遙遠之光:科學家和公共政策 A Distant Light : Scientists and Public Policy

基本信息/Product Details

Format Paperback | 318 pages

Dimensions 155 x 235 x 17.78mm | 516g

Publication date 12 Sep 2012

Publisher Springer-Verlag New York Inc.

Language English

Illustrations note XIV, 318 p. 66 illus.

ISBN10 1461264235

ISBN13 9781461264231

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

書籍簡介/Book Deion

諾貝爾獎獲得者的論文集，內容涉及世界面臨的各種問題，以及科學家在解決這些問題中的作用。肯德爾是創建憂思科學家聯盟（UCS）的一羣物理學家之一，目前是該聯盟的董事會主席。今天，UCS是美國政府科學政策中的一個權威聲音，特別是在環境問題上。這些文章共同代表了科學在影響公共政策方面的成功和失敗，併為參與科學政策提供了實用指南。這些文章大致按時間順序排列，按主題進行介紹，一開始是關於核電安全和三裏島的爭議，然後是關於國家安全問題、全球環境和資源問題以及放射性物質清理的章節。肯德爾的諾貝爾獎演講也包括在內（這也是書中真正的技術材料），而照片則來自1992年的他的作品展覽。

A collection of essays by a Nobel Prize Laureate on a wide range of problems facing the world, and the role of scientists in solving them. Kendall was one of a group of physicists who founded the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and is currently chairman of its board of directors. UCS is today a voice of authority in US government science policy, particularly with regard to environment issues. Together, these essays represent both the successes and failures of science to impact public policy, and offer practical guidelines for involvement in science policy. They are roughly chronological, organised by subject with introductions, beginning with the controversies on nuclear power safety and Three Mile Island, then followed by sections on national security issues, global environmental and resource problems, and radioactive cleanup. Kendall's Nobel Prize lecture is also included (and is the only really technical material in the book), while the photos are from a 1992 exhibition of his work.

目錄/Table of contents

Beyond March 4.- One Nuclear Power.- Press Release: Nuclear Power.- Nuclear Reactor Safety: An Evaluation of New Evidence.- Cooling Water.- Nuclear