Download or read book Personal And Scientific Reminiscences Tributes To Ahmed Zewail written by Thomas John Meurig and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Personal and Scientific Reminiscences written by Majed Chergui and published by Wspc (Europe). This book was released on 2017-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book compiles a wonderful tribute to the late Ahmed H Zewail (1946-2016), considered the 'father of femtochemistry' and a long-standing icon in the field of physical chemistry. Articles here are written by group of outstanding scientists from around the world who worked or have been affiliated with the Nobel prizewinning professor. Each article describes the authors own unique experience and relationship with Zewail, and includes details of scientific breakthroughs, discoveries, and the stories behind them. Personal and Scientific Reminiscences collects accounts from the most important individual in the physical and chemical sciences to give us a unique insight into the world and work of one of the great scientists of our time."--

Download or read book Personal and Scientific Reminiscences written by John Meurig Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A compilation of wonderful tributes to the late Ahmed Zewail (1946-2016), considered the 'Father of Femtochemistry', a long-standing icon in the field of physical chemistry, and the father of ultrafast electron-based methods. The book contains testimonies by friends and relatives of Zewail and by outstanding scientists from around the world who worked or have been affiliated with the Nobel prizewinning professor. Each contribution describes the author's own unique experience and personal relationship with Zewail, and includes details of his scientific achievements and the stories around them. Personal and Scientific Reminiscences collects accounts from the most important individuals in the physical and chemical sciences to give us a unique insight into the world and work of one of the great scientists of our time."--Publisher's website.

Download or read book Chance and Design written by Alan Hodgkin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Hodgkin believes that - contrary to popular conviction - chance plays quite as large a role as design in scientific discovery. This engaging autobiography charts the balance of the two in his own life. Beginning starts with an account of his childhood in an extended Quaker family. Not a great success at school, he nevertheless won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, and he writes informatively of the climate of university opinion in the thirties when he was an undergraduate and came to abandon the pacifist ideals of his upbringing. A chance observation on frog nerve led to a Trinity Fellowship and a year at the Rockefeller Institute in New York (where he met his future wife), to the Nobel Prize in 1963, and ultimately to the Presidency of the Royal Society. His experiments on nerve conduction seemed almost at the point of success when everything had to be abandoned on the outbreak of war in 1939, and for six years Hodgkin worked on the concept and design of airborne radar, described in the central section of the book as Flight Trials and Tribulations. The account of his return to civilian life and the resumption of experimentation includes two chapters of solid detail of Starting Again - for this is a book for any reader interested in the origin and development of a dedicated scientist.

Download or read book Personal memoirs or Reminiscences of men and manners written by Pryse Lockhart Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Personal Memoirs or reminiscences of men and manners at home and abroad during the last half century with occasional sketches of the author s life etc written by Pryse Lockhart GORDON and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Carlyle with Personal Reminiscences and Selections from His Private Letters to Numerous Correspondents written by Richard Herne Shepherd and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-29 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Download or read book Reminiscences Of Ahmed H zewail Photons Electrons And What Else A Portrait From Close Range Remembrances Of His Group Members And Family written by Dongping Zhong and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique illustrated book, PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, senior visiting scholars, and staff describe their personal experiences in working with the late Prof. Ahmed H. Zewail at Caltech. Their reminiscences provide snapshots of their rich interactions, reflecting the great scientific achievements, as well as the human and humorous sides of Ahmed H. Zewail.The contributors tell us their stories covering a period of forty years, beginning from the time of Zewail's arrival at Caltech in 1976. Some of them cover the time when Zewail was starting his pioneering work on femtochemistry at the end of 80's, while others relate events long after he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1999) and had embarked on a new career in ultrafast electron imaging. The aims and scope of this book is to provide both scientists and non-scientists descriptions of the experiences of scientists in the early or mature stages of their careers when interacting with one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century, from developing the field of femtochemistry to pioneering ultrafast electron diffraction and imaging technology. The personal dimension of Zewail's leadership is reflected in all the contributions, and highlighted by special tributes from two of his children.The scientific and anecdotal stories recounted in the book give a rare view of experiences in shaping science. The reader will get firsthand accounts of how a Nobel Prize winner interacted daily with his co-workers to develop the laser-based science and technology for which he was internationally recognized. The recounted experiences may serve as a basis for scientists developing their own research, tutoring students, and supervising postdoctoral researchers.

