Centennial history of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Volume 2, The Department of Terrestrial Magnetism / Louis Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Louis, 1929-2004, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carnegie Institution of Washington. Department of Terrestrial Magnetism--History.

Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Research--United States--History.

Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 295 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1902, Andrew Carnegie founded the Carnegie Institution of Washington, to support innovative science research. Since its creation two years later, the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism has undertaken a broad range of research from terrestrial magnetism, ionospheric physics and geochemistry to biophysics, radio astronomy and planetary science. This second volume in a series of five histories of the Carnegie Institution describes the people and events, the challenges and successes that the Department has witnessed over the last century. Contemporary photographs illustrate some of the remarkable expeditions and instruments developed in pursuit of scientific understanding, from sailing ships to nuclear particle accelerators and radio telescopes to mass spectrometers. These photographs show an evolution of scientific progress through the century, often done under trying, even exciting circumstances.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; 1 ESTABLISHMENT; 2 CRUISES AND WAR; 3 EXPEDITIONS; 4 MEASUREMENTS: MAGNETIC AND ELECTRIC; 5 THE FLEMING TRANSITION; 6 THE LAST CRUISE; 7 THE MAGNETIC OBSERVATORIES AND FINAL LAND OBSERVATIONS; 8 THE IONOSPHERE; 9 COLLABORATION AND EVALUATION; 10 THE TESLA COIL; 11 THE VAN DE GRAAFF ACCELERATOR; 12 THE NUCLEAR FORCE; 13 FISSION; 14 COSMIC RAYS; 15 THE PROXIMITY FUZE AND THE WAR EFFORT; 16 THE TUVE TRANSITION; 17 POSTWAR NUCLEAR PHYSICS; 18 THE CYCLOTRON; 19 BIOPHYSICS; 20 EXPLOSION SEISMOLOGY; 21 ISOTOPE GEOLOGY

22 RADIO ASTRONOMY23 IMAGE TUBES; 24 COMPUTERS; 25 EARTHQUAKE SEISMOLOGY; 26 STRAINMETERS; 27 THE BOLTON AND WETHERILL YEARS; 28 ASTRONOMY; 29 THE SOLAR SYSTEM; 30 GEOCHEMISTRY; 31 ISLAND-ARC VOLCANOES; 32 SEISMOLOGY REVISITED; 33 GEOCHEMISTRY AND COSMOCHEMISTRY; 34 THE SOLOMON TRANSITION; 35 THE SUPPORT STAFF; 36 EPILOGUE; NOTES; INDEX

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-13892-2

1-280-41553-3

9786610415533

0-511-19633-4

0-511-17081-5

0-511-08076-X

0-511-33127-4

0-511-53561-9

0-511-08000-X

OCLC:

780986825