Fritz London used to be one of many 20th century's key figures within the improvement of theoretical physics. A quiet and self-effacing guy, he was once one of many founders of quantum chemistry, and used to be the 1st to provide a phenomenological rationalization of superconductivity. This completely researched biography provides a close account of London's lifestyles and paintings in Munich, Berlin, Oxford, Paris, and at last within the usa. protecting a desirable interval within the improvement of theoretical physics, and containing an appraisal of London's paintings by means of the overdue John Bardeen, this e-book could be of significant curiosity to physicists, chemists, and to an individual drawn to the historical past of science.

Marius Barnard is better referred to as a member of the pioneering clinical staff that played the world’s first human center transplant at Groote Schuur health center in 1967, together with his brother Chris. yet his achievements prolonged into different spheres.
He was once an lively anti-apartheid campaigner and MP for the innovative Federal celebration, he labored to enhance cardiac surgical procedure criteria in the back of the Iron Curtain and globally, and he performed a number one position within the production of serious disorder coverage - his invention, and person who has at once benefited the in poor health round the world.
From humble beginnings because the son of missionary mom and dad within the dusty Karoo city of Beaufort West to his place as one of many world’s top cardiac surgeons, Marius Barnard’s tale is an engaging and noteworthy chronicle of non-public decision and braveness. it's considered one of few first-hand bills of the inaugural human center transplant and its far-reaching repercussions, either on this planet of drugs and within the inner most lives of its pioneers. during this honest and deeply own memoir, Barnard speaks frankly approximately his relationships along with his brother, his colleagues and his adversaries, and describes with humility his fourteen-year fight with cancer.
With candour, authenticity and grace, Defining Moments offers the ambitious demanding situations and spellbinding successes within the lifetime of this overseas clinical icon.

during this biography of Enrico Fermi (1901-54), who received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1938 for his paintings on radioactivity through neutron bombardment and his discovery of transuranic components and who completed the 1st managed nuclear chain response in Chicago in 1942, his scholar, collaborator, fellow Nobel Prize winner and lifetime buddy Emilio Segrè provides the scientist, and explains in nontechnical phrases Fermi’s paintings and his achievements.

“Segrè’s description of Fermi’s youth and his involvement with and dedication to physics is intensely interesting... Segrè is familiar with and describes very essentially the phenomenal features of Fermi’s theoretical paintings: readability and completeness... Segrè has succeeded admirably in describing Fermi’s complete clinical occupation, and this ebook is strongly recommended.” — M. L. Goldberger, Science

“We needs to thank Emilio Segrè for this authoritative, revealing and encouraging booklet. It covers in a masterly type the main interesting thirty years of contemporary physics and the nature and actions of 1 of its maximum contributors.” — Nature

“A wealthy, well-rounded portrait of [Fermi] the scientist, his tools, highbrow heritage, and achievements. Explaining in nontechnical phrases the medical difficulties Fermi confronted or solved, Enrico Fermi, Physicist comprises illuminating fabric pertaining to Fermi’s formative years in Italy and the improvement of his clinical style.” — Physics Today

“All that would be was hoping for in a biography of 1 Nobel Prize winner in physics by means of one other has been discovered in Emilio Segrè’s biography of his buddy, Enrico Fermi... a really masterly drawing of Fermi’s personality, together with his physics and the occasions in which he moved, Segrè has supplied us with a super appreciation of 1 of the main pre-eminent figures of contemporary physics.” — Physics Bulletin

“This first-class biography, written via one of many unique workforce who labored with him throughout the Thirties at Rome, catches fantastically the fashion and spirit of its subject... With Fermi’s passing the age of the common experimental and theoretical physicist is long gone. Segre’s ebook tells the tale of this heroic age of physics and of its important actor; it's a satisfaction to learn, and that i suggest it heartily.” — American Scientist

“Here we meet the guy at paintings and we see the meticulous scientist... This e-book additionally indicates us one other side of Fermi: that of the conscientious scientist torn among his love of natural examine and his love of teaching.” — V. Barocas, Annals of Science

“Segrè is a delicate biographer, aware of all difficulties which can plague the artistic scientist; he indicates, chiefly, Fermi’s commitment, zeal, and outstanding abilities. Segrè has supplied greater than sympathy. a lot that's new approximately Fermi’s formative years in Italy seems to be here... [A] very lucrative book... each physicist probably want to learn this biography, besides each reader who has an curiosity in highbrow advancements in the course of the 1920-1960 era.” — J. Z. Fullmer, The Ohio magazine of Science

a lot has been written approximately Albert Einstein, technical and biographical, yet little or no is still as helpful as this specific hybrid of a ebook written by means of Einstein’s colleague and modern. either wealthy in own insights and down to earth in a deep wisdom of twentieth-century technology, Phillip Frank's biography anchors the reader with a lucid assessment of physics and attracts an intimate portrait of the Nobel Prize–winner.

l. a. STORIA DEFINITIVA DI AMAZON E DEL SUO AMBIZIOSO, INTRAPRENDENTE, CONTROVERSO FONDATORE: JEFF BEZOS

AMAZON.COM è nata inviando libri in line with posta e ha cavalcato l. a. prima ondata dell’isteria dot-com. Ma il suo visionario fondatore Jeff Bezos non si accontentava di essere un libraio alla moda; voleva che Amazon offrisse un assortimento illimitato e una comodità senza pari, a prezzi più bassi di chiunque altro: voleva che diventasse il “negozio globale”. in step with realizzare l. a. sua grandiosa visione, ha sviluppato una cultura aziendale improntata a un’ambizione sfrenata e a segreti mai rivelati. Almeno fino a oggi.

