Nishina Memorial Foundation (ed.)

Nishina Memorial Lectures

Creators of Modern Physics
Herausgegeben:Nishina Memorial Foundation

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Produktbeschreibung

Yoshio Nishina, referred to in Japan as the Father of Modern Physics, is well known for his theoretical work on the Klein-Nishina formula, which was done with Oskar Klein in the 6 years he spent in Copenhagen under Niels Bohr during the great era of the development of quantum physics. As described by Professor Ryogo Kubo in Chap. 2 of this volume, Nishina returned to Tokyo in 1929, and started to build up experimental and theoretical groups at RIKEN. His achievements there were many and great: (1) Encouraging Hideki Yukawa and Sin-itiro Tomonaga to tackle a new frontier of physics, leading eventually to their making breakthroughs in fundamental theoretical physics that won them Nobel prizes; (2) the discovery of "mesotrons" (the name for Yukawa particles at that time, now called muons) in 1937, which was published in Phys. Rev. , parallel to two American groups; (3) construction of small and large cyclotrons and subsequent discoveries of an important radioisotope 237 U and of symmetric ?ssion phenomena by fast neutron irradiation of uranium (1939 - 40), published in Phys. Rev. and Nature; and (4) creation of a new style of research institute, open to external reseachers, an idea inherited from Copenhagen. During World-War-II his laboratory was severely damaged, and also his cyclotrons were destroyed and thrown into Tokyo Bay right after the end of the war.

Produktdetails

• Lecture Notes in Physics 746
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Japan / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 12184644, 978-4-431-77055-8
• 2008 edition
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 164mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 796g
• ISBN-13: 9784431770558
• ISBN-10: 4431770550
• Artikelnr.: 23280847

Inhaltsangabe

Abstraction in Modern Science.- Yoshio Nishina, the Pioneer of Modern Physics in Japan.- Tomonaga Sin-Itiro : A Memorial - Two Shakers of Physics.- The Discovery of the Parity Violation in Weak Interactions and Its Recent Developments.- Origins of Life.- The Computing Machines in the Future.- Niels Bohr and the Development of Concepts in Nuclear Physics.- From X-Ray to Electron Spectroscopy.- Theoretical Paradigms for the Sciences of Complexity.- Some Ideas on the Aesthetics of Science.- Particle Physics and Cosmology: New Aspects of an Old Relationship.- The Experimental Discovery of CP Violation.- The Nanometer Age: Challenge and Change.- From Rice to Snow.- SCIENCE-A Round Peg in a Square World.- Are We Really Made of Quarks?.- Very Elementary Particle Physics.- The Klein-Nishina Formula&Quantum Electrodynamics.