History of science

A través de una serie de cortos capítulos ilustrados, Una gloria silenciosa recapitula y presenta los aportes a las ciencias experimentales con significación universal efectuados en nuestro país.

"Un gobierno latinoamericano puede lanzar a su maquinaria diplomática al rescate de un militar acusado de torturador o genocida, que de pronto es atrapado en una visita cándida a Europa, o fletar un avión para regresarlo a su patria, pero no hace absolutamente nada para repatriar (y emplear) a miles de sus científicos exiliados en el Primer Mundo.

'Professor Hao Bailin is one of China's most talented and most versatile theoretical physicists.

This unique volume contains a tribute to Lord Patrick M S Blackett through the testimony of Professor Antonino Zichichi, who was one of Blackett's pupils in the experiment at the Sphinx Observatory, Europe's highest lab (3580 meters a.

In the year 2015, 100 years after Fred Hoyle was born, the ideas relating to the cosmic origins of life are slowly gaining credence in scientific circles.

Distinguished historian Benjamin A Elman's collective volume on the history of science in imperial China, brings together over 30 years of historical literature on the subject.

This book tells captivating stories of misadventures of two renowned theoretical physicists in the Soviet Union.

In this engaging scientific memoir, Kenneth Ford recounts the time when, in his mid-twenties, he was a member of the team that designed and built the first hydrogen bomb.

Narrating the well-lived life of the "e;Chinese Madame Curie"e; - a recipient of the first Wolf Prize in Physics (1978), the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from Princeton University, as well as the first female president of the American Physical Society - this book provides a comprehensive and honest account of the life of Dr Wu Chien-Shiung, an outstanding and leading experimental physicist of the 20th century.

On July 17, 2012, the centenary of Henri Poincare's death was commemorated; his name being associated with so many fields of knowledge that he was considered as the Last Universalist.

An international panel of speakers trace the progress of human genetics from its beginning to the present day, in various communities in different countries.

The Hindu-Arabic numeral system (1, 2, 3, .

This conference celebrated the discovery of neutral currents in neutrino interactions twenty years ago.

In 1992, students of Bert Green and Angas Hurst conceived the idea of a meeting to commemorate their contributions to Mathematical Physics and to celebrate their passing the milestone of three score years and ten.

This is the 1st China's Science Yearbook published since 1949.

This review volume consists of articles by outstanding scientists who explore Archimedes' influence on the development of mathematics, particularly on Geometry, Analysis and Mechanics.

This book is a contemporary review of selected subjects in liquid chromatography, especially of the technical development, rather than the applications.

The discovery of Electron Paramagnetic Resonance is one of the outstanding events in Physics of the 20th Century.

Newtonian scholarship has taken great steps forward in the last half-century.

The Natural History of the Doucs and Snub-nosed Monkeys provides a comprehensive introduction to the biology of some of the rarest and least-known nonhuman primates.

This invaluable volume is dedicated to the memory of Yuri Golfand, one of the discoverers of supersymmetry.

This invaluable book takes the reader from Planck's discovery of the quantum in 1900 to the most recent interpretations and applications of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics.

Aimed at scientists and non-specialised readers alike, this book retraces the source of national and international biotechnology programmes by examining the origins of biotechnology and its political and economic interpretation by large nations.

This important volume describes the wide-ranging scientific activities of Leon Van Hove, through commentaries by his colleagues and a selection of his most influential papers and documents.

The unity of science has been a widely discussed issue both in the philosophy of science and within several sciences.

The story of the discovery of supersymmetry is a fascinating one, unlike that of any other major development in the history of science.

In October 1998 a conference was held in Lisbon to celebrate Ludwig Streit's 60th birthday.

Edward A Bouchet was the first African-American to receive the doctorate in any field of knowledge in the United States and that area was physics.

Since antiquity, technology has tried to either control or imitate nature.

Historical Perspectives on East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine brings together over fifty papers by leading contemporary historians from more than a dozen nations.

The Spirit of Russian Science comprises dozens of short and funny true stories about the relations between people working in science, the ways people of science interacted, and their attitudes towards life.

Grasping Reality addresses the methodology of a sophisticated realistic approach to scientific as well as everyday recognition by using schemes and interpretative constructs to analyze theories and the practice of recognition from a hypothesis-realistic vantage point.

This book is not just a conference proceedings covering the full spectrum of physics disciplines.

Mindsteps to the Cosmos shows how modern global civilization depends on giant leaps of understanding that have been made in the past.

Complexity has become a central topic in certain sectors of theoretical physics and chemistry (for example, in connection with nonlinearity and deterministic chaos).

The 20th Century has been called the Century of Physics.

This scientific biography of Douglas R Hartree not only describes important events in his life but also outlines his contributions to a number of fields.

Those who survive major earthquakes often report the occurrence of mysterious phenomena beforehand - unusual animal and plant behavior, lightning, strange clouds and malfunctioning electrical appliances.

The Hindu-Arabic numeral system (1, 2, 3,.

During World War II, nations raced to construct the world's first nuclear weapon that would determine the future of the world.

This book explores the interaction between Europe and East Asia between the 16th and the 18th centuries in the field of mathematical sciences, bringing to the fore the role of Portugal as an agent of transmission of European science to East Asia.

For the past 20 years, the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) has been at the forefront of efforts to promote science and science-based developments in the developing world.

This is the story of the author's unique scientific journey with one of the most remarkable men of 20th century science.

Now that the sale of a Picasso painting has exceeded US$100 million at auction, the forgers are extricating their bag of tricks.

Mesopotamian mathematics is known from a great number of cuneiform texts, most of them Old Babylonian, some Late Babylonian or pre-Old-Babylonian, and has been intensively studied during the last couple of decades.

This fascinating book presents the unusual career of a scientist of Chinese Malaysian origin, Ho Peng Yoke, who became a humanist and rendered his services to both Eastern and Western intellectual worlds.

This is the inaugural volume of a new book series entitled The Road to Scientific Success: Inspiring Life Stories of Prominent Researchers.

This edition of the private and scientific correspondence of Sir Rudolf Peierls gives a unique insight into the life and work of one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the 20th century.

More than 100 years ago, in 1905, Walther Nernst discovered the Third Law of Thermodynamics, thus completing this fundamental theory.