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Chapters: Enrico Fermi, Guglielmo Marconi, Camillo Golgi, Franco Modigliani, Luigi Pirandello, Carlo Rubbia, Giosuè Carducci, Grazia Deledda, Riccardo Giacconi, Dario Fo, Renato Dulbecco, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Mario Capecchi, Eugenio Montale, Salvatore Quasimodo, Emilio G. Segrè, Salvador Luria, Marconi Plaza, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Giulio Natta, Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Daniel Bovet. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 133. 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: Guglielmo Marconi (Italian pronunciation: ; 25 April 1874 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor, best known for his development of a radio telegraph system, which served as the foundation for the establishment of numerous affiliated companies worldwide. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun, "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy" and was ennobled in 1924 as Marchese Marconi. Guglielmo Marconi Memorial in Washington, D.C. The memorial is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Marconi was born near Bologna, the second son of Giuseppe Marconi, an Italian landowner, and his Irish wife, Annie Jameson, granddaughter of the founder of the Jameson Whiskey distillery. Marconi was educated in Bologna in the lab of Augusto Righi, in Florence at the Istituto Cavallero and, later, in Livorno. As a child Marconi did not do well in school. Baptized as a Catholic, he was also a member of the Anglican Church, being married into it; however, he still received a Catholic annulment. During his early years, Marconi had an interest in science and electricity. One of the scientific developments during this era came from Heinrich Hertz, who, beginning in 1888, demonstrated that one could produce and detect electromagnetic radiationnow generally known as "radio waves",...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=12104 ... Read more

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Chapters: Cesare Borgia, Enrico Fermi, Galileo Galilei, Carlo Rubbia, Giosuè Carducci, Pope Clement Xii, Francesco Redi, Andrea Bocelli, Lorenzo Magalotti, François Carlo Antommarchi, Massimo D'alema, Giovanni Gronchi, Adriano Sofri, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Girolamo Maggi, Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, Giuliano Amato, Tiziano Terzani, Vito Volterra, Bonaventura Cavalieri, Sandro Bondi, Jože Pirjevec, Philippe Buonarroti, Mauro Cristofani, Luca Gammaitoni, Piero Calamandrei, Carlo Chiti, Sabino Cassese, Alessandro Natta, Emilio Bizzi, Stefano Arduini, Enrico Betti, Lando Ferretti, Benedetto Castelli, Adán Cárdenas, Luigi Fantappiè, Luigi Rizzi, Atto Tigri. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 223. 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: Galileo Galilei (Italian pronunciation: ; 15 February 1564 8 January 1642) was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and flautist who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and support for Copernicanism. Galileo has been called the "father of modern observational astronomy," the "father of modern physics," the "father of science," and "the Father of Modern Science." Stephen Hawking says, "Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science." The motion of uniformly accelerated objects, taught in nearly all high school and introductory college physics courses, was studied by Galileo as the subject of kinematics. His contributions to observational astronomy include the telescopic confirmation of the phases of Venus, the discovery of the four largest satellites of Jupiter (named the Galilean moons in his honour), and the observation and analysis of sunspots. Galileo also worked in applied sc...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11945 ... 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: Carlo Rubbia, Isaac Samuel Reggio, Edoardo Reja, Engelbert Besednjak, Karel Lavrič, Julius Kugy, Max Fabiani, Paolo Vidoz, Fulvio Melia, Gojmir Anton Kos, Nora Gregor, Jožef Tominc, Carlo Michelstaedter, Darko Bratina, Gianmarco Pozzecco, Karl Von Scherzer, Lojze Bratuž, Graziadio Isaia Ascoli, Avgust Pirjevec, Simon Gregorčič, Johannes Christian Brunnich, Elisa Togut, Arturo Reggio, Vladimir Truhlar, Carlo Favetti, Anton Mahnič, Milko Kos, Andrej Budal, Edvard Rusjan, Branko Marušič, Luca Tomasig, Gabriele Fabris, Martin Baučer, Nicolò Pacassi, Barbara Lah, Matej Černič, Carlo Tavagnutti, Baron Anton Von Doblhoff-Dier, Rodolfo Lipizer. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Isaac Samuel Reggio (YaShaR) (August 15, 1784 August 29, 1855) (Hebrew: ', ") was an Austro-Italian scholar and rabbi born at Gorizia. Reggio studied Hebrew and rabbinics under his father, Abraham Vita, later rabbi of Gorizia, acquiring at the same time in the gymnasium a knowledge of secular science and languages. Reggio's father, one of the liberal rabbis who supported Hartwig Wessely, paid special attention to the religious instruction of his son, who displayed unusual aptitude in Hebrew, and at the age of fourteen wrote a metrical dirge on the death of Moses efe, rabbi of Gorizia. Besides Italian, his mother tongue, Reggio knew French, German, and Latin, and he studied several Semitic languages in addition to Hebrew. He possessed a phenomenally clear, if not profound, intellect, and as mathematics offered the widest field for his analytical talent, it was at first his favorite study. In 1802 he published in the Neuwieder Zeitung the solution of a difficult mathematical problem, which gave him reputation as a mathematician (comp. Allg. Zeit. des Jud. 1837, p. 228). He discovered...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=9061697 ... 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: Carlo Rubbia, Dino Zoff, Pope Pius I, Fabio Capello, Elisa, Tarcisio Burgnich, Luigi Delneri, Primo Carnera, Edoardo Reja, Denis Godeas, Enzo Bearzot, Giorgio Di Centa, Elio Ciol, Roberto Dipiazza, Adelaide Ristori, Marzio Strassoldo, Marco Pecorari, Antonio Abetti, Aldo Vidussoni, Gae Aulenti, Elio De Anna, Francesco Dall'Ongaro, Peter Bosa,. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Fabio Capello (born 18 June 1946) is a retired Italian footballer and current manager of the England national football team, having started the role in January 2008. Capello has the distinction of winning the domestic league title with every club he has coached throughout his career. In his first five seasons as a manager he won four Serie A titles with Milan, where he also won the 1993-94 UEFA Champions League, defeating Barcelona 4-0 in a memorable final. He then spent a year at Real Madrid, where he won the La Liga title at his first attempt, and in 2001 led Roma to their first league title in 18 years. Capello also won two titles at Juventus (which were later stripped after the Calciopoli scandal), and in 2006 returned to Real Madrid, where he won another La Liga title. Overall he has won a major league championship in seven (or nine, counting the two revoked titles with Juventus) of his 16 seasons as a coach, and is one of the few managers to claim championship victories in four major European cities: Milan, Madrid, Rome, and Turin. After being appointed England manager in December 2007, Capello announced that the role would be the last of his career. Capello's contract with the Football Association came into effect on 7 January 2008, and was initially planned to run for two-and-a-half years; on 24 January 2008, Capello was named president of the League Managers Associati...http://booksllc.net/?l=en ... Read more