Download or read book Biographical Memoirs written by National Academy of Sciences and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographic Memoirs: Volume 62 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again.

Download or read book The Private World of Soviet Scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev written by Maria Rogacheva and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rogacheva sheds new light on the complex transition of Soviet society from Stalinism into the post-Stalin era. Using the case study of Chernogolovka, one of dozens of scientific towns built in the USSR under Khrushchev, she explains what motivated scientists to participate in the Soviet project during the Cold War. Rogacheva traces the history of this scientific community from its creation in 1956 through the Brezhnev period to paint a nuanced portrait of the living conditions, political outlook, and mentality of the local scientific intelligentsia. Utilizing new archival materials and an extensive oral history project, this book argues that Soviet scientists were not merely bought off by the Soviet state, but that they bought into the idealism and social optimism of the post-Stalin regime. Many shared the regime's belief in the progressive development of Soviet society on a scientific basis, and embraced their increased autonomy, material privileges and elite status.

Download or read book Reminiscences of Los Alamos 1943 1945 written by Lawrence Badash and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the World War II efforts to develop nuclear weapons have inspired a very large literature, it struck us as noteworthy that virtually nothing existed in the form of firsthand accounts. Now It Can Be Told, by General Leslie Groves, the Manhattan Project's military commander, is probably the most prominent exception, but the scientists themselves seem to have shown little interest in publishing their reminiscences. Believing that it would be not only worthwhile for posterity, but ex tremely interesting for the present generation to hear about the aspirations, fears, and activities of those who participated in this watershed of science and government collaboration, we arranged the public lecture series repre sented by this book.! We chose to focus upon Los Alamos since the project's efforts culminated there. The isolated laboratory in New Mexico was created to design and construct the first atomic bombs. More scientific brainpower was accumulated there than at any time since Isaac Newton dined alone, and the interactions with this community are of sociological interest, as the results of their work are of political import.

Download or read book Personal Memoirs Or Reminiscences of Men and Manners at Home and Abroad During the Last Half Century written by Pryse Lockhart Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade written by Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Reminiscences written by Mark J Poznansky and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, appropriately called Reminiscences, describes many of my most important memories that I have, largely focussing on my professional life in Science. It is meant to be read primarily by my "offspring" and perhaps a few others who might be interested to know how I earned a living and spent my time.

Download or read book From The Past To The Future The Legacy Of Lev Lipatov written by Joachim Bartels and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been designed to honor Lev Nikolaevich Lipatov, as a person and as one of the leading scientists in theoretical high energy physics.The book begins with three articles on Lev as a person, written endearingly by family members, a very close friend and Physics professor, Eugene Levin, and another outstanding scientist, Alfred Mueller. The book further collects 18 articles by several scientists who closely knew and/or collaborated with Lev.With an overarching range over various subfields, the book summarizes parts of Lev's achievements, presents new results which are based upon Lev's work, and paints an outlook on possible future developments. Lev's theoretical work has had an influential impact on phenomenology and experimental high energy physics; befittingly, this collection also includes several articles on these experimental aspects.

Download or read book Biologists in the Age of Totalitarianism written by Eugeniusz Nowak and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating volume resulted from one man’s frustration with the series of whitewashed obituaries and laudations he had to endure in his long career in West Germany. These were often of biologists who had worked in the Third Reich, a period generally skipped over in such eulogies. Dr Eugeniusz Nowak, born in Poland in 1933, therefore decided to do some historical research of his own. His series of controversial ‘alternative’ biographies of mainly German biologists in various journals soon grew into a successful book, with German, Russian and Polish editions. Now at last translated into English, this revised and updated volume contains over 40 brief lives, illustrated by 113 often dramatic photographs. It uses material gathered from dozens of Central European archives only accessible since the collapse of the Eastern Bloc. What makes this book so gripping is its personal element; Dr Nowak, with his contacts on both sides of the Iron Curtain, either knew these scientists personally or interviewed family members and colleagues. We see here how these victims (and perpetrators) were caught in the ideological nets of Nazism, Stalinism or Maoism, and how their lives were changed utterly by political forces beyond their control. As such, this book represents essential reading for those interested in the personal stories at the interface of totalitarian politics and biological science.