Mr Tompkins Learns The Facts Of Life
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Author | : George Gamow |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 2011-06-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1107402077 |
One of the reincarnations of the Mr Tompkins series since the death of the author in 1968, in which Mr Tompkins visits a biologist.
Author | : George Gamow |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2012-03-26 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1107604680 |
Since his first appearance over sixty years ago, Mr Tompkins has become known and loved by many readers as the bank clerk whose fantastic dreams lead him into a world inside the atom. This classic provides a delightful explanation of the central concepts in physics, from atomic structure to relativity.
Author | : David McKitterick |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 9780521308038 |
The third and final volume of A History of Cambridge University Press, covering 1873-1972.
Author | : Nasser Zakariya |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 563 |
Release | : 2017-11-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022647612X |
Towards a Final Story is the first history of the modern scientific epic. These epic stories pull together our knowledge of the universe, uniting material and biological origins, from beginning to end. The authors of these epics--among them Carl Sagan, E.O. Wilson, and Steven Weinberg--saw their task as providing an integrated schema that would not only bring together but also go beyond the particular scientific results and disciplines available as they wrote their histories. Nasser Zakariya traces how such epic stories could achieve what they claimed, how they inhabit culture and politics, and how they arrived at the present moment from a period in the previous century when inquiries into ultimate origins were regarded by many as unscientific and unanswerable. These prominent, popular historical narratives of science are important forms of knowledge in their own right. They expose what science means in the wider culture and at the same time focus attention on the near paradoxical nature of a universal history narrated by humanity for humanity.
Author | : R. Reginald |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 802 |
Release | : 2010-09-01 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 0941028763 |
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.
Author | : Joshi |
Publisher | : Pearson Education India |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9788131729366 |
This book is designed as per the new Curriculum conceived for the students of B.Sc. (Physics). Although the approach is primarily qualitative, a reasonably large number of illustrative examples and segregated exercises are included, wherever possible, to ensure that the students develop a taste of real rigour of physics.
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Publisher | : princeton alumni weekly |
Total Pages | : 1046 |
Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : Brian M. Stableford |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780810849389 |
This reference tracks the development of speculative fiction influenced by the advancement of science and the idea of progress from the eighteenth century to the present day. The major authors and publications of the genre and significant subgenres are covered. Additionally there are entries on fields of science and technology which have been particularly prolific in provoking such speculation. The list of acronyms and abbreviations, the chronology covering the literature from the 1700s through the present, the introductory essay, and the dictionary entries provide science fiction novices and enthusiasts as well as serious writers and critics with a wonderful foundation for understanding the realm of science fiction literature. The extensive bibliography that includes books, journals, fanzines, and websites demonstrates that science fiction literature commands a massive following.
Author | : Alessandro Bottino |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2022-03-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9811242321 |
This book tells the incredible story of George Gamow, one of the most brilliant and extravagant physicists of the past century. Gamow was born in Russia in 1904 and died in the USA in 1968. He lived his life in a time between the twenties and the sixties, characterized by rapid developments in physics and became a key figure of that time. Gamow's true merits were seldom fully recognized. Yet his ideas are behind a number of Nobel Prizes for Physics during the past century. His remarkable achievements in Nuclear Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology were the result of a combination of expertise and creativity, intuition and, importantly, of a good sense of humor. Together they craft the image of a true revolutionary scientist. Gamow also had a natural talent for popularization and was throughout his life a successful science communicator.The figure of Gamow is interesting also from a cultural perspective. His life stretches across a critical period in our history and moves geographically from Russia to the USA, via Europe. His story provides insights into the complex dialogue between historical events and scientific developments during the twentieth century.Our book builds on the extensive interview that science historian Charles Weiner did with Gamow shortly before his death. Here Gamow offers a complete survey of his scientific achievements. Tapping onto their dialogue, we have enriched the picture of Gamow's figure with materials gathered also from other sources. First of all, we discuss his autobiography, in which Gamow mainly focuses on the education he received in Russia and on his experience as a young scientist in Europe. We contrast this with relevant writings about his, at times, controversial role in the scientific environment of his epoch. Altogether, these form a critical and complex representation of the life and character of this extraordinary scientist and human being.Related Link(s)
Author | : George Gamow |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2012-05-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0486135160 |
Lucid, accessible introduction to the influential theory of energy and matter features careful explanations of Dirac's anti-particles, Bohr's model of the atom, and much more. Numerous drawings. 1966 edition.