To all four of us, Carsten was the best possible friend and colleague. To Finn, he was a fellow student in the history of science for several years at the Niels Bohr Institute; to Relge, he was a welcome resource for personal and intellectual interac tion in an otherwise less than fertile environment for the history of science; Roger was Carsten's friend and advisor, not least in the development of the dissertation on which the present book is based; and as director of the Niels Bohr Archive, Erik was his main advisor in his historical work. Because he was the person closest to Carsten's work on his Ph. D. dissertation on the history of beta decay, on which the present book is based, it is only fitting that Erik stands as single author of the words in Carsten's memory at the very beginning of this book. Before his untimely death shortly after the completion of the Ph. D. disser tation, Carsten had himself plans to develop the dissertation into a book. Being a true perfectionist, he wanted to rework the manuscript substantively, especially with regard to relating it to the broader discussion among historians of science.
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.1999

Geodynamics Of Lithospere & Earth's Mantle: Seismic Anisotropy As A Record Of The Past And Present Dynamic Processes Geodynamics Of Lithosphere And Earth's Mantle

Geodynamics of Lithospere & Earth's Mantle: Seismic Anisotropy As a Record of the Past and Present Dynamic Processes (Pageoph Topical Volumes)

GEODYNAMICS OF LITHOSPHERE&EARTH IS MANTLE

edited by Jaroslava Plomerová, Robert C. Liebermann, Vladislav Babuška

Jaroslava Plomerova, R. C. Liebermann, Vladislav Babuska

Carsten Jensen; editors, Finn Aaserud ... [et al.]

Jensen, Carsten, 1948-1990; Aaserud, Finn

Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint : Birkhäuser

Basel ; Boston, Mass.: Birkhäuser Verlag

Birkhäuser Boston

Birkhäuser GmbH

Springer Basel

Science networks historical studies -- v. 24, Basel, Boston, Mass, Switzerland, 2000

Pageoph topical volumes, Boston, Massachusetts, 2000

United States, United States of America

Pageoph topical volumes, Boston, 1998

1 edition, December 13, 2002

2000, 1999/12/01

Germany, Germany

June 1998

Includes bibliographical references and index

"Derived mainly from papers presented at an international workshop ... held on July 8-13, 1996 at the Chateau of Třeštʼ in the Czech Republic"--Pref.
"Reprint from Pageoph (PAGEOPH), volume 151 (1998), no. 2/3/4"--T.p. verso.

Geodynamics Of Lithosphere And Earth's Mantle : Seismic Anisotropy And A Record Of The Past And Present Dynamic Processes -- Where Can Seismic Anisotropy Be Detected In The Earth's Mantle? In Boundary Layers .. -- Age-dependent Large-scale Fabric Of The Mantle Lithosphere As Derived From Surface-wave Velocity Anisotropy -- On Presence Of Seismic Anisotropy In The Asthenosphere Beneath Continents And Its Dependence On Plate Velocity : Significance Of Reference Frame Selection -- Backazimuthal Variations Of Splitting Parameters Of Teleseismic Sks Phases Observed At The Broadband Stations In Germany -- Anisotropic Measurements In The Rhinegraben Area And The French Massif Central : Geodynamic Implications -- Seismic Anisotropy And Velocity Variations In The Mantle Beneath The Saxothuringicum-moldanubicum Contact In Central Europe -- Anisotropy Beneath The Iberian Peninsula : The Contribution Of The Iliha-nars Broad-band Experiment --^ Variation Of Shear-wave Residuals And Splitting Parameters From Array Observations In Southern Tibet -- Upper Mantle Anisotropy In Victoria Land (antarctica) -- Anisotropy Of The Yellowstone Hot Spot Wake, Eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho -- Anisotropy And Flow In Pacific Subduction Zone Back-arcs -- Passive Seismology And Deep Structure In Central Italy -- Pn Anisotropy In The Northern Appenine Chain (italy) -- New Perspectives On Mantle Dynamics From High-resolution Seiemic Tomographic Model P1200 -- Regional Correlation Analysis Between Seismic Heterogeneity In The Lower Mantle And Subduction In The Last 180 Myr : Implications For Mantle Dynamics And Rheology -- Velocity And Density Heterogeneities Of The Tien-shan Lithosphere -- Large-scale 3-d Gravity Analysis Of The Inhomogeneities In The European-mediterranean Upper Mantle -- Seismic Anisotropy In The Deep Mantle, Boundary Layers And The Geometry Of Mantle Convection --^ Experimental Studies Of Shear Deformation Of Mantle Materials : Towards Structural Geology Of The Mantle -- Free Energy Minimization By Simulated Annealing With Applications To Lithospheric Slabs And Mantle Plumes -- Laboratory Approach To The Study Of Elastic Anisotropy On Rock Samples -- Elastic Parameters Of West Bohemian Granites Under Hydrostatic Pressure -- Inferring The Orientation-distribution Function From Observed Seismic Anisotropy : General Considerations And An Inversion Of Surface-wave Dispersion Curves -- P-sh Conversions In Layered Media With Hexagonally Symmetric Anisotropy : A Cookbook -- Weak Contrast Pp Wave Displacement R/t Coefficients In Weakly Anisotropic Elastic Media Edited By Jaroslava Plomerová, Robert C. Liebermann, Vladislav Babuška. Derived Mainly From Papers Presented At An International Workshop ... Held On July 8-13, 1996 At The Chateau Of Třeštʾ In The Czech Republic--pref. Reprint From Pageoph (pageoph), Volume 151 (1998), No. 2/3/4--t.p. Verso.

"The book describes in detail the considerable efforts by theoretical and experimental physicists to understand the beta spectra of atomic nuclei. After a brief prehistory, the main narrative spans the period from 1911, when Rutherford and collaborators in Manchester established that the atom had an extremely massive nucleus, until 1934, when the question of beta decay was settled theoretically by Fermi and others. It includes prominently the intense controversy over several years between Lise Meitner from Germany and C.D. Ellis from England about the origin of beta rays."--Jacket

xv, 217 p. : 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index

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