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Chapters: University of Pisa Alumni, University of Pisa Faculty, Cesare Borgia, Enrico Fermi, Galileo Galilei, Carlo Rubbia, Giosuè Carducci, Pope Clement Xii, Francesco Redi, Giulio Racah, Baldus de Ubaldis, Andrea Bocelli, Giovanni Gentile, Lorenzo Magalotti, François Carlo Antommarchi, Massimo D'alema, Giovanni Gronchi, Adriano Sofri, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Girolamo Maggi, Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, Corradino D'ascanio, Eugenio Beltrami, Giuliano Amato, Tiziano Terzani, Vito Volterra, Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Bonaventura Cavalieri, Sandro Bondi, Jože Pirjevec, Philippe Buonarroti, Mauro Cristofani, Luca Gammaitoni, Piero Calamandrei, Angelo Battelli, Carlo Chiti, Sabino Cassese, Alessandro Natta, Pisa Charterhouse, Arnold Davidson, Carlo Costamagna, Pasquale Villari, Egon Börger, Emilio Bizzi, Mark Schorer, Walter Noll, Stefano Arduini, Enrico Betti, Francesco Accarigi, Lando Ferretti, Ugo Spirito, Orto Botanico Di Pisa, Museo Storia Naturale Di Pisa, Orto Botanico Forestale Dell'abetone, Pier Antonio Micheli, Filippo Civinini, Benedetto Castelli, Adán Cárdenas, Luigi Fantappiè, Giovanni Arcangeli, Luigi Rizzi, Angelo Maffucci, Atto Tigri, Richiardi Sebastiano, Mario Benazzi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 298. 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: Galileo Galilei (Italian pronunciation: ; 15 February 1564 8 January 1642) was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and flautist who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and support for Copernicanism. Galileo has been called the "father of modern observational astronomy," the "father of modern physics," the "father of science," and "the Father of Modern Science." Stephen Hawking says, "Galileo, perhaps mo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11945 ... Read more

