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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Calvi, Scott (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2017]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 3.
IOP concise physics.
Temas:
Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia, > 1900-1979.
Meitner, Lise, > 1878-1968.
Wu, C. S. > (Chien-shiung), > 1912-1997.
Mayer, Maria Goeppert, > 1906-1972.
Women physicists > Biography.
Physics.
General & Introductory Physics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Why am I writing this book?
  • 1.2. An essential tension
  • 1.3. A few words on names
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.

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