Selected popular writings of E.U. Condon
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Selected popular writings of E.U. Condon
Springer-Verlag, c1991
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ISBN 9780387974217
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0 e The selected popular writings contain articles he wrote on technical topics for such journals as The American Journal of Physics, Science, and Nature, as well as reflections on education, UFO's, and other topics.
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Edward Uhler Condon, A Personal Recollection.- E.U. Condon — The Physicist and the Individual.- Foreword Topics in Modern Physics, A Tribute to E.U. Condon.- Preface Topics in Modern Physics, A Tribute to E.U. Condon.- Measures for Progress: A History of the National Bureau of Standards.- Edward Uhler Condon, 1902–1974.- Obituary: Edward Uhler Condon.- The Age of the Stars.- Statistics of Vocabulary.- Recent Developments in Quantum Mechanics.- Wave Mechanics and Radioactive Disintegration.- Note on the Velocity of Sound.- Food and the Theory of Probability.- Where Do We Live? Reflections on Physical Units and the Universal Constants.- Three Catch Questions.- Mathematical Models in Modern Physics.- A Simple Derivation of the Maxwell-Boltzmann Law.- Physics in Industry.- A Physicist’s Peace.- Physics Gives Us — Nuclear Engineering.- Foundations of Nuclear Physics.- Science and the National Welfare.- Electronics and the Future.- Is There a Science of Instrumentation.- Effect of Oscillations of the Case on the Rate of a Watch.- The Development of American Physics.- Present Program of the National Bureau of Standards.- Evolution of the Quantum Theory.- Some Thoughts on Science in the Federal Government….- A Half-Century of Quantum Physics.- What is this New World?.- Graphical Representation for Unit Systems.- Intermediate Courses in Physics.- 60 Years of Quantum Physics.- Professor A.H. Compton.- Lyman James Briggs (1874–1963).- William Shipley’s Barometer (1748).- Measures for Progress: A History of the National Bureau of Standards.- The Past and the Future of the Reviews of Modern Physics.- UFO’s I Have Loved and Lost.- Education for World Understanding.- Reminiscences of a Life In and Out of Quantum Mechanics.- Tunneling — How It All Started.- SilverAnniversary of Atomic Clocks.
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E.U. Condon's major contributions were in atomic and molecular physics and spectroscopy; his book with G.H. Shortley on "The Theory of Atomic Spectra" was foremost in the field of spectroscopy for half a century and remains a reference source. He also played a role in the institutions of American science, serving for years as the editor of "Reviews of Modern Physics", and with Hugh Odishaw editing "The Handbook of Physics". After World War II, Condon became Director of the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST), and helped to make it one of the premier research laboratories in the physical sciences in the world. The "Selected Scientific Papers" reprints many of the most important contributions Condon made to atomic physics, quantum theory, nuclear physics, condensed-matter physics and other fields. The "Selected Popular Writings" contain articles he wrote on technical topics for such journals as "The American Journal of Physics, Science, and Nature", as well as reflections on education, UFO's, and other topics. This monograph on the history and philosophy of science, physical chemistry is intended to be used by physicists, science historians.
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