超越居里：1903年至1963年物理界四位女性及其著名发现（英文）
定 价：68 元
丛书名：国外优秀物理著作原版系列
- 作者： [美] 斯科特·卡尔文（Scott Calvin） 著
- 出版时间：2021/6/1
- ISBN：9787560394091
- 出 版 社：哈尔滨工业大学出版社
- 中图法分类：K816.1
- 页码：
- 纸张：胶版纸
- 版次：1
- 开本：16开
本书是一部引进版的科学家传记。
本书的作者是斯科特·卡尔文（Scott Calvin）博士，他曾在加州大学伯克利分校学习天文学和物理学，辅修古典文学，之后获得了纽约城市大学的化学物理学博士学位，他曾在不同的机构教学、研究，并为不同领域的学生提供建议，这些机构包括海军研究实验室、布鲁克海文国家实验室、海顿天文馆、斯坦福同步辐射实验室、萨拉劳伦斯学院和雷曼学院，他教授的课程范围很广，包括创新课程，例如“物理学的疯狂想法”“火箭科学”和“蒸汽朋克物理学”。他的著作包括《我们能做到！一般物理学图解小说指南》《每个人的XAFS》，以及公开资源的手工立体书。
First and foremost， I want to acknowledge my fianc6e Erin Eisenbarth， who came up with the idea for the book and has watched me wrestle with it all the way along. She is a historian， and I am a physicist， and I found her insights on how to do historical research invaluable. On ~casion， I asked her to comment on sections or help me understand some thorny historical problem; at other times， she would encourage me not to allow myself to be too distracted with minutiae far removed from the main narrative. While I don't have the same kind of expertise to offer her as she completes her own dissertation， I hope I can at least help her in return by cooking us dinner， and perhaps baking the occasional batch of brownies， as she reaches crunch time in her own project.
I'd also like to acknowledge several former students of mine， each of whom is now a scholar in her own right： Jing Min Chia， who performed much of the investigation of Mayer's time at Sarah Lawrence， working with Abby Lester， the superb arcluvist at Sarah Lawrence College; Kristen Koopman， who invited me to Virguua Tech to give a seminar based on my preliminary work on the chapter on Cecilia Payne; and the historian of science Dr Kelly O'Donnell， who provided me valuable feedback on that same chapter.
One thing I have discovered about this process is that writing about history is hard. The historical record is full of apparent contradictions; modern writings often get taken in by legends that have grown up over time， or misinterpret key pieces of evidence. While I have uncovered a few instances where that has occurred， I am sure I have fallen prey to other misconceptions， and likely created a few new misinterpretations of my own. I look forward to hearing from readers who know better about one point or another， and themselves want to set the record straight.
Scott Calvin，With a major in astronomy and physics and a minor in classics from the University of California Berkeley, followed by a PhD in chemical physics from the City University of New York, Dr Calvin has taught, conducted research, and advised students in a wide variety of institutions, including the Naval Research Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Hayden Planetarium, the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Sarah Lawrence College, Examkrackers, and Lehman College. His course offerings have run the gamut, including innovative courses such as Crazy Ideas in Physics, Rocket Science, and Steampunk Physics, as have his books, including We Can Do It！ A Problem Solwng Graphic Novel Guide for General Physics, XAFS for Everyone, and the open-source artisanal pop-up book National Synchrotron Light Source H： Long Island's State of the Art X-Ray Microscope.
Acknowledgments
Author biography
1 Introduction
1．1 Why am I writing this book?
1．2 An essential tension
1．3 A few words on names
2 Cecilia Payne
2．1 Beyond Curie
2．2 No insuperable objections
2．3 The Harvard Computers
2．4 Starstuff
2．5 Two astronomers from Cambridge
2．6 Reactions
2．7 Blocked paths
2．8 Love （of science） levels all ranks
2．9 Science summary： stellar spectra
References
3 Lise Meitner
3．1 Making up for lost time
3．2 Questions of credit
3．3 A scientiric powerhouse
3．4 Tumult
3．5 How Nobel Prizes are selected
3．6 Beyond uranium
3．7 The breakdown of science
3．8 Our Madame Curie
3．9 Science summary： nuclear fission
References
4 Chien-Shiung Wu
4．1 Mighty hero
4．2 Exile
4．3 Pushing back
4．4 Rising through the ranks
4．5 'Wasting her time'
4．6 Instant Nobel
4．7 Honors
4．8 Science summary： parity
References
5 Maria Mayer
5．1 The seventh generation
5．2 From nuisance to necessary
5．3 A new era
5．4 Magic
5．5 A different way to win a race
5．6 Quarterloafs
5．7 A typical genius
5．8 Science summary： nuclear shell model
References
6 Afterword
编辑手记
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