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The matter of everything : twelve experiments that changed our world / Suzie Sheehy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sheehy, Suzie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physics--Experiments--History--20th century--Case studies.
- Physics.
- Physics--Experiments.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 313 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.
- Summary:
- The Matter of Everything, accelerator physicist Suzie Sheehy introduces us to the people who, through a combination of genius, persistence and luck, staged the ground-breaking experiments of the twentieth century that changed the course of history. From the serendipitous discovery of X-rays in a German laboratory, to the scientists trying to prove Einstein wrong (and inadvertently proving him right), to the race to split open the atom, Sheehy shows how our most brilliant, practical physicists have shaped innumerable aspects of how we live today. Radio, TV, the chips in our smartphones, MRI scanners, radar equipment and microwaves, to name a few: these were all made possible by their determination to understand, and control, the microscopic.
- Contents:
- Part 1. Dismantling classical physics
- Cathode ray tube: X-rays and the electron
- The gold foil experiment: the structure of the atom
- The photoelectric effect: the light quantum
- Part 2. Matter beyond atoms
- Cloud chambers: cosmic rays and a shower of new particles
- The first particle accelerators: splitting the atom
- Cyclotron: artificial production of radioactivity
- Synchrotron radiation: an unexpected light emerges
- Part 3. The standard model and beyond
- Particle physics goes large: the strange resonances
- Mega-detectors: finding the elusive neutrino
- Linear accelerators: the discovery of quarks
- The tevatron: a third generation of matter
- The Large Hadron Collider: the Higgs Boson and beyond
- Future experiments.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781526618955
- 1526618958
- 9781526618962
- 1526618966
- OCLC:
- 1303074917
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