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Advances in Nuclear Physics
ADVANCES IN NUCLEAR PHYSICS VOLUME 27 CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME Stefan Scherer Igal Talmi Institut für Kernphysik The Weizmann Institute of Science Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Rehovot, Israel Mainz, Germany A Continuation Order Plan is available for this series. A continuation order will bring delivery of each new volume immediately upon publication. Volumes are billed only upon actual shipment. For further information please contact the publisher. ADVANCES IN NUCLEAR PHYSICS Edited by J. W. Negele Center for Theoretical Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts E. W. Vogt Department of Physics University of British Columbia Vancouver, B.C., Canada VOLUME 27 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS NEW YORK, BOSTON, DORDRECHT, LONDON, MOSCOW eBook ISBN: 0-306-47916-8 Print ISBN: 0-306-47708-4 ©2002 Kluwer Academic Publishers New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow Print ©2003 Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers New York All rights reserved No part of this eBook may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise, without written consent from the Publisher Created in the United States of America Visit Kluwer Online at: http://kluweronline.com and Kluwer's eBookstore at: http://ebooks.kluweronline.com ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN EARLIER VOLUMES Volume 1 The Reorientation Effect • J. de Boer and J. Eicher The Nuclear Model • M. Harvey The Hartree-Fock Theory of Deformed Light Nuclei • G. Ripka The Statistical Theory of Nuclear Reactions • E. Vogt Three-Particle Scattering—A Review of Recent Work on the Nonrelativistic Theory • I. Duck Volume 2 The Giant Dipole Resonance • B. M. Spicer Polarization Phenomena in Nuclear Reactions • C. -
Physics Nobel Prize 1975
Physics Nobel Prize 1975 Nobel prize winners, left to right, A. Bohr, B. Mottelson and J. Rainwater. 0. Kofoed-Hansen (Photos Keystone Press, Photopress) Before 1949 every physicist knew that mooted, it was a major breakthrough from 1943-45. From December 1943 the atomic nucleus does not rotate. in thinking about the nucleus and he was actually in the USA. Back in The reasoning behind this erroneous opened a whole new field of research Denmark after the war, he obtained belief came from the following argu• in nuclear physics. This work has for his Ph. D. in 1954 for work on rota• ments. A quantum-mechanical rotator years been guided by the inspiration tional states in atomic nuclei. His with the moment of inertia J can take of Bohr and Mottelson. thesis was thus based on the work for up various energy levels with rota• An entire industry of nuclear which he has now been recognized at tional energies equal to h2(l + 1)| research thus began with Rainwater's the very highest level. He is Professor /8TC2J, where h is Planck's constant brief contribution to Physical Review at the Niels Bohr Institute of the ^nd I is the spin. As an example, I may in 1950 entitled 'Nuclear energy level University of Copenhagen and a nave values 0, 2, 4, ... etc. If the argument for a spheroidal nuclear member of the CERN Scientific Policy nucleus is considered as a rigid body, model'. Today a fair-sized library is Committee. then the moment of inertia J is very needed in order to contain all the Ben Mottelson was born in the USA large and the rotational energies papers written on deformed nuclei and in 1926 and has, for many years, become correspondingly very small. -
Appendix E Nobel Prizes in Nuclear Science
Nuclear Science—A Guide to the Nuclear Science Wall Chart ©2018 Contemporary Physics Education Project (CPEP) Appendix E Nobel Prizes in Nuclear Science Many Nobel Prizes have been awarded for nuclear research and instrumentation. The field has spun off: particle physics, nuclear astrophysics, nuclear power reactors, nuclear medicine, and nuclear weapons. Understanding how the nucleus works and applying that knowledge to technology has been one of the most significant accomplishments of twentieth century scientific research. Each prize was awarded for physics unless otherwise noted. Name(s) Discovery Year Henri Becquerel, Pierre Discovered spontaneous radioactivity 1903 Curie, and Marie Curie Ernest Rutherford Work on the disintegration of the elements and 1908 chemistry of radioactive elements (chem) Marie Curie Discovery of radium and polonium 1911 (chem) Frederick Soddy Work on chemistry of radioactive substances 1921 including the origin and nature of radioactive (chem) isotopes Francis Aston Discovery of isotopes in many non-radioactive 1922 elements, also enunciated the whole-number rule of (chem) atomic masses Charles Wilson Development of the cloud chamber for detecting 1927 charged particles Harold Urey Discovery of heavy hydrogen (deuterium) 1934 (chem) Frederic Joliot and Synthesis of several new radioactive elements 1935 Irene Joliot-Curie (chem) James Chadwick Discovery of the neutron 1935 Carl David Anderson Discovery of the positron 1936 Enrico Fermi New radioactive elements produced by neutron 1938 irradiation Ernest Lawrence -
APS Announces Spring 2000 Prize and Award Recipients