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Chapters: Felix Bloch, Carlo Rubbia, Saint-Genis-Pouilly, Compact Muon Solenoid, Overview and Differences of 1964 Prl Symmetry Breaking Papers, Willibald Jentschke, Particle Physics Experiments, Antiproton Decelerator, Riazuddin National Center for Physics, Large Electron-positron Collider, Victor Frederick Weisskopf, a Large Ion Collider Experiment, Archana Sharma, Na61/shine, Lhcb, Super Proton Synchrotron, Fast and Realistic Opengl Displayer, Cloud, Na62 Experiment, Witch Experiment, Na48 Experiment, Lhcf, Delphi Experiment, Christopher Llewellyn Smith, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Gargamelle, Edoardo Amaldi, Cern Axion Solar Telescope, Intersecting Storage Rings, Isoltrap, Alien, Microcosm, Compass Experiment, Ps210 Experiment, Totem, Compact Linear Collider, Robert Aymar, Na49 Experiment, Ua1 Experiment, Jasper Kirkby, Herwig Schopper, On-Line Isotope Mass Separator, Ua2 Experiment, Low Energy Antiproton Ring, Proton Synchrotron Booster, List of Directors General of Cern, European Muon Collaboration, Big European Bubble Chamber, Na60 Experiment, Cdhs Experiment, Openlab, Aleph Experiment, L3, Opal Detector. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 198. 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: The European Organization for Nuclear Research (French: ), known as CERN (see History), pronounced (French pronunciation: ), is the world's largest particle physics laboratory, situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the FrancoSwiss border ( ), established in 1954. The organization has twenty European member states, and is currently the workplace of approximately 2,600 full-time employees, as well as some 7,931 scientists and engineers (representing 580 universities and research facilities and 80 nationalities). CERN's main function is to provide the particle accelerators and other infrastructure needed for ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=37351 ... Read more

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Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Walter Momper, Carlo Rubbia, Pál Teleki, Edmund Hillary, Paul Lendvai, Noëlle Lenoir, Egon Ramms, Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, Herbert Stepic, Lutz Feldt, Stefan Stuligrosz, Maria Siemionow,. Online finden Sie die kostenlose Aktualisierung der Bücher. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Hans-Dietrich Genscher (* 21. März 1927 in Reideburg, Saalkreis, seit 1950 Ortsteil von Halle (Saale)) ist ein deutscher Politiker (FDP). Er war von 1969 bis 1974 Bundesminister des Innern sowie von 1974 bis 1992 fast ununterbrochen Bundesminister des Auswärtigen und Stellvertreter des Bundeskanzlers der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Von 1974 bis 1985 war er außerdem Bundesvorsitzender der FDP. Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Sohn des Juristen Kurt Genscher und der Bauerstochter Hilde Kreime, besuchte zunächst die Oberschule in Halle (Saale). Sein Vater starb 1937. 1943 leistete Genscher Dienst als Luftwaffenhelfer und wurde ein Jahr später zum Reichsarbeitsdienst eingezogen. 1945 meldete er sich freiwillig zur Wehrmacht, um (nach eigener Aussage) einer Zwangsrekrutierung durch die Waffen-SS zu entgehen. Als Angehöriger der „Armee Wenck" (siehe auch Kessel von Halbe) geriet er kurz vor Kriegsende zunächst in amerikanische und anschließend in britische Kriegsgefangenschaft. Nach seiner Entlassung arbeitete er zunächst als Bauhilfsarbeiter und legte dann 1946 die Ergänzungs-Reifeprüfung in Halle (Saale) ab. Im Winter 1946/47 erkrankte er schwer an Tuberkulose, was ihm einen dreimonatigen Sanatoriumsaufenthalt aufnötigte. An der damals unheilbaren Krankheit sollte Genscher noch die folgenden 10 Jahre laborieren; immer wieder war er zu längeren Krankenhausaufenthalten gezwungen. Dennoch absolvierte Genscher ein Studium ...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=15580 ... Read more

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Customer Reviews (3)

Trashing Nobelist Rubbia
The author trashed a well known physicist for reasons totally beyond me.Most super-stars of science have huge egos and many detracters.
Kerry Mullis, Robert Good, and David Baltimore have all three been accused of arrogance so its nothing new.
Incidently,the author trashed Nobelist Prusiner too so Rubbia is in good company!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aside from The Patchwork Mouse and False Prophets, very few journalists do justice to the subject of scientific fraud!!!!

Academic Reality
Contains a good combination of hard science and the politics of actually getting stuff done.I appreciated the details of experimental particle physics, but the best part of the book is the insider perspective on getting grant money, timing the delivery of experimental results and positioning oneself for recognition from the Nobel committee.The interplay between the theorists and experimentalists was also illuminating.The only negative factor's were the needless comments on what people were wearing at a meeting or how handsome/pretty they were that day and I believe (not positive since the only account I have is the book) a few remarks that were quite obviously taken out of context and the author failed to acknowledge this.

A great read
This book hooked me so completely that when I came across it in the library I read it from cover to cover standing (then sitting) in the aisle. Anyone with an interest in high-energy physics or academic politics with enjoy it immensely. ... Read more