The Physical Tourist
A Science Guide for the Traveler
Editors: Rigden, John S., Stuewer, Roger H (Eds.)
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- Details where famous scientists lived, worked, and where important discoveries were made
- Allows tourists to easily add science to their sightseeing and enrich their understanding and appreciation for the city
- A wonderful gift for all, especially those interested in physics or general science
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Typical travel guides have sections on architecture, art, literature, music and cinema. Rarely are any science-related sites identified. For example, a current travel guide for Germany contains one tidbit on science: Einstein is identified as the most famous citizen of Ulm. By contrast, this travel guide walks a tourist through Berlin and identifies where Max Planck started the quantum revolution, where Einstein lived and gave his early talks on general relativity, and where, across the street, Einstein’s books were burned by the Nazis. Or, if you are walking in Paris, this guide tells you where radioactivity was discovered and where radium was discovered. Scientific discoveries of the past, like art of the past, has shaped life in the 21st century. From this travel guide, a tourist will learn what other guides leave out.
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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The Whipple Museum and Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
Pages 1-5
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Scientific Travels in the Irish Countryside
Pages 7-20
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Physics in Edinburgh: From Napier’s Bones to Higgs’s Boson
Pages 21-54
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Historical Sites of Physical Science in Copenhagen
Pages 55-72
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A Parisian Walk along the Landmarks of the Discovery of Radioactivity
Pages 73-80
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Physical Tourist
- Book Subtitle
- A Science Guide for the Traveler
- Editors
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- John S. Rigden
- Roger H Stuewer
- Copyright
- 2009
- Publisher
- Birkhäuser Basel
- Copyright Holder
- Birkhäuser Basel
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-7643-8933-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-7643-8933-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-7643-8932-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 251
- Topics
