20th Century Physics

Essays And Recollections - A Selection Of Historical Writings By Edoardo Amaldi

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Hardcover | 17 July 1998

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Major events and personalities of 20th-century physics are portrayed in the recollections and in the historiographical works of one of the prominent figures of European science. A former student of Enrico Fermi, and a leading personality of physical research and science policy in postwar Italy, Edoardo Amaldi devoted part of his activity to document, both as witness and as historian, some significant moments of 20th-century science. The focus in this volume is on the European scene, ranging from nuclear research in Rome in the 1930s to particle physics at CERN, and including biographies of such physicists as Ettore Majorana, Bruno Touschek and Fritz Houtermans.

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Preface
Introduction
From Nuclei to Particles: 50 Years of Physics in Italy	p. 1
Nuclear Physics in Rome and the Italian Scientific Milieu Up to 1939	p. 3
Neutron work in Rome in 1934-36 and the discovery of uranium fission	p. 5
Ettore Majorana, man and scientist	p. 29
Ettore Majorana, Fifty Years After His Disappearance	p. 110
Gian Carlo Wick during the Thirties	p. 128
The Case of Physics	p. 168
The Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei During the Fascism	p. 199
Post-War Italian Physics	p. 201
Personal notes on neutron work in Rome in the 30s and post-war European collaboration in high energy physics	p. 204
The years of reconstruction	p. 263
Physics in Rome in the 40's and 50's	p. 311
In Memory of Enrico Persico	p. 368
In Commemoration of Ettore Pancini	p. 401
European Physicists and Their Institutions	p. 415
Physics at the Beginning of the Century	p. 417
The Solvay conferences in physics	p. 418
Radioactivity, a pragmatic pillar of probabilistic conceptions	p. 447
Prominent Personalities in 20th Century Physics	p. 475
A few flashes on Hans Bethe contributions during the Thirties	p. 477
George Placzek	p. 501
The Bruno Touschek Legacy	p. 505
The Adventurous Life of Friedrich Georg Houtermans, Physicist	p. 592
European Physics and CERN	p. 696
Niels Bohr and the early history of CERN	p. 697
The beginning of particle physics: from cosmic rays to CERN accelerators	p. 713
John Adams and His Times	p. 724
Bibliography	p. 745
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