A physicist remembers.9789812700582 A physicist remembers. Weiss, Richard J. World Scientific 2007 261 pages $42.00 Hardcover QC16 Weiss (physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory Brookhaven National Laboratory, scientific research center, at Upton (town of Brookhaven), Long Island, N.Y. It was founded in 1947 by Associated Universities, a management corporation sponsored by nine eastern U.S. universities. , etc.) is not the first to write his scientific and personal memoir in the third person, but he is probably the only naval officer NAVAL OFFICER. The name of an officer of the United States, whose duties are prescribed by various acts of congress. 2. Naval officers are appointed for the term of four years, but are removable from office at pleasure. Act of May 15, 1820, Sec. 1, 3 Story, L. , scientist, playwright and tavern keeper to do so. Weiss, who has been intimately involved in the effort to verify the predictions of quantum mechanics quantum mechanics: see quantum theory. quantum mechanics Branch of mathematical physics that deals with atomic and subatomic systems. It is concerned with phenomena that are so small-scale that they cannot be described in classical terms, and it is by describing the positions, momenta and spin density of electrons on atoms, was also the original organizer of the Sagamore sag·a·more n. A subordinate chief among the Algonquians of North America. [Eastern Abenaki s  Conferences, in which thousands of
researchers participated in studying the complexity of electron
arrangements. In his career as a researcher in some of the most
important labs in the world of physics, he has been an eyewitness to the
evolution of methods and devices of measurement, including x-ray,
neutron and positron positron: see antiparticle. positron Subatomic particle having the same mass as an electron but with an electric charge of +1 (an electron has a charge of −1). It constitutes the antiparticle (see antimatter) of an electron. probes. His account manages to be respectful of science, elegant and witty at the same time. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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