Spring 2000 APS AnnouncesPrizes Spring 2000and Prize andAwards Award Recipients wenty-nine APS prizes and awards collaborates with many biologists, espe- was a postdoctoral fel- 2000 DAVISSON-GERMER PRIZE will be presented during special cially his wife of 30 years, Helen, a low at Cambridge T IN ATOMIC OR SURFACE biochemist. His group now has prototypes University (England) sessions at three spring meetings of the PHYSICS Society: the 2000 March Meeting, for a new generation of AFMs that can use in 1959-60, joined the cantilevers on order of magnitude smaller technical staff of the March 20-24, in Minneapolis, MN; the William Happer than used in current commercial AFMs. Bell Telephone Labora- 2000 April Meeting, April 29 - May 2, Princeton University tories in 1960, and the in Long Beach, CA; and the spring Citation: “For his research leading to fun- physics faculty at Ber- meeting of the APS Division of 2000 OLIVER E. BUCKLEY PRIZE keley in 1966. He has been a visiting Atomic, Molecular and Optical Phys- damental understanding and applications of atomic processes on spin or excitation scientist at Cambridge University, the Max ics, June 14 - 17, in Storrs, CT. Citations Gerald J. Dolan transfer through atomic collisions.” Planck Institutes for Solid State Physics at and biographical information for each Private Consultant Stuttgart and Radio Astronomy at Bonn, recipient follow. Additional biographi- Happer received his the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, the cal information and appropriate Web Theodore A. Fulton PhD degree in physics Paris Observatory, and the University of links can be found at the APS Web site Lucent Technologies from Princeton Uni- Rome. -
Revue Européenne Des Sciences Sociales, XL-124
Revue européenne des sciences sociales European Journal of Social Sciences XL-124 | 2002 Histoire, philosophie et sociologie des sciences Pour un état des lieux des rapports établis et des problèmes ouverts. XIXe colloque annuel du Groupe d’Étude « Pratiques Sociales et Théories » Gérald Berthoud et Giovanni Busino (dir.) Édition électronique URL : http://journals.openedition.org/ress/568 DOI : 10.4000/ress.568 ISSN : 1663-4446 Éditeur Librairie Droz Édition imprimée Date de publication : 1 août 2002 ISBN : 2-600-00806-3 ISSN : 0048-8046 Référence électronique Gérald Berthoud et Giovanni Busino (dir.), Revue européenne des sciences sociales, XL-124 | 2002, « Histoire, philosophie et sociologie des sciences » [En ligne], mis en ligne le 01 décembre 2009, consulté le 04 décembre 2020. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/ress/568 ; DOI : https://doi.org/ 10.4000/ress.568 Ce document a été généré automatiquement le 4 décembre 2020. © Librairie Droz 1 Actes édités par Gérald Berthoud et Giovanni Busino avec la collaboration rédactionnelle de Daniela Cerqui, Farinaz Fassa, Sabine Kradolfer, Frédéric Ischy et Olivier Simoni Revue européenne des sciences sociales, XL-124 | 2002 2 SOMMAIRE Avant-propos La connaissance a-t-elle un sujet ? Un essai pour repenser l’individu Catherine Chevalley Normes, communauté et intentionnalité Pierre Jacob Un modèle polyphonique en épistémologie sociale Croyances individuelles, pluralité des voix et consensus en matière scientifique39-58 Alban Bouvier La question du réalisme scientifique : un problème épistémologique central Angèle Kremer Marietti Objectivité et subjectivité en science. Quelques aperçus Jacqueline Feldman La notion de révolution scientifique aujourd’hui Gérard Jorland Hétérogénéité ontologique du social et théorie de la description. -
Heisenberg's Visit to Niels Bohr in 1941 and the Bohr Letters
Klaus Gottstein Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) Föhringer Ring 6 D-80805 Munich, Germany 26 February, 2002 New insights? Heisenberg’s visit to Niels Bohr in 1941 and the Bohr letters1 The documents recently released by the Niels Bohr Archive do not, in an unambiguous way, solve the enigma of what happened during the critical brief discussion between Bohr and Heisenberg in 1941 which so upset Bohr and made Heisenberg so desperate. But they are interesting, they show what Bohr remembered 15 years later. What Heisenberg remembered was already described by him in his memoirs “Der Teil und das Ganze”. The two descriptions are complementary, they are not incompatible. The two famous physicists, as Hans Bethe called it recently, just talked past each other, starting from different assumptions. They did not finish their conversation. Bohr broke it off before Heisenberg had a chance to complete his intended mission. Heisenberg and Bohr had not seen each other since the beginning of the war in 1939. In the meantime, Heisenberg and some other German physicists had been drafted by Army Ordnance to explore the feasibility of a nuclear bomb which, after the discovery of fission and of the chain reaction, could not be ruled out. How real was this theoretical possibility? By 1941 Heisenberg, after two years of intense theoretical and experimental investigations by the drafted group known as the “Uranium Club”, had reached the conclusion that the construction of a nuclear bomb would be feasible in principle, but technically and economically very difficult. He knew in principle how it could be done, by Uranium isotope separation or by Plutonium production in reactors, but both ways would take many years and would be beyond the means of Germany in time of war, and probably also beyond the means of Germany’s adversaries. -
