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Megawatts and Megatons

The Future of Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons

By: Richard L. Garwin,Georges Charpak

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Megawatts and Megatons

The Future of Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons

By: Richard L. Garwin,Georges Charpak

In Megawatts and Megatons, world-renowned physicists Richard L. Garwin and Georges Charpak offer an accessible, eminently well-informed primer on two of the most important issues of our time: nuclear weapons and nuclear power. They begin by explaining clearly and concisely how nuclear fission and fusion work in both warheads and reactors, and how they can impact human health. Making a strong and eloquent argument in favor of arms control, Garwin and Charpak outline specific strategies for achieving this goal worldwide. But they also demonstrate how nuclear power can provide an assured, economically feasible, and environmentally responsible source of energy—in a way that avoids the hazards of weapons proliferation. Numerous figures enliven the text, including cartoons by Sempé.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226284271

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9780226284279

Debunked!

ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience

By: Georges Charpak,Henri Broch

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Debunked!

ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience

By: Georges Charpak,Henri Broch

During the most scientifically advanced period in human history, belief in the paranormal and the supernatural is alarmingly common. Nobel Prize winner Georges Charpak and physics professor Henri Broch team up to show you the tricks of the trade and sleight of hand that keep astrologers, TV psychics, and spoon benders in business. Using only the simplest of science, the authors explore the effectiveness of horoscopes--the blander the better--and why, with a television audience in the millions, any strange, unlikely prediction is almost certain to come true. Not merely an exposé of magic tricks, this book demonstrates how pseudoscientists use science, statistics, and psychology to bamboozle an audience--sometimes for fun, sometimes for profit. Entertaining and enlightening, Debunked! is the antidote, vigorously asserting the virtues of doubt, skepticism, curiosity, and scientific knowledge.--From publisher description.

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JHU Press

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0801878675

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9780801878671

Debunked!

ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience

By: Georges Charpak,Henri Broch

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ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience

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Megawatts and Megatons

The Future of Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons

By: Richard L. Garwin,Georges Charpak

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The Future of Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons

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Research on Particle Imaging Detectors

By: Georges Charpak

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Research on Particle Imaging Detectors

By: Georges Charpak

Much instrumentation has been developed for imaging the trajectories of elementary particles produced in high energy collisions. Since 1968, gaseous detectors, beginning with multiwire chambers and drift chambers, have been used for the visualisation of particle trajectories and the imaging of X-rays, neutrons, hard gamma rays, beta rays and ultraviolet photons.This book commemorates the groundbreaking research leading to the evolution of such detectors carried out at CERN by Georges Charpak, Nobel Prizewinner for Physics in 1992. Besides collecting his key papers, the book also includes original linking commentary which sets his work in the context of other worldwide research.

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World Scientific

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9810219024

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9789810219024

Technicity vs Scientificity

Complementarities and Rivalries

By: Giulia Anichini,Flavia Carraro,Philippe Geslin,Georges Guille-Escuret

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Technicity vs Scientificity

Complementarities and Rivalries

By: Giulia Anichini,Flavia Carraro,Philippe Geslin,Georges Guille-Escuret

The relationship between technicity and scientificity is often overlooked or avoided despite being a determining factor for establishing interdisciplinarity. By focusing on this relationship and highlighting a number of its ramifications, this book sheds light on the hidden or skewed stakes that condition a wide array of scientific projects. The authors present different approaches based on their own professional experience, focusing on the technique–science relationship in domains as diverse as brain mapping, the decipherment of Mycenaean writing and the design process. Each chapter presents varying and often opposing epistemological conclusions to provide the reader with a wide breadth of examples in different fields. Although the scope of this book is far from exhaustive, it serves as a starting point for the necessary and long-overdue clarification of the relationship between these neighboring, yet disjointed, sectors.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119406250

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9781119406259

Unravelling the Mystery of the Atomic Nucleus

A Sixty Year Journey 1896 — 1956

By: Bernard Fernandez,Georges Ripka

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Unravelling the Mystery of the Atomic Nucleus

A Sixty Year Journey 1896 — 1956

By: Bernard Fernandez,Georges Ripka

Unravelling the Mystery of the Atomic Nucleus is a history of atomic and nuclear physics. It begins in 1896 with the discovery of radioactivity, which leads to the discovery of the nucleus at the center of the atom. It follows the experimental discoveries and the theoretical developments up to the end of the Fifties. Unlike previous books regarding on history of nuclear physics, this book methodically describes how advances in technology enabled physicists to probe the physical properties of nuclei as well as how the physical laws which govern these microscopic systems were progressively discovered. The reader will gain a clear understanding of how theory is inextricably intertwined with the progress of technology. Unravelling the Mystery of the Atomic Nucleus will be of interest to physicists and to historians of physics, as well as those interested development of science.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461441811

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9781461441816

Book's by Georges Charpak

Megawatts and Megatons

Megawatts and Megatons

Debunked!

Debunked!

Debunked!

Debunked!

Megawatts and Megatons

Megawatts and Megatons

Research on Particle Imaging Detectors

Research on Particle Imaging Detectors

Technicity vs Scientificity

Technicity vs Scientificity

Unravelling the Mystery of the Atomic Nucleus

Unravelling the Mystery of the Atomic Nucleus

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