marshak robert eugene 1916 1992 (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 378 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. ; LCCN: 58-59699 ; library red cloth binding ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, label, date due, pocket ; "An unabridged and unaltered republication of the first edition" ; OCLC: 535810 ; sone of immigrants from Minsk, Marshak received his PhD from Cornell University in 1939, after which he worked on the Manhattan Project, in Los Alamos, during World War II to develop the atomic bomb. In 1957, he and collaborator George Sudarshan proposed a "vector minus axial vector", o r V-A Langrangian function for weak atomic interactions, but was eclipsed by a similar proposal by Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann six months later. After serving as the preseident of City College of New York until 1979, he died in Cancun by drowning ; a spot on the title page and preface, else VG. Book.