Einstein's refrigerator
Subtitle: tales of the hot and cold
By: Gino Segrè
Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780713994452
Subjects: Temperature; Popular works; Cosmology; Temperatuur; Kosmologie; Thermodynamica
Work titles: Matter of degrees
Notes: Originally published as: A matter of degrees. New York : Viking Penguin, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The ruler, the clock and the thermometer; title: 1. 37 (Constant temperature ; Into the Sahara ; Into the Antarctic ; When things go wrong ; Shocks from heat); title: 2. Measure for measure (The first sparks ; The thermometer's four inventors ; The Count from Massachusetts ; Steam power ; Thermodynamics' three laws ; Entropy and life); title: 3. Reading the Earth (Copernicus's harmony ; The minister, the lawyer and the fosil fish expert ; Cycles of ice ; The tundra's blossom ; El Niňo, old and new ; Greenhouse effect: the basic science ; Greehouse effect: the history ; Greenhouse effect: the politics); title: 4. Life in the extremes (Barton and Beebe's bathysphere ; Clambake I: hydrothermal vents ; Some like it hot ; Snowball Earth ; The third branch of life ; Melting the Earth ; Extraterrestrial life ; Life under two miles of ice); title: 5. Messages from the Sun (At the core ; Cosmic gall ; A thermal aside: Gamow, Rutherford and nuclear barriers ; A star is born ; Black holes and little green men ; The founding elements: hydrogen and helium ; Three-degree photons, two-degree neutrinos ; The Big Bang and the Big Crunch); title: 6. The quantum leap (Faraday's perfect gases ; The last liquid ; Superconductivity ; Duality, exclusion, and uncertainty ; The low-temperature world ; Einstein's refrigerator ; Chandra's journey ; Into the future)