Visions of the Future: Physics and Electronics - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521805384 ISBN 13: 9780521805384

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Leading young scientists, many holding prestigious Royal Society Research Fellowships, describe their research and give their visions of the future. Re-written in a popular and well illustrated style, the articles are derived from scholarly and authoritative papers published in a special Millennium Issue of the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions (used by Newton, this is the world's longest running scientific journal). Carefully selected by the journal's editor, Professor J. M. T. Thompson FRS, topics include quantum physics and its relation to relativity theory and human consciousness; electronics for the future; exotic quantum computing and data storage; telecommunications and the internet. The book conveys the excitement and enthusiasm of the young authors for their work in Physics and Electronics. Two companion books cover Astronomy and Earth Science, and Chemistry and Life Science. All are definitive reviews for anyone with a general interest in the future directions of science.

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About the Author

Michael Thompson is currently Editor of the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions (Series A). He graduated from Cambridge with first class honours in Mechanical Sciences in 1958, and obtained his PhD in 1962, his ScD in 1977. He was a Fulbright researcher in aeronautics at Stanford University, and joined University College London in 1964. He has published four books on instabilities, bifurcations, catastrophe theory and chaos, and was appointed Professor at UCL in 1977. Michael was elected FRS in 1985, and was awarded the Ewing Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He was a Senior SERC Fellow and served on the IMA Council. In 1991 he was appointed Director of the Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521805384
• ISBN 13: 9780521805384
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 222
• Editor: Thompson J. M. T.