Nobel Lectures in Physics (2006-2010)
Title:
Nobel Lectures in Physics (2006-2010)
Author:
Brink, Lars.
ISBN:
9789814612692
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2014.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (384 pages)
General Note:
2009 Charles Kuen Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith.
Contents:
Preface; CONTENTS; 2006 John C. Mather and George F. Smoot; Presentation by Per Carlson; Biography of John C. Mather; From the Big Bang to the Nobel Prize and Beyond; I. SCIENTIFIC INTRODUCTION; II. MY INTRODUCTION TO COSMOLOGY; III. ORIGINS AND DESIGN OF THE COBE; IV. REBUILDING AND LAUNCHING THE COBE; V. DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION; REFERENCES; APPENDIX -- COBE TEAM MEMBERS ; engineering and management team; Biography of George F. Smoot ; Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Anisotropies: Their Discovery and Utilization; 1 THE COSMIC BACKGROUND RADIATION; 1.1 Introduction.
1.2 Cosmic Background Radiation Rules1.3 Transition to Cosmology; 1.4 Why not seek the Seeds of Galaxy Formation First?; 1.5 Beginning the New Aether Drift Experiment; 1.6 Context; 1.7 Why did we need such a strong team and effort?; 1.8 The DMR and U-2 Observations; 1.9 Polarization of the CMB; 1.10 Balloon-borne Anisotropy at 3-mm Wavelength; 1.11 Spectrum of the CMB; 1.12 The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) Mission; 1.13 COBE Results; 2 FORGING THE STANDARD MODEL OF COSMOLOGY: ACDM; 2.1 The Suborbital CMB experiments; 2.2 Physics from CMB Anisotropy Power Spectrum.
2.2.1 The Geometry of Space Time2.2.2 Acoustic Oscillations; 2.2.3 The Dark Matter and the Baryon Content of the Universe; 2.2.4 Other Cosmological Parameters including Dark Energy, Equation of State; 3 CONCLUDING REMARKS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; 2007 Albert Fert and Peter A. Grünberg; Presentation by Börje Johansson; Biography of Albert Fert; The Origin, Development and Future of Spintronics; OVERVIEW; FROM SPIN DEPENDENT CONDUCTION IN FERROMAGNETS TO GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE; THE GOLDEN AGE OF GMR; CPP-GMR AND SPIN ACCUMULATION PHYSICS.
MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTIONS AND TUNNELLING MAGNETORESISTANCE (TMR)MAGNETIC SWITCHING AND MICROWAVE GENERATION BY SPIN TRANSFER; SPINTRONICS WITH SEMICONDUCTORS AND MOLECULAR SPINTRONICS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Biography of Peter A. Grünberg; REFERENCES; From Spinwaves to Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) and Beyond; DISCOVERY OF LIGHTSCATTERING FROM DAMON ESHBACH SURFACE SPINWAVES; DIPOLAR COUPLED DE MODES IN MAGNETIC DOUBLE LAYERS WITH PARALLEL AND ANTIPARALLEL MAGNETIC ALIGNMENT; DOUBLE LAYER WITH THE INCLUSION OF INTERLAYER EXCHANGE; DISCOVERY OF ANTIFERROMAGNETIC (AF) COUPLING.
DISCOVERY OF GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCEGMR: THE CAMLEY-BARNAS MODEL; CIMS; APPLICATIONS; REFERENCES; 2008 Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa; Presentation by Lars Brink; Biography of Yoichiro Nambu; Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Particle Physics: A Case of Cross Fertilization; REFERENCES; Biography of Makoto Kobayashi; CP Violation and Flavour Mixing; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. SAKATA SCHOOL; 3. SIX-QUARK MODEL; 4. EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION AT B-FACTORIES; 5. LEPTON FLAVOUR MIXING; REFERENCES; Biography of Toshihide Maskawa; What does CP Violation Tell Us?; REFERENCES.
Abstract:
This volume is a collection of the Nobel lectures delivered by the prizewinners, together with their biographies and the presentation speeches by Nobel Committee members for the period 2006-2010. The criterion for the Physics award is to the discoverer of a physical phenomenon that changed our views, or to the inventor of a new physical process that gave enormous benefits to either science at large or to the public. The biographies are remarkably interesting to read and the Nobel lectures provide detailed explanations of the phenomena for which the Laureates were awarded the Nobel Prize. Aspir.
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