Philosophy
"Modern Atomic and Radiation Physics"...free online text
Here is a free online or downloadable text by Mohamed Salem on atomic and radiation physics. It's a decent primer.Read online. Modern Atomic and Radiation PhysicsOr, you can download the text.Modern Atomic and Radiation Physics
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Deceased--john Jungerman
John JungermanDecember 28th, 1921 to March 28th, 2014 "UC Davis nuclear physics lab founder, John Jungerman, dies" by Jillian Sullivan May 5th, 2014 SFGate John Jungerman, founding director of the nuclear physics research laboratory at UC Davis...
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Radioactive Disintegration, Discovery Of The Atomic Nucleus, Artificially Produced Element Transformation--ernest Rutherford's Early Experiments
Abstract:Modern atomic and nuclear physics took its start in the early part of the twentieth century, to a large extent based upon experimental investigations of radioactive phenomena. Foremost among the pioneers of the new kind of physics was Ernest...
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Pathos And Irony...children Of Radiation And James Yamazaki
Kobayashi Masao "They fled with their arms raised in front like a procession of ghosts." Year of Birth: 1899 Age at time of blast: 45 Age when image created: 74 Will humanity learn? Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physicians Memoir of Nagasaki,...
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"doctor Atomic"--great Performances At The Met
PBS on Monday evening [December 29th] will offer Great Performances at the Met's opera "Doctor Atomic"..."John Adams's contemporary masterpiece explores a momentous episode of modern history: the creation of the atomic bomb. Movie director Penny...
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China's Sichuan Province--radiation Issue?
Reuters: Sichuan province... "China has found what it termed 50 "hazardous sources of radiation" due to last week's earthquake...." And "The disaster area is home to China's chief nuclear weapons research lab in Mianyang, as well as several secretive...
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