Release of Documents Relating to 1941 Bohr-Heisenberg Meeting
Release of documents relating to 1941 Bohr-Heisenberg meeting DOCUMENTS RELEASED 6 FEBRUARY 2002 The family of Niels Bohr has decided to release all documents deposited at the Niels Bohr Archive, either written or dictated by Niels Bohr, pertaining specifically to the meeting between Bohr and Heisenberg in September 1941. There are in all eleven documents. The decision has been made in order to avoid possible misunderstandings regarding the contents of the documents. The documents supplement and confirm previously published statements of Bohr's recollections of the meeting, especially those of his son, Aage Bohr. The documents have now been organised, transcribed and translated into English at the Niels Bohr Archive. Because of the overwhelming interest in the material, it has been decided that the material should be published in full instead of being made available to scholars upon individual application, as is normal practice at the Niels Bohr Archive. This has been done by placing facsimiles, transcriptions and translations on this website here. An illustrated edition of the transcriptions and translations is published in the journal Naturens Verden, Vol. 84, No. 8 - 9. Reprints can be obtained from the Niels Bohr Archive for USD8/EUR8/DKK50 (prepaid). Release of documents relating to 1941 Bohr-Heisenberg meeting. Document 1. Draft of letter from Bohr to Heisenberg, never sent. In the handwriting of Niels Bohr's assistant, Aage Petersen. Undated, but written after the first publication, in 1957, of the Danish translation of Robert Jungk, Heller als Tausend Sonnen, the first edition of Jungk's book to contain Heisenberg's letter. -
Absolute Zero, Absolute Temperature. Absolute Zero Is the Lowest
Contents Radioactivity: The First Puzzles................................................ 1 The “Uranic Rays” of Henri Becquerel .......................................... 1 The Discovery ............................................................... 2 Is It Really Phosphorescence? .............................................. 4 What Is the Nature of the Radiation?....................................... 5 A Limited Impact on Scientists and the Public ............................ 6 Why 1896? .................................................................. 7 Was Radioactivity Discovered by Chance? ................................ 7 Polonium and Radium............................................................. 9 Marya Skłodowska .......................................................... 9 Pierre Curie .................................................................. 10 Polonium and Radium: Pierre and Marie Curie Invent Radiochemistry.. 11 Enigmas...................................................................... 14 Emanation from Thorium ......................................................... 17 Ernest Rutherford ........................................................... 17 Rutherford Studies Radioactivity: ˛-and ˇ-Rays.......................... 18 ˇ-Rays Are Electrons ....................................................... 19 Rutherford in Montreal: The Radiation of Thorium, the Exponential Decrease........................................... 19 “Induced” and “Excited” Radioactivity .................................... 20 Elster -
Aage Bohr Copenhagen, Denmark, 19 June 1922 - 9 Sept
Aage Bohr Copenhagen, Denmark, 19 June 1922 - 9 Sept. 2009 Nomination 17 Apr. 1978 Field Physics Title Professor of Physics at the University of Copenhagen Commemoration – Aage Bohr was born in Copenhagen a few months before his father won the Nobel Prize. His father was Niels Bohr, one of the giants of physics in the early 20th century, who was able to untangle the confusing mysteries of quantum mechanics. Aage Bohr’s childhood was one in which a pantheon of great physicists were friends visiting the family home. The remarkable generation of scientists who came to join his father in his work became uncles for him. These uncles were Henrik Kramers from the Netherlands, Oskar Klein from Sweden, Yoshio Nishina from Japan, Werner Karl Heisenberg from Germany and Wolfgang Pauli from Austria. These are all giants of physics, so Aage Bohr is an example of what science means and what political violence means. In fact, three years after he was born, Hitler ordered the deportation of Danish Jews to concentration camps but the Bohrs, along with most of the other Danish Jews, were able to escape to Sweden. I would like to recall that, despite these great tragedies and political problems, Aage Bohr was able to follow his father’s track, contributing to clarify a very important problem in nuclear physics. He was able, together with Ben Roy Mottelson, to explain why the nuclei were not perfectly spherical. I remind you that the volume of the nucleus is 1 millionth of a billion, 10-15 smaller than the atom, and when Bohr was young the general feeling about nuclear physics was that the nuclei were perfectly symmetric, perfect spheres, platonically perfect spheres, and here comes the contribution of Aage Bohr with Mottelson, because some experiments were showing that this was probably not true. -