Per los angeles prima volta, il reporter di Bloomberg Businessweek Brad Stone intervista dipendenti ed ex dipendenti di Amazon, i familiari di Bezos, e presenta ai lettori l. a. vera storia di Amazon, arricchita da testimonianze dirette.

Rispetto agli altri grandi innovatori della tecnologia – Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg – Bezos è un uomo estremamente riservato. Ma l. a. sua incessante ricerca di nuovi mercati sospinge Amazon in avventure emozionanti e rischiose, come il Kindle e il cloud computing, according to trasformare il commercio come Henry Ford trasformò l’industria: con una temerarietà pari solo al suo impegno in keeping with offrire l. a. patron event perfetta. Vendere tutto è los angeles biografia completa e definitiva dell’Internet corporation che ha piazzato una delle leading e più grandi scommesse sul internet e che ha cambiato in step with sempre il nostro modo di leggere e di fare buying. È los angeles vera e attesissima storia dell’azienda che incarna l. a. nostra epoca e un ritratto intimo e profondo dell’iconico imprenditore che l’ha fondata.

Biographic Memoirs quantity 91 contains the biographies of deceased participants of the nationwide Academy of Sciences and bibliographies in their released works. each one biographical essay used to be written through a member of the Academy accustomed to the pro profession of the deceased. For historic and bibliographical reasons, those volumes are worthy returning to time and again. 

an interesting biography that captures the thrill of the early days of nuclear physics, Ernest Rutherford tells the tale of the down-to-earth New Zealander who turned one of many top-rated pioneers of subatomic physics. Rutherford's achievements have been a number of and included:
* Inventing a detector for electromagnetic waves
* learning the lifestyles of alpha and beta rays in uranium radiation
* growing (with Frederick Soddy) the "disintegration concept" of radioactivity, which regards radioactive phenomena as atomic -- no longer molecular -- approaches
* Demonstrating that the interior buildings of parts correspond with a gaggle of strains that symbolize them, that can then be assigned an atomic quantity and, extra vital, the homes of every point might be outlined by way of this quantity
* And his maximum contribution of all - he stumbled on that the atom had a nucleus and that it contained the absolutely charged proton
From his early days as a scholarship pupil to the tip of his lifestyles as he persisted to paintings in his lab, Ernest Rutherford unearths the existence and instances of 1 of the best minds of the 20 th century.

Oxford snap shots in technological know-how is an on-going sequence of medical biographies for teenagers. Written through most sensible students and writers, every one biography examines the character of its topic in addition to the idea method resulting in his or her discoveries. those illustrated biographies mix available technical details with compelling own tales to painting the scientists whose paintings has formed our knowing of the usual world.

George Perkins Marsh (1801�1882) used to be the 1st to bare the risk of environmental misuse, to give an explanation for its factors, and to prescribe reforms. David Lowenthal right here bargains clean insights, from new assets, into Marsh�s occupation and indicates his relevance this present day, in a booklet which has its roots in yet utterly supersedes Lowenthal�s prior biography George Perkins Marsh: flexible Vermonter (1958). Marsh�s devotion to the fix of nature, to the worries of operating humans, to women�s rights, and to historic stewardship resonate greater than ever. His Vermont birthplace is now a countrywide park chronicling American conservation, and the campaign he introduced is now global.

Marsh�s seminal ebook guy and Nature is famed for its ecological acumen. The clue to its inception lies in Marsh�s many-sided engagement within the lifetime of his time. The broadest student of his day, he used to be an acclaimed linguist, legal professional, congressman, and popular diplomat who served 25 years as U.S. envoy to Turkey and to Italy. He helped came across and advisor the Smithsonian establishment, formed the Washington Monument, penned effective tracts on fisheries and on irrigation, spearheaded public technological know-how, paintings, and structure. He wrote on camels and company corruption, Icelandic grammar and Alpine glaciers. His stinky and provocative letters remove darkness from lifestyles on either side of the Atlantic.

Like Darwin�s beginning of Species, Marsh�s guy and Nature marked the inception of a really smooth approach of the area, of taking care lest we irreversibly degrade the cloth of humanized nature we're absolute to deal with. Marsh�s ominous warnings encouraged reforestation, watershed administration, soil conservation, and nature security in his day and ours.

George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation used to be presented the organization for American Geographers' 2000 J. B. Jackson Prize. The booklet used to be additionally at the shortlist for the 1st British Academy ebook Prize, presented in December 2001.

Dava Sobel, autora del best-seller de culto Longitud, recrea l. a. vida de Copérnico, el hombre que se atrevió a decir, hace casi quinientos años, que l. a. Tierra no period el centro del universo. Cómo lo supo, cómo lo reasonó demostrar, cómo lo escribió... es una historia que Sobel convierte en una narración llena de encanto, l. a. crónica de un hombre enfrentado a l. a. ciencia, l. a. religión y los angeles sociedad de su época.
Pero entonces aparece un segundo personaje, un joven admirador, aspirante a científico y astrónomo novice, que oye aquella extraña teoría, lee lo que Copérnico ha escrito casi avergonzado de su concept, y come to a decision que aquello debe ver l. a. luz. Rético, ese joven, cambia completamente el curso de los acontecimientos; y un descubrimiento se convierte en una revolución, aún hoy una de las más asombrosas del intelecto humano.