Freezing Physics: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and the Quest for Cold: 10 - Rilegato

Van Delft, Dirk

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ISBN 10: 9069845199 ISBN 13: 9789069845197

Casa editrice: Edita Pub House of the Royal, 2007

Riassunto

In 1908, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853&;1926) liquefied helium for the first time, briefly rendering his Dutch laboratory &;the coldest place on earth.&; Freezing Physics is the first book to tell the story of Leiden University&;s famed cryogenics laboratory and the man behind it, whose scientific accomplishments earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics.

This fascinating portrayal of Kamerlingh Onnes traces his storied career from his first experiments with helium to his later work that opened up unexplored territories of extreme cold, magnetism, and thermodynamics&;and cleared the path for the eventual discovery of superconductivity in 1911. Dirk van Delft here illuminates the scientific acuity, managerial talent, and visionary character that equipped Kamerlingh Onnes to almost single-handedly change the course of the history of physics. 

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Informazioni sull?autore

Dirk van Delft is director of the Boerhaave Museum, the National Museum of the History of Science and Medicine, Leiden, the Netherlands.

 

 

 

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In 1908, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853-1926) liquefied helium for the first time, briefly rendering his Dutch laboratory 'the coldest place on earth'. 'Freezing physics' is the first book to tell the story of Leiden University's famed cryogenics laboratory and the man behind it, whose scientific accomplishments earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1913.
The central question in this book is how Kamerlingh Onnes was able to succeed so brilliantly in developing his cryogenics laboratory - undoubtedly an exceptional feat in terms of its scale and its almost industrial approach in the Netherlands of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. A related question is what determined his success - his abilities as a scientist, his organisational talent, or his personality?
This fascinating portrayal of Kamerlingh Onnes, the man and the scientist, traces his storied career from his first experiments with helium to his later work that opened up unexplored territories of extreme cold, magnetism, and thermodynamics - and cleared the path for the eventual discovery of superconductivity in 1911.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Edita Pub House of the Royal
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9069845199
• ISBN 13: 9789069845197
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 664
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile