From Ultra Rays to Astroparticles - A Historical Introduction to Astroparticle Physics (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)

The scope of the book is to give an overview of the history of astroparticle physics, starting with the discovery of cosmic rays (Victor Hess, 1912) and its background (X-ray, radioactivity).
The book focusses on the ways in which physics changes in the course of this history. The following changes run parallel, overlap, and/or interact:
- Discovery of effects like X-rays, radioactivity, cosmic rays, new particles but also progress through non-discoveries (monopoles) etc.
- The change of the description of nature in physics, as consequence of new theoretical questions at the beginning of the 20th century, giving rise to quantum physics, relativity, etc.
- The change of experimental methods, cooperations, disciplinary divisions.
With regard to the latter change, a main topic of the book is to make the specific multi-diciplinary features of astroparticle physics clear."

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Release date:	December 2012
First published:	2012
Editors:	Brigitte Falkenburg • Wolfgang Rhode
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	346
Edition:	2012 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-9400754218
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Applied physics & special topics > Astrophysics Promotions
LSN:	9400754213
Barcode:	9789400754218

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