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He is known for his work on the manhattan project during world war ii, and for his later work in quantum physics, nuclear physics and high energy astrophysics a graduate of carnegie tech, morrison became interested in physics, which he studied at the university. How much the public knows about science, and why it matters. The amateur scientist column in scientific american, when it was alive and well under the leadership of c. Scientists, engineers and health professionals can bring our collective knowledge to bear on. Spaceshots and shapshots of projects mercury and gemini. Now you can get all of these incredible columns, plus thousands of pages of supplementary material on one fullysearchable cdrom.
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In 1895, wilhelm conrad roentgens discovery of xrays in this laboratory revolutionized science and medicine but did you know that xrays may have been produced by william morgan, a welsh mathematician, more than a century before roentgens discovery. Mentioned in the book, incidentally, is albrecht durers magic square, which was featured in a 2012 american scientist article. Description reproduced illustrations by roger hayward as published in the scientific american book of projects for the amateur scientist, by c. Philip morrison november 7, 1915 april 22, 2005 was a professor of physics at the massachusetts institute of technology mit.
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