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A biography of Maria Goeppert Mayer, a physicist who contributed to the development of the atomic bomb and who, in 1963, was cowinner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for her work on the nuclear shell model theory. ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Joseph Campbell, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Susan Sontag, Martha Graham, List of Sarah Lawrence College People, Paul Goodman, Dana Gioia, Alan Shulman, E. L. Doctorow, Jane Kramer, Norman Dello Joio, Randall Jarrell, William Schuman, Donald Mckayle, Galway Kinnell, Rudolf Arnheim, Grace Paley, Glenda Adams, Marguerite Yourcenar, Billy Collins, Léonie Adams, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Bessie Schonberg, David Maslanka, Muriel Rukeyser, Andrei Şerban, Jean Valentine, Mark Doty, Allan Gurganus, Chester Biscardi, Stephen Dobyns, Santha Rama Rau, Michael Burkard, Dorothy Delay, Randall Kenan, Suzanne Gardinier, Peter Cameron, Horace Gregory, Lawrence Weschler, Matthea Harvey, Fawaz Gerges, Wilford Leach, Cornelius Eady, Ellen Faull, Marie Howe, Sara Wilford, Cynthia Macdonald, Tina Chang, Cynthia Cruz, Martha Rhodes, Sue Kwock Kim, Carolyn Ferrell, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Joan Silber, Joel Sternfeld, Thomas Lux, Meyer Kupferman, Jo Ann Beard, Valerie Martin, Genevieve Taggard, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Iii, Paul Lisicky, Glyn O'malley, Mark Helias, Max Lerner, Ira Glasser, Joseph Papaleo, Nikita Mikros, Simon Sargon, Dennis Nurkse, Theodore Roszak, Mary La Chapelle, Vijay Seshadri, Veena Talwar Oldenburg, Caroline F. Ware, Matilde Zimmermann, Patty Dann, Suzanne Chazin, Eduardo Lago, Melvin Jules Bukiet, Gilberto Perez. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 October 30, 1987) was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work is vast, covering many aspects of the human experience. His philosophy is often summarized by his phrase: "Follow your bliss." American Museum of Natural HistoryJoseph Campbell was born and raised in White Plains, New York in an uppe...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=16315 ... Read more

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Chapters: Wojciech Kilar, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Franz Leopold Neumann, Ernst Wilimowski, Krzysztof Krawczyk, Henryk Broder, Franz Machon, Willy Fritsch, Adam Taubitz, Kazimierz Kutz, Dariusz Jerczyński, Aleksandra Olsza, Hans Bellmer, Zygmunt Pieda, Kurt Goldstein, Sandra Zaniewska, Lech Majewski, Chaskel Besser, Krzysztof Warzycha, Ewald Latacz, Józef Stolorz, Marcel Witeczek, Christoph Dabrowski, Richard Herrmann, Hans Källner, Czesław Słania, Jerzy Kukuczka, Roman Ogaza, Sławomir Idziak, Ewald Dytko, Janusz Gaudyn, Milena Sadurek, Tomasz Zdebel, Jan Furtok, Karol Kossok, Benjamin Kuciński, John Baildon, Paul Baender, Hans Sachs, Jacek Kowalczyk, Erwin Nyc, Barbara Piecha, Marek Seweryn, Aleksandra Śląska, Mariusz Muszalik, Jan Kustos, Bogumił Kobiela, Irena Pawełczyk, Zenon Stefaniuk, Marek Klimczok, Jerzy Montag, Reinhold Olesch, Rajmund Moric, Krzysztof Mikuła, Mirosław Kubisztal, Ewa Ziętek, Ania Wiśniewska, Jerzy Snoppek, Joanna Smolarek, Jolanta Janota, Krystyna Bochenek. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 195. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Franz Leopold Neumann (May 23, 1900 September 2, 1954) was a German-Jewish left-wing political activist and labor lawyer, who became a political scientist in exile and is best-known for his theoretical analyses of National Socialism. He studied in Germany and the United Kingdom, and spent the last phase of his career in the United States. Together with Ernst Fraenkel and Arnold Bergstraesser, Neumann is considered to be among the founders of modern political science in the Federal Republic of Germany. Neumann was born in Kattowitz, Silesia. As a student Neumann supported the German November revolution of 1918 and joined the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Neumann was instrumental in organizing the Socialist Students Society in Frankfurt...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2973134 ... Read more

