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A physicist remembers / Richard J. Weiss.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weiss, Richard J. (Richard Jerome), 1923-
- Series:
- Series in popular science ; v. 5.
- Series in Popular Science, v. 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physicists--England--Biography.
- Physicists.
- Weiss, Richard J. (Richard Jerome), 1923-.
- Weiss, Richard J.
- Sagamore Army Materials Research Conference--History.
- Sagamore Army Materials Research Conference.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A Physicist Remembers traces the effort to measure electron charge, spin, and momentum density on atoms and solids and to compare experiment with theory. Since the complexity of electron arrangements leads to subtle property changes in atoms, molecules and solids, theory and experiment have generally differed by about 1%. The Sagamore conferences have made inroads in reducing this difference. Since 1963 the triennial Sagamore conferences have been held in New York, France, Russia, Finland, Portugal, Germany, Canada, Japan, and England, attracting thousands of participants. Richard J Weiss, ori
- Contents:
- Preface; CONTENTS; Introduction; The Early Years; Brookhaven; Watertown 1: 1953-1956; Cavendish Lab, Cambridge: 1956-1957; Watertown 2: 1958-1961; Watertown 3-1961; Imperial College London: 1962-1963; Watertown 4: 1964-1972; Watertown 5: 1970-1979; Watertown 6: 1976-1980; England: 1980-1990; A Touch of Monet; England: 1980-1990; Avon: 1990; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611121143
- 9781281121141
- 1281121142
- 9789812707505
- 9812707506
- OCLC:
- 476099515
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