Nuclear Physics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) - Softcover

Close, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198718632 ISBN 13: 9780198718635

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Exploring key concepts, Frank Close shows how nuclear physics brings the physics of the stars to Earth

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Frank Close is Professor of Physics at Oxford University and a Fellow of Exeter College. He was formerly the Head of the Theoretical Physics Division at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and Head of Communications and Public Education at CERN. He is the author of several books, including the best-selling Lucifer's Legacy (OUP, 2000), and was the winner of the Kelvin Medal of the Institute of Physics for his 'outstanding contributions to the public understanding of physics'. His other books include The Cosmic Onion (1983), The Particle Explosion (1987), End (1988), Too Hot to Handle (1991), and The Particle Odyssey (OUP, 2002). In 2013 Professor Close was awarded the Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize for Communication of Science.

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0198718632
• ISBN 13: 9780198718635
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144
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