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Science Sketches: The Universe from Different Angles de Sidney Perkowitz

Science Sketches: The Universe from Different Angles

Autor Sidney Perkowitz
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 mar 2022
This book is the second collection of over 50 articles and essays authored by Sidney Perkowitz. Appearing in diverse outlets such as Discover, Washington Post, Aeon, Los Angeles Review of Books, Nautilus, Museum of the Moving Image, and Physics World, they represent the best of his writing about science and technology, and their links to culture and society, the arts and the media, and the humanities. Written for general readers, the pieces explore the outer and inner universes from cosmic space to the human mind, from the artistic use of science to the impact of technology and AI in the justice system, in medicine, and in dealing with COVID-19.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789814877947
ISBN-10: 9814877948
Pagini: 324
Ilustrații: 2 Tables, black and white; 6 Halftones, color; 1 Halftones, black and white; 6 Illustrations, color; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Jenny Stanford Publishing
Colecția Jenny Stanford Publishing

Notă biografică

Sidney Perkowitz was born in New York City, attended college at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (now the NYU Tandon School of Engineering), and earned his doctorate in physics at the University of Pennsylvania. As Charles Howard Candler Professor of Physics at Emory University, he produced over 100 research papers and books. As Professor Emeritus, he has presented science for non-scientists in books (Empire of Light, Universal Foam and Universal Foam 2.0, Digital People, Hollywood Science, Slow Light, Hollywood Chemistry, Frankenstein: How a Monster Became an Icon, and Real Scientists Don’t Wear Ties) that have been translated into seven languages and Braille; over 200 articles and book chapters in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New Scientist, Leonardo, Discover, Physics World, Encyclopedia Britannica, Aeon, Quo, Los Angeles Review of Books, JSTOR Daily, James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction, and elsewhere; and theatrical works produced in Atlanta, New York, and Chicago. He has appeared on CNN, NPR, the BBC, and other outlets, and venues such as NASA, Microsoft, the American Museum of Natural History, the High Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Atlanta Science Festival, and various café scientifiques, to discuss topics from science in the media to the science of food. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 2015, received a lifetime achievement award from the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts.
http://sidneyperkowitz.net/, @physp

Cuprins

Looking at Nature Without and Within  Doing the Math  Four Scientists and a Quest  Technology in Society  Science, Fiction, and Art

Descriere

This book is the second collection of over 50 articles and essays authored by Sidney Perkowitz.