prizes are selected -- 3.6. Beyond uranium -- 3.7. The breakdown of science -- 3.8. Our Madame Curie -- 3.9. Science summary : nuclear fission | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 4. Chien-Shiung Wu -- 4.1. Mighty hero -- 4.2. Exile -- 4.3. Pushing back -- 4.4. Rising through the ranks -- 4.5. 'Wasting her time' -- 4.6. Instant Nobel -- 4.7. Honors -- 4.8. Science summary : parity | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 5. Maria Mayer -- 5.1. The seventh generation -- 5.2. From nuisance to necessary -- 5.3. A new era -- 5.4. Magic -- 5.5. A different way to win a race -- 5.6. Quarter loafs -- 5.7. A typical genius -- 5.8. Science summary : nuclear shell model -- 6. Afterword. | |
| 520 | 3 | |a In the 116 year history of the Nobel Prize in Physics, only two women have won the award; Marie Curie (1903) and Maria Mayer (1963). During the 60 years between those awards, several women did work of similar calibre. This book focuses on those women, providing biographies for each that discuss both how they made their discoveries and the gender-specific reception of those discoveries. It also discusses the Nobel process and how society and the scientific community's treatment of them were influenced by their gender. | |
| 521 | |a General readership, history of science, women in science and physics. | ||
| 530 | |a Also available in print. | ||
| 538 | |a Mode of access: World Wide Web. | ||
| 538 | |a System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader. | ||
| 545 | |a Scott Calvin received his PhD in chemical physics from the City University of New York. He has taught, conducted research, and advised students in a wide variety of institutions including the Naval Research Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Hayden Planetarium, Sarah Lawrence College and several others. He is the author of We Can Do It! A Problem Solving Graphic Novel Guide for General Physics, and open source artisanal pop-up book National Synchroton Light Source II: Long Island's State of the Art X-Ray Microscope. | ||
| 588 | |a Title from PDF title page (viewed on August 14, 2017). | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia, |d 1900-1979. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Meitner, Lise, |d 1878-1968. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Wu, C. S. |q (Chien-shiung), |d 1912-1997. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Mayer, Maria Goeppert, |d 1906-1972. |
| 650 | 0 | |a Women physicists |v Biography. | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a General & Introductory Physics. |2 bisacsh | |
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