Kinko (Hrsg.) Tsuji

Spirals and Vortices

In Culture, Nature, and Science

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This richly illustrated book explores the fascinating and ubiquitous occurrence of spirals and vortices in human culture and in nature. Spiral forms have been used as elements in the arts for thousands of years, whereas their role in nature and science - from DNA and sea shells to galaxies - is still a topic of investigation in numerous fields. Following an introduction to the cultural history of spiral forms, the book presents contributions from leading experts, who describe the origins, mechanisms and dynamics of spirals and vortices in their special fields. As a whole the book provides a valuable source of information, while also taking th… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Müller, Stefan C. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-3-030-05798-5
EAN: 9783030057985
Produktnummer: 30781230
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 298 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 19'793 KB
Auflage: 1st ed. 2019
Abbildungen: 64 schwarz-weiße und 133 farbige Abbildungen, Bibliographie

Über den Autor

Stefan C. Müller is an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Magdeburg, Germany. After obtaining his doctoral degree at the University of Göttingen in 1978, he spent 3 years as postdoctoral researcher in the USA, first at MIT and then at Stanford University in California. He was subsequently a researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute in Dortmund until 1994, when he transferred his research to Magdeburg. Kinko Tsuji is a physical chemist. She obtained her doctoral degree at the University of Tokyo in 1976. As a researcher she worked at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and at the Max-Planck-Institutes in Munich and in Dortmund. Since 1981 she has worked at the company Shimadzu Europa GmbH, developing applications of ultra high-speed cameras. Furthermore, she was active in the Japan Business Council in Europe in Brussels and served as a chairperson of the planning committee.