Public Policy and History of Physics

Presentations

• Robert Serber's 1943 Los Alamos Primer Analysis of Fission Bomb Efficiency

  ORAL

  April 15, 2013, 5:30 PM – April 15, 2013, 5:42 PM

  Authors

  • Cameron Reed

    Alma College

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• Blurring Boundaries among Physics, Chemistry, \& Astronomy: The Mosely Centenary

  ORAL

  April 15, 2013, 5:42 PM – April 15, 2013, 5:54 PM

  Authors

  • Virginia Trimble

    UC Irvine \& LCOGT, University of California, Irvine

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• The Franck-Hertz Experiment and the Nature of Ionization

  ORAL

  April 15, 2013, 5:54 PM – April 15, 2013, 6:06 PM

  Authors

  • Clayton Gearhart

    St. John's University (Minnesota)

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• Erich Regener - a forgotten cosmic ray pioneer

  ORAL

  April 15, 2013, 6:06 PM – April 15, 2013, 6:18 PM

  Authors

  • Per Carlson

    KTH, Stockholm

  • Alan Watson

    University of Leeds, UK

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• Minkowski and the concept of 4-space

  ORAL

  April 15, 2013, 6:18 PM – April 15, 2013, 6:30 PM

  Authors

  • Felix T. Smith

    Retired

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• The Role of the 1957 Chapel Hill Conference in the History of General Relativity

  ORAL

  April 15, 2013, 6:30 PM – April 15, 2013, 6:42 PM

  Authors

  • Paul Halpern

    University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

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• Is there a ``theory'' for nuclear proliferation?

  ORAL

  April 15, 2013, 6:42 PM – April 15, 2013, 6:54 PM

  Authors

  • R.J. Peterson

    University of Colorado

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• Effect on Public Policy from Macro to Nano Aspects of the Deadliest Illness of Mankind: Important Role of Physics

  ORAL

  April 15, 2013, 6:54 PM – April 15, 2013, 7:06 PM

  Authors

  • Arjun Saxena

    Retired

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