Scientists
epub |eng | 2015-02-27 | Author:Parker, Cynthia A. [Parker, Cynthia A.]

The World’s Fair of 1893 Westinghouse and Tesla struggled against Edison to convince the public of the safety of A/C power over D/C. Westinghouse’s faith in the A/C system influenced ...
( Category: Scientists March 5,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-02-27 | Author:Cynthia A. Parker [Parker, Cynthia A.]

The World’s Fair of 1893 Westinghouse and Tesla struggled against Edison to convince the public of the safety of A/C power over D/C. Westinghouse’s faith in the A/C system influenced ...
( Category: Scientists March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-30 | Author:Victor K. McElheny [VICTOR K. MCELHENY]

LIMITS In the years after he became full-time director of what he called “DNA Town,” Watson pushed out in many directions. One place he failed was in his hope to ...
( Category: Molecular Biology March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2005-03-03 | Author:McAllister Hull

Still in the Army Those of us who were in the armed forces were not free to leave when the war ended. The demobilization of the Army of the United ...
( Category: Nuclear Physics March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-16 | Author:Leander Kahney

Chapter 9 Cook Fights the Law, and Wins Privacy is another of Cook’s values that has remained high on Apple’s agenda since he took over as CEO. From the earliest ...
( Category: Scientists March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-14 | Author:Steven Weinberg [Weinberg, Steven]

The size of the sea is so vast that the difference between the size of a convoy and the size of a single ship shrinks in comparison almost to insignificance. ...
( Category: Scientists February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-22 | Author:Michael D. Gordin

The illness affecting Austrian higher education was again diagnosed as von Stürgkh, whose hostility to the Jews—in contrast to his Prussian equivalent Friedrich Althoff’s efforts to expand official quotas in ...
( Category: Scientists February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-08 | Author:Allen Esterson & David Cassidy

In his Physics Today paragraph (Walker 1991), Walker follows the quotation “You must continue with your investigation” (from doc. 75) with “we will send it to Wiedemann's Annalen” (from doc. ...
( Category: Scientists February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Lindley

ADDING TO Boltzmann’s woes, the old reversibility objection came up again, in somewhat different form, and from a new corner. The great French mathematician Henri Poincaré had in 1893 proved ...
( Category: Atomic & Nuclear Physics February 27,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2020-02-24 | Author:Steven Levy

* * * • • • EARLY ON, MARK Zuckerberg noticed that Instagram was sharing photos in a new way. Since photo sharing was the most popular feature on Facebook, ...
( Category: Scientists February 26,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Wayne Biddle [Biddle, Wayne]

THE IMMEDIATE PUSH for moving from the Baltic coast to the Harz Mountains was the devastating RAF raid, which did not destroy Peenemünde’s production facilities, but made it clear that ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science February 25,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Hoskin

In Bath William arranged for the disc for the new reflector to be cast from Michell’s metal. William then ground the disc and polished the resulting mirror, presumably in the ...
( Category: Astronomy February 24,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-02-17 | Author:Sigmund Freud

IN THIS EDITION Sigmund Freud: The Ego and The Id. Leipzig/Vienna/Zurich: International Psycho-Analytic Press, 1923. The text remained unchanged in spelling and punctuation, as well as in the form and ...
( Category: Psychoanalysis February 18,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-10-10 | Author:Sarah Dry [Dry, Sarah]

FIG. 5.8. Joanne and Herbert Riehl puzzling over hurricanes, in a cartoon by Margaret LeMone. Note the “real hand-analyzed data” and the big question: “Why are there so few hurricanes?” ...
( Category: Oceanography February 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-31 | Author:John Brockman

9 You Can’t Be a Sweet Cucumber in a Vinegar Barrel Philip Zimbardo Psychologist, Stanford University; Author, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil For years I’ve been ...
( Category: Robotics & Automation February 11,2020 )