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Chapters: Hans Geiger, Klaus Fuchs, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Hans Bethe, Fritz Houtermans, Willibald Jentschke, Josef Schintlmeister, Georg Stetter, Friedrich Bopp, Walter Gerlach, Ernst Stuhlinger, Karl Wirtz, Henry Margenau, Frank Oppenheimer, Rudolf Mössbauer, Henry H. Barschall, Christian Gerthsen, Klaus Blaum, Emil Rupp, Jochen Heisenberg, Luise Meyer-Schützmeister. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 112. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hans Albrecht Bethe (German pronunciation: ; July 2, 1906 March 6, 2005) was a German-American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. A versatile theoretical physicist, Bethe also made important contributions to quantum electrodynamics, nuclear physics, solid-state physics and particle astrophysics. During World War II, he was head of the Theoretical Division at the secret Los Alamos laboratory developing the first atomic bombs. There he played a key role in calculating the critical mass of the weapons, and did theoretical work on the implosion method used in both the Trinity test and the "Fat Man" weapon dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. For most of his career, Bethe was a professor at Cornell University. During the early 1950s, Bethe also played an important role in the development of the larger hydrogen bomb, though he had originally joined the project with the hope of proving it could not be made. Bethe later campaigned together with Albert Einstein in the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists against nuclear testing and the nuclear arms race. He influenced the White House to sign the ban of atmospheric nuclear tests in 1963 and the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, SALT I. His scientific research never ceased even into the later years of his life. He is one of the few scientists who can c...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=185853 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Marie Curie, Lise Meitner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Shirley Jackson, Ursula Franklin, Mileva Marić, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Émilie Du Châtelet, Chien-Shiung Wu, Mildred Dresselhaus, Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber, Vera Yurasova, Lisa Randall, Heidi Jo Newberg, Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara, Carolyne M. Van Vliet, Hélène Langevin-Joliot, Hedwig Kohn, Lene Hau, Hertha Sponer, Anita Goel, Melba Phillips, Marietta Blau, Luisa Ottolini, Beatriz Gato-Rivera, Sameera Moussa, Katherine Freese, Rama Bansil, Heather Couper, Eva Ekeblad, Sylvia Fedoruk, Harriet Brooks, Laura Bassi, Hertha Wambacher, Eva Silverstein, Mildred Allen, Adrienne Wootters, Mary K Gaillard, Heather Reid, Xie Xide, Helen T. Edwards, Evelyn Fox Keller, Luise Meyer-Schützmeister, Louise Dolan, Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz, Elsa Beata Bunge, Alice Leigh-Smith, Dušanka Đokić, Karen Kavanagh, Ann Nelson, Persis Drell, Renate Loll, Beth Willman. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Ursula Martius Franklin, CC, O.Ont, FRSC (born September 16, 1921 in Munich, Germany), is a Canadian metallurgist, research physicist, author and educator who has taught at the University of Toronto for more than 40 years. She is the author of The Real World of Technology, which is based on her 1989 Massey Lectures, and The Ursula Franklin Reader: Pacifism as a Map, a collection of her papers, interviews, and talks. Franklin is a practising Quaker and has been active in working on behalf of pacifist and feminist causes. She has written and spoken extensively about the futility of war and the connection between peace and social justice. Franklin has received numerous honours and awards, including the Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case for promoting the equality of girls and women in Canada and the Pear...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1094203 ... Read more

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Kapitel: Charles Sanders Peirce, Riccardo Giacconi, James Franck, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Christian B. Anfinsen, René Girard, Judith Butler, David Harvey, Frederic C. Lane, Sidney Mintz, J. M. Coetzee, James Mark Baldwin, Paul Wolfowitz, Clemens Von Pirquet, Pedro Salinas, Rosario Ferré, Harold Cherniss, Bartel Leendert Van Der Waerden, Paul de Man, Charles Singer, Richard Harrison Shryock, James Van Allen, Walter Benn Michaels, Oscar Zariski, George Henry Falkiner Nuttall, Henry Augustus Rowland, Yves Bonnefoy, Leo Spitzer, Marcel Detienne, Mary Ainsworth, Karl Ferdinand Herzfeld, Vincent Descombes, William Kurrelmeyer, Paul Richard Blum, Stephen Myron Schwebel, John Barth, Werner Hamacher, Gustav Kafka, Ira Remsen, Clifford Truesdell, Aurel Wintner, James Joseph Sylvester, Jay Clayton, Owsei Temkin, Gustav Aschaffenburg, Benjamin Lees, Alfred D. Chandler Junior, Victor Kolyvagin, Alfred Gudeman, Hugh Davis Graham, Elmer Mccollum, Russell Mccormmach, Peter Agre, Giulia Sissa, Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, Leonor Michaelis, Simon Newcomb, Alan Walker, Richard Burmeister, Robert Provine, Charles L. Bennett, Fritz Machlup, Paul Hugh Emmett, Ingo Müller, William Foxwell Albright, Georg Luck, James Rendel Harris, Willie B. Lamousé-Smith, Jonathan Samet, Arthur O. Lovejoy, Peter Achinstein, Robert Williams Wood, Florence Rena Sabin, Vernon Mountcastle, Thomas Schläpfer, Albert Lester Lehninger, Jack Morava, Béla Balassa, Rainer Nägele, Philip Bard, Paul Smolensky. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Charles Sanders Peirce (pronounced purse) (September 10, 1839 - April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Peirce was educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for 30 years. It is largely his contributions to logic, mathematics, philosophy, and semiotics (and his founding of pragmatism) that are appreciated today. In 1934, the philosopher Paul Weiss called ...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Two photon absorption (TPA) is the simultaneous absorption of two photons of identical or different frequencies in order to excite a molecule from one state (usually the ground state) to a higher energy electronic state. The energy difference between the involved lower and upper states of the molecule is equal to the sum of the energies of the two photons. Two-photon absorption is a second-order process several orders of magnitude weaker than linear absorption and is therefore not an everyday phenomenon. It differs from linear absorption in that the strength of absorption depends on the square of the light intensity, thus it is a nonlinear optical process. ... Read more

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Examines the lives of Barbara McClintock, Maria Mayer, Rosalyn Yalow, and Rita Levi-Montalcini, women scientists who won the Nobel Prize against extraordinary odds, in different fields and under different circumstances. ... Read more