{"title":"Gonzo History","authors":"Robert P. Crease, Joseph D. Martin, Peter Pesic","doi":"10.1007/s00016-017-0201-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-017-0201-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":727,"journal":{"name":"Physics in Perspective","volume":"19 2","pages":"89 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s00016-017-0201-z","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"5128862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between the Lines: A First-Person Account of Berkeley’s Loss of Fermilab","authors":"Catherine Westfall","doi":"10.1007/s00016-017-0199-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-017-0199-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":727,"journal":{"name":"Physics in Perspective","volume":"19 2","pages":"91 - 104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s00016-017-0199-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"5128863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Immigrant Physics","authors":"Robert P. Crease, Joseph D. Martin, Peter Pesic","doi":"10.1007/s00016-017-0198-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-017-0198-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":727,"journal":{"name":"Physics in Perspective","volume":"19 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s00016-017-0198-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4193010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Arthur E. Haas, His Life and Cosmologies","authors":"Michael Wiescher","doi":"10.1007/s00016-017-0197-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-017-0197-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper describes the life and scientific development of Arthur E. Haas, from his early career as young, ambitious Jewish-Austrian scientist at the University of Vienna to his later career in exile at the University of Notre Dame. Haas is known for his early contributions to quantum physics and as the author of several textbooks on topics of modern physics. During the last decade of his life, he turned his attention to cosmology. In 1935 he emigrated from Austria to the United States. There he assumed, on recommendation of Albert Einstein, a faculty position at the University of Notre Dame. He continued his work on cosmology and tried to establish relationships between the mass of the universe and the fundamental cosmological constants to develop concepts for the early universe. Together with Georges Lema?tre he organized in 1938 the first international conference on cosmology, which drew more than one hundred attendants to Notre Dame. Haas died in February 1941 after suffering a stroke during a visit in Chicago.</p>","PeriodicalId":727,"journal":{"name":"Physics in Perspective","volume":"19 1","pages":"3 - 59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s00016-017-0197-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4197042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Ortega-Rodríguez, H. Solís-Sánchez, E. Boza-Oviedo, K. Chaves-Cruz, M. Guevara-Bertsch, M. Quirós-Rojas, S. Vargas-Hernández, A. Venegas-Li
{"title":"The Early Scientific Contributions of J. Robert Oppenheimer: Why Did the Scientific Community Miss the Black Hole Opportunity?","authors":"M. Ortega-Rodríguez, H. Solís-Sánchez, E. Boza-Oviedo, K. Chaves-Cruz, M. Guevara-Bertsch, M. Quirós-Rojas, S. Vargas-Hernández, A. Venegas-Li","doi":"10.1007/s00016-017-0195-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-017-0195-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We assess the scientific value of Oppenheimer’s research on black holes in order to explain its neglect by the scientific community, and even by Oppenheimer himself. Looking closely at the scientific culture and conceptual belief system of the 1930s, the present article seeks to supplement the existing literature by enriching the explanations and complicating the guiding questions. We suggest a rereading of Oppenheimer as a figure both more intriguing for the history of astrophysics and further ahead of his time than is commonly supposed.</p>","PeriodicalId":727,"journal":{"name":"Physics in Perspective","volume":"19 1","pages":"60 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s00016-017-0195-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4394231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"E-36: The First Proto-Megascience Experiment at NAL","authors":"Vitaly S. Pronskikh","doi":"10.1007/s00016-016-0192-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-016-0192-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>E-36, an experiment on small-angle proton-proton scattering, began testing equipment at the National Accelerator Laboratory (NAL) using a newly achieved 100 GeV proton beam on February 12, 1972, marking the beginning of NAL’s experimental program. This experiment, which drew collaborators from NAL, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna, USSR), the University of Rochester (Rochester, New York), and Rockefeller University (New York, New York) was significant not only as a milestone in Fermilab’s history but also as a model of cooperation between the East and West at a time when Cold War tensions still ran high. An examination of the origin, operation, and resolution of E-36 and the chain of experiments it spawned reveals the complex interplay of science and politics that drove these experiments as well as seeds of the megascience paradigm that has come to dominate high energy physics research since the 1970s.</p>","PeriodicalId":727,"journal":{"name":"Physics in Perspective","volume":"18 4","pages":"357 - 378"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2016-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s00016-016-0192-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4137119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Amazonia Introduced to General Relativity: The May 29, 1919, Solar Eclipse from a North-Brazilian Point of View","authors":"Luís C. B. Crispino, Marcelo C. de Lima","doi":"10.1007/s00016-016-0190-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-016-0190-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In 1919, A. C. D. Crommelin and C. R. Davidson, British astronomers from the Greenwich Observatory in England, passed by Amazonia on their Brazilian journey aiming to measure the bending of stars' light rays during the total solar eclipse of May 29, 1919, and thereby put the theory of general relativity to the test. In the context of Crommelin’s and Davidson’s visit, we discuss how Amazonia was introduced to Einstein’s theory of gravitation, and also the observations and repercussions of the May 29, 1919, solar eclipse in Belém, capital city of the North-Brazilian Pará state.</p>","PeriodicalId":727,"journal":{"name":"Physics in Perspective","volume":"18 4","pages":"379 - 394"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s00016-016-0190-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4061488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Desire to Data: How JLab’s Experimental Program Evolved","authors":"Catherine Westfall","doi":"10.1007/s00016-016-0189-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-016-0189-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This is the first in a three-part article describing the development of the experimental program at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, from the first dreams of incisive electromagnetic probes into the structure of the nucleus through the era in which equipment was designed and constructed and a program crafted so that the long-desired experiments could begin. Part 1, which is presented here, focuses on how the scientific and technical work of previous decades inspired physicists in the 1970s to develop and launch plans for the necessary accelerators and experimental equipment for such probes. This effort required devising an initial wish list of experiments and working with the Department of Energy (DOE) and expert advisory committees to choose the best accelerator plan so that a laboratory design report could be produced in 1986. DOE approval of this report then opened the way for the construction of a 4?GeV continuous wave, superconducting radiofrequency accelerator at a new laboratory in Newport News, Virginia. Along the way those struggling to make experimental dreams come true faced many challenges, including the rise of the more bureaucratic New Big Science and the intellectual revolution that resulted from new understanding about quark-level physics.</p>","PeriodicalId":727,"journal":{"name":"Physics in Perspective","volume":"18 3","pages":"301 - 350"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2016-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s00016-016-0189-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4958913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Einstein Did Not Discover","authors":"John D. Norton","doi":"10.1007/s00016-016-0186-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-016-0186-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>What powered Einstein’s discoveries? Was it asking na?ve questions, stubbornly? Was it a mischievous urge to break rules? Was it the destructive power of operational thinking? It was none of these. Rather, Einstein made his discoveries through lengthy, mundane investigations, pursued with tenacity and discipline. We have been led to think otherwise in part through Einstein’s brilliance at recounting in beguilingly simple terms a few brief moments of transcendent insight, and in part through our need to find a simple trick underlying his achievements. These ideas are illustrated with the examples of Einstein’s 1905 discoveries of special relativity and the light quantum.</p>","PeriodicalId":727,"journal":{"name":"Physics in Perspective","volume":"18 3","pages":"249 - 282"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2016-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s00016-016-0186-z","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4419081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}