Discovering Alvarez
Subtitle: Selected Works of Luis W. Alvarez with Commentary by His Students and Colleagues
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: December 30, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780226813042
Subjects: Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Science/Mathematics; PHYSICS; Science / Physics; Nuclear Physics
First sentence: When I started to teach physics and astronomy at Rutgers University in 1937, using a broken phonograph record to measure the wavelength of light was part of our heritage.