Edoardo Amaldi

The adventurous life of Friedrich Georg Houtermans, Physicist (1903-1966)

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The physicist Friedrich Houtermans (1903-1966) was an essential promoter and proponent of the development of physics in Berne. He introduced a number of activities in the field of elementary particles, with a special focus on the physics of cosmic rays, and important contributions in applied physics. This biography of Houtermans was written by Edoardo Amaldi and was almost finished just before his unexpected death in 1989. The editors have only corrected typographical errors and have introduced only minimal text changes in order to preserve the original content. Additionally they have collected and included unpublished pictures and memories f… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Braccini, Saverio (Hrsg.) / Ereditato, Antonio (Hrsg.) / Scampoli, Paola (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-3-642-32854-1
EAN: 9783642328541
Produktnummer: 13765132
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 152 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.5 cm x D0.9 cm 265 g
Abbildungen: Book; 20 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen
Gewicht: 265

Über den Autor

Prof. Edoardo Amaldi (5 September 1908 - 5 December 1989) was an Italian physicist. He graduated under the supervision of Enrico Fermi. After the second world war, Amaldi held the chair of General Physics at the Sapienza University of Rome. He was the co-founder of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics, and of CERN and ESRO. He pioneered the European search for gravitational waves. Edorardo Amaldi is the original author of the Houtermans biography and left behind an incomplete version of it that was now completed by the Editors Profs. Braccini, Ereditato (both University of Bern) and Scampoli (University of Naples).