Ken Hicks (Department of Physics Professor Emeritus and Astronomy

Gebundenes Buch

Nature's Balancing Act

How Small Quirks of Physics Makes Life Possible

Beschreibung

Do quirks of physics allow life to exist? The book starts with asking

Autor

Ken Hicks is an experimental particle physicist. He has led experiments at accelerator facilities in the U.S. and Japan and has co-authored over 250 scientific journal articles. For 15 years, he wrote an astronomy column for the Columbus Dispatch. Now Professor Emeritus, he taught at Ohio University for 34 years and is currently a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and also served as Secretary-Treasurer for the Division of Nuclear Physics and as Program Director at the National Science Foundation. For fun, he does sprint triathlons.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 159mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9780197771440
• ISBN-10: 0197771440
• Artikelnr.: 72700242