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William Shockley: The Will to Think [E-Book] /
Lojek, Bo
2021
Table of Contents: ...History: An Engineering View -- About This Book -- Prologue: The Enigma of Shockley -- Mother and Father -- The Son Billy -- Jean and Emmy -- Bell Telephone Laboratories -- The Nuclear Reactor -- World War II Hero -- The Precursors of "Translating...

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Master of Galactic Astronomy : A Biography of Jan Hendrik Oort [E-Book] /
Table of Contents: ...Youth in Oegstgeest and Leiden -- Kapateyn and Groningen -- Via Yale to Leiden -- Rotation and Dynamics of the Galaxy -- The Structure of our and Other Galaxies -- The Watershed: World War Ii -- Opening New Avenues -- Fron Kootwijk to Dwingeloo...

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Nuclear Power Explained [E-Book] /
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Manhattan Project [E-Book] : The Story of the Century/
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Obsessed by a Dream [E-Book] : The Physicist Rolf Widerøe - a Giant in the History of Accelerators /
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The History and Science of the Manhattan Project [E-Book] /
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Nico Bloembergen [E-Book] : Master of Light /
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Jan Hendrik Oort [E-Book] : Master of the Galactic System /
Table of Contents: ... and Adjunct-Director -- World War II: The Watershed -- Opening Up New Avenues -- Spiral Structure, Interstellar Medium and the Crab -- Dwingeloo, ESO, the Vatican and the Cross-Antenna -- Galactic Structure and the Dwingeloo Telescope -- Westerbork, Retirement...

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Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics [E-Book] : Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel /
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Cosmic Perspectives in Space Physics [E-Book] /
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The Legacy of J.C. Kapteyn [E-Book] : Studies on Kapteyn and the Development of Modern Astronomy /
Table of Contents: ... Internationalism, Kapteyn and the Dutch Pipeline -- 7 Growing Astronomers for Export: Dutch Astronomers in the United States before World War II -- 8 Kapteyn and Cosmology -- 9 Kapteyn, Shapley, and their Universes -- 10 Kapteyn and the Selected Areas: a Personal...

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Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy [E-Book] /
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Essays on the Future [E-Book] : In Honor of Nick Metropolis /
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History of the IAU [E-Book] : The Birth and First Half-Century of the International Astronomical Union /
Table of Contents: ... -- 6 The IAU and Political Persecutions in the 1930’s -- 7 1938–1948; World War II: Interruption and Recovery -- 8 1948–1958; Flourishing Science and Disturbing Politics -- 9 The China Conflict -- 10 1958–1964; Reforms, Berkeley 1961, and Hamburg 1964 -- 11...

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Renormalization [E-Book] : From Lorentz to Landau (and Beyond) /
Table of Contents: ... Changing Conceptualization of Renormalization Theory -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. The History of Quantum Mechanics and QFT -- 5.3. The Post-World War II Developments -- 5.4. The Changing Conceptualization of Renormalization. Effective Field Theories -- 5.5...

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Selected Scientific Papers of E.U. Condon [E-Book] /
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Instabilities in Luminous Early Type Stars [E-Book] : Proceedings of a Workshop in Honour of Professor Cees De Jager on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday held in Lunteren, The Netherlands, 21–24 April 1986 /
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Photodetectors [E-Book] : An Introduction to Current Technology /
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Aging and Technological Advances [E-Book] /
Table of Contents: ... and over since World War II: Their Nature and Causes -- Technological Change and the Labor Market Situation of Older Workers -- Impact of Technological Change on Middle-Aged and Older Workers: Parallels Drawn from a Structural Perspective -- Recent Trends...

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