Collisions: A Physicist's Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs by Alec Nevala-Lee ISBN 9781324075110, 9781324075103, 1324075112, 1324075104 instant download

Collisions: A Physicist's Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs by Alec Nevala-Lee ISBN 9781324075110, 9781324075103, 1324075112, 1324075104 instant download

From the acclaimed biographer of Buckminster Fuller, a riveting biography of the Nobel Prize–winning physicist who became the greatest scientific detective of the twentieth century.

To his admirers, Luis W. Alvarez was the most accomplished, inventive, and versatile experimental physicist of his generation. During World War II, he achieved major breakthroughs in radar, played a key role in the Manhattan Project, and served as the lead scientific observer at the bombing of Hiroshima. In the decades that followed, he revolutionized particle physics with the hydrogen bubble chamber, developed an innovative X-ray method to search for hidden chambers in the Pyramid of Chephren, and shot melons at a rifle range to test his controversial theory about the Kennedy assassination. At the very end of his life, he collaborated with his son to demonstrate that an asteroid impact was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs, igniting a furious debate that...