Read article 'How the hippies saved physics: science, counterculture, and the quantum revival'
Carlos Lourenço reviews in 2012 How the hippies saved physics: science, counterculture, and the quantum revival.
Read article 'Powering the Future: How We Will (Eventually) Solve the Energy Crisis and Fuel the Civilization of Tomorrow'
Massimo Giovannini reviews in 2012 Powering the Future: How We Will (Eventually) Solve the Energy Crisis and Fuel the Civilization of Tomorrow.
Read article 'The History of Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction'
Herbert Dreiner reviews in 2012 The History of Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction.
Read article '100 years of cosmic rays'
This issue of the CERN Courier marks the discovery of cosmic rays.
Read article 'A discovery of cosmic proportions'
What Victor Hess found out when he took to the skies in 1912.
Read article 'Domenico Pacini and the origin of cosmic rays'
A forgotten pioneer of the early days of cosmic-ray research.
Read article 'The discovery of air-Cherenkov radiation'
How a simple but audacious experiment opened up a new technique.
Read article 'From ionization of air to beyond the LHC'
Alan Watson looks at how the links between particle physics and cosmic-ray research have evolved over the past century.
Read article 'Principles of Radiation Interaction in Matter and Detection (3rd edition)'
Like its predecessors, this third edition addresses the fundamental principles of the interaction between radiation and matter and the principles of particle detection and detectors in a range of fiel...
Read article 'The Fundamentals of Imaging: From Particles to Galaxies'
The range of imaging tools, both in the type of wave phenomena used and in the devices that utilize them, is vast. This book illustrates this range.
