Progress in Surface and Membrane Science
Volume 13
Published on 22. October 2013
542 pages
978-1-4832-2496-1 (ISBN)
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Physics: 1901-1921 presents the Nobel lectures, presentation addresses, and biographies of scientists who won the Nobel Prize in Physics during the years 1901-1921. These Nobel laureates include Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Antoine Henri Becquerel, Pierre and Marie Curie, Joseph John Thomson, Gabriel Lippmann, Guglielmo Marconi, Max Planck, and Albert Einstein. Their lectures cover topics ranging from the theory of electrons and the propagation of light to radioactivity, cathode rays, and carriers of negative electricity. This volume begins with the presentation speech by C. T. Odhner, president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and former rector of the National Archives, for Röntgen, followed by Röntgen's lecture. This is followed by presentation speeches, lectures, and biographies of other physicists such as Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman, Antoine Henri Becquerel, Pierre and Marie Curie, Lord Rayleigh, Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard, Joseph John Thomson, Albert Abraham Michelson, Gabriel Lippmann, Guglielmo Marconi, Carl Ferdinand Braun, Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Wilhelm Wien, Nils Gustaf Dalén, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, and Max von Laue. Other Nobel Prize winners featured in this book are William Henry Bragg, William Lawrence Bragg, Charles Glover Barkla, Max Planck, Johannes Stark, Charles-Édward Guillaume, and Albert Einstein. This book will be of interest to physicists and other scientists.
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¿ForewordPublisher's Note1901 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Motivation Presentation Biography1902 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Pieter Zeeman Motivation Presentation The Theory of Electrons and the Propagation of Light Biography Light Radiation in a Magnetic Field Biography1903 Antoine Henri Becquerel, Pierre Curie and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Motivation Presentation On Radioactivity, a New Property of Matter Biography Radioactive Substances, Especially Radium Biography Biography1904 Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt) Motivation Presentation The Density of Gases in the Air and the Discovery of Argon Biography1905 Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard Motivation Presentation On Cathode Rays Biography1906 Joseph John Thomson Motivation Presentation Carriers of Negative Electricity Biography1907 Albert Abraham Michelson Motivation Presentation Recent Advances in Spectroscopy Biography1908 Gabriel Lippmann Motivation Presentation Colour Photography Biography1909 Guglielmo Marconi and Carl Ferdinand Braun Motivation Presentation Wireless Telegraphic Communication Biography Electrical Oscillations and Wireless Telegraphy Biography1910 Johannes Diderik van der Waals Motivation Presentation The Equation of State for Gases and Liquids Biography1911 Wilhelm Wien Motivation Presentation On the Laws of Thermal Radiation Biography1912 Nils Gustaf Dalén Motivation Presentation Biography1913 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Motivation Presentation Investigations Into the Properties of Substances at Low Temperatures, Which Have Led, Amongst Other Things, to the Preparation of Liquid Helium Biography1914 Max von Laue Motivation Presentation Concerning the Detection of X-Ray Interferences Biography1915 William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg Motivation Account of the Braggs' Work Biography The Diffraction of X-Rays by Crystals Biography1916 ( Prize Not Awarded )1917 Charles Glover Barkla Motivation Account of Barkla's Work Characteristic Röntgen Radiation Biography1918 Max Planck Motivation Presentation The Genesis and Present State of Development of the Quantum Theory Biography1919 Johannes Stark Motivation Presentation Structural and Spectral Changes of Chemical Atoms Biography1920 Charles-Édouard Guillaume Motivation Presentation Invar and Elinvar Biography1921 Albert Einstein Motivation Presentation Fundamental Ideas and Problems of the Theory of Relativity BiographyName IndexSubject IndexIndex of Biographies
