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Enrico Fermi
This biography explores the life and career of the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, which is also the story of thirty years that transformed physics and forever changed our understanding of matter and the universe: nuclear physics and elementary particle physics were born, nuclear fission was discovered, the Manhattan Project was developed, the atomic bombs were dropped, and the era of “big science” began.It would be impossible to capture the full essence of this revolutionary period without first understanding Fermi, without whom it would not have been possible. Enrico Fermi: The Obedient Genius attempts to shed light on all aspects of Fermi’s life - his work, motivation, influences, a...
Nuclear Cultures
Nuclear Cultures: Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity aims to develop the field of nuclear humanities and the powerful ability of literary and cultural representations of science and catastrophe to shape the meaning of historic events. Examining multiple discourses and textual materials, including fiction, poetry, biographies, comics, paintings, documentary and photography, this volume will illuminate the cultural, ecological and social impact of nuclearization narratives. Furthermore, this text explores themes such as the cultures of atomic scientists, the making of the bomb, nuclear bombings and disasters, nuclear aesthetics and art, and the global mobilization against nuclearization. Nuclear Cultures breaks new ground in the debates on "the nuclear" to foster the development of nuclear humanities, its vocabulary and methodology.
The Beginnings of Piezoelectricity
The Beginnings of Piezoelectricity, the first history of the subject, exhaustively examines how diverse influences led to the discovery of the phenomenon in 1880, and how they shaped subsequent research until the consolidation of an empirical and theoretical knowledge of the field circa 1895. Shaul Katzir’s historical account shows that this ‘mundane’ science was an intriguing intellectual and practical enterprise, which involved originality, surprises and controversies.
The Last Man Who Knew Everything
The definitive biography of the brilliant, charismatic, and very human physicist and innovator Enrico Fermi In 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved what no one had before: a nuclear chain reaction. At the forefront of this breakthrough stood Enrico Fermi. Straddling the ages of classical physics and quantum mechanics, equally at ease with theory and experiment, Fermi truly was the last man who knew everything -- at least about physics. But he was also a complex figure who was a part of both the Italian Fascist Party and the Manhattan Project, and a less-than-ideal father and husband who nevertheless remained one of history's greatest mentors. Based on new archival material and exclusive interviews, The Last Man Who Knew Everything lays bare the enigmatic life of a colossus of twentieth century physics.
엔리코 페르미, 모든 것을 알았던 마지막 사람
20세기 물리학의 가장 수수께끼 같은 거인을 새로운 기록 자료와 독점 인터뷰로 만난다! “페르미가 사망한 이후 출간된 전기 중에서 가장 철저하다!” _뉴욕타임스 이탈리아계 미국인 물리학자 엔리코 페르미의 평전. “페르미보다 더 많은 장소와 개념에 이름이 붙은 물리학자는 없다”는 말이 있을 정도로 물리학에서 그의 업적과 유산은 광범위하고 절대적이다. 하지만 페르미에 관한 전기는 많지 않은데, 그가 남긴 기록이 전부 물리학에 관한 것뿐이라 개인적이고 내적인 흔적은 거의 찾아볼 수 없어 전기 작가들이 그의 삶...
2007
Die International Bibliographiy of Historical Sciences verzeichnet jährlich die bedeutendsten Neuerscheinungen geschichtswissenschaftlicher Monographien und Zeitschriftenartikel weltweit, die inhaltlich von der Vor- und Frühgeschichte bis zur jüngsten Vergangenheit reichen. Sie ist damit die derzeit einzige laufende Bibliographie dieser Art, die thematisch, zeitlich und geographisch ein derart breites Spektrum abdeckt. Innerhalb der systematischen Gliederung nach Zeitalter, Region oder historischer Disziplin sind die Werke nach Autorennamen oder charakteristischem Titelhauptwort aufgelistet.
L'alba del Novecento
All'alba del Novecento, durante il ventennio dal 1895 al 1914, in ogni campo del sapere umano si produsse una vera e propria 'rivoluzione culturale'. Nel giro di pochissimi mesi del 1900, ad esempio, si passò dall'inaugurazione della Esposizione Universale di Parigi alla pubblicazione de L'interpretazione dei sogni di Freud o alla teoria dei quanti di Max Planck, fino al Concerto per pianoforte n. 2 di Sergej Rachmaninov. Allo stesso modo, nel 1913, mentre in Europa si scatenava la seconda guerra balcanica, a New Orleans il dodicenne Louis Armstrong già intonava su una tromba i suoi primi temi musicali. Così il tragico naufragio del Titanic – che nell'aprile 1912 già segnava la fine di un'epoca – si collega, quasi magicamente, al cupo incipit de La montagna incantata di Mann, 'il grande poema della morte' iniziato quell'anno. Oppure i colpi di cannone che dettero l'avvio alla prima guerra mondiale rinviano alle riflessioni di Kafka che, proprio nell'agosto1914, iniziava la stesura de Il processo. Una 'nuova storia' della Belle époque che ha l'ambizione di raccontare sincronicamente il terremoto che travolse una cultura e la sostituì con una diversa.
