Physics Today, Volume 69, Number 8, August 2016

Beschreibung

76 pages, plus covers. Illustrations (many with color). Corner of front cover creased. The featured articles are: Do quantum spin liquids Exist? by Takashi Imai and Young S. Lee; Meghnad Saha: Physicist and nationalist by Somaditya Banerjee; and The Big Science of stockpile stewardship by Victor H. Reis, Robert J. Hanrahan, and W. Kirk Levedahl. Victor Herbert Reis (born 11 February 1935) is a technologist and former U.S. government official, best known as the architect and original sponsor of the U.S. nuclear Stockpile Stewardship Program and its associated Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI), which resulted in the creation of several new generations of government-sponsored supercomputers. This Reis et al article addresses that In the quarter century since the US last exploded a nuclear weapon, an extensive research enterprise has maintained the resources and know-how needed to preserve confidence in the country's stockpile. Meghnad Saha FRS (6 October 1893 - 16 February 1956) was an Indian astrophysicist who developed the Saha ionization equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars. His work allowed astronomers to accurately relate the spectral classes of stars to their actual temperatures. He was elected to the Parliament of India in 1952 from Kolkata. Banerjee is the History of Science Section Chair at the Tennessee Academy of Science. Physics Today is the membership magazine of the American Institute of Physics. First published in May 1948, it is issued on a monthly schedule, and is provided to the members of ten physics societies, including the American Physical Society. It is also available to non-members as a paid annual subscription. The magazine informs readers about important developments in overview articles written by experts, shorter review articles written internally by staff, and also discusses issues and events of importance to the science community in politics, education, and other fields. The magazine provides a historical resource of events associated with physics. For example it discussed debunking the physics of the Star Wars program of the 1980s, and the state of physics in China and the Soviet Union during the 1950s and 1970s. Presumed First Edition, First printing of this issue.

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Titel

Physics Today, Volume 69, Number 8, August 2016

Verlag

American Institute of Physics, Melville, NY

Veröffentlichungsdatum

2016

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Wraps

Ausgabe

1. Auflage

Zustand

Good

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• Nuclear Weapons