James Rainwater 1 9 1 7 — 1 9 8 6
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES JAMES RAINWATER 1 9 1 7 — 1 9 8 6 A Biographical Memoir by VAL L. FITCH Any opinions expressed in this memoir are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Academy of Sciences. Biographical Memoir COPYRIGHT 2009 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES WASHINGTON, D.C. Photograph Courtesy AIP Emilio Segré Archives. JAMES RAINWATER December 9, 1917–May 31, 1986 BY VAL L . FITCH . I. RABI, THE COLUMBIA University physics department’s lead- Iing researcher, chairman, and then after his retirement, wise old man, disliked the notion that physicists had divided themselves into two groups: experimental and theoretical. “There is only Physics,” he said, “with a capital P.” His strong feeling always manifested itself in his insistence that those who did experimental theses have a rigorous grounding in theoretical subjects and that theorists know something about experiment. He had two outstanding examples of such people in the department. One was Willis Lamb, who had done his thesis with Robert Oppenheimer and after a series of notable theoretical papers had won the Nobel Prize for an experiment. Rabi never forgave Lamb for leaving Columbia and going back to his native California. And then there was Jim Rainwater, the subject of this memoir, who had done his thesis with John Dunning, a consummate experimental- ist, and had gone on to win the Nobel Prize for theoretical work. Rainwater spent his entire career at Columbia, first as a graduate student and then as a member of the faculty. He enjoyed Rabi’s highest accolades. -
Archaeology of Identity – Archäologie Der Identität Österreichische Akademie Der Wissenschaften Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Denkschriften, 406
WALTER POHL/MATHIAS MEHOFER (HG.) ARCHAEOLOGY OF IDENTITY – ARCHÄOLOGIE DER IDENTITÄT ÖSTERREICHISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN PHILOSOPHISCH-HISTORISCHE KLASSE DENKSCHRIFTEN, 406. BAND FORSCHUNGEN ZUR GESCHICHTE DES MITTELALTERS BAND 17 HERAUSGEGEBEN VOM INSTITUT FÜR MITTELALTERFORSCHUNG ÖSTERREICHISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN PHILOSOPHISCH-HISTORISCHE KLASSE DENKSCHRIFTEN, 406. BAND FORSCHUNGEN ZUR GESCHICHTE DES MITTELALTERS BAND 17 Archaeology of Identity – Archäologie der Identität HERAUSGEGEBEN VON WALTER POHL / MATHIAS MEHOFER Vorgelegt von w. M. WALTER POHL in der Sitzung am 20.Juni 2008 Gedruckt mit Unterstützung durch den Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung Umschlaggestaltung: Dagmar Giesriegl British Library Cataloguing in Publication data A Catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library Die verwendete Papiersorte ist aus chlorfrei gebleichtem Zellstoff hergestellt, frei von säurebildenden Bestandteilen und alterungsbeständig. Alle Rechte vorbehalten ISBN 978-3-7001-6502-6 Copyright © 2010 by Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Wien Satz und Layout: Gerald Reisenbauer, ÖAW Druck und Bindung: Ferdinand Berger & Söhne Ges.m.b.H., A-3580 Horn Printed and bound in the EU http://hw.oeaw.ac.at/6502-6 http://verlag.oeaw.ac.at C SANÁD BÁLINT A contribution to research on ethnicity: a view from and on the east THE STATE OF RESEARCH The results of modern research on ethnicity have not yet reached specialists of the early medieval Eurasian steppe in Eastern Europe (nor have the results of the latter reached the former). This has many reasons. First the most obvious: many of these publications remain unknown to Central and East European scholars either due to fi nancial reasons or the lack of connections or knowledge of languages. -
Parquet Theory in Nuclear Structure Calculations
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives Parquet theory in nuclear structure calculations Elise Bergli Thesis submitted to the degree of Philosophiae Doctor Department of Physics University of Oslo February 2010 © Elise Bergli, 2010 Series of dissertations submitted to the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo No. 926 ISSN 1501-7710 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without permission. Cover: Inger Sandved Anfinsen. Printed in Norway: AiT e-dit AS. Produced in co-operation with Unipub. The thesis is produced by Unipub merely in connection with the thesis defence. Kindly direct all inquiries regarding the thesis to the copyright holder or the unit which grants the doctorate. Acknowledgements This thesis is primarily, of course, my own work. It has taken quite some time, not all of it pleasant, and I look forward to finally be doing something else. However, looking back, there are several people whom I would like to thank. Without them, I would not have been able to finish. First of all, I thank my adviser Morten Hjorth-Jensen. You have pro- vided more advise and encouragement than most advisers, being accessible and ready to answer questions at almost all times, regardless of time or place. I have really learned a lot from you these years. And I would also like to thank my co-adviser Eivind Osnes for pleasant discussions and having such an immense amount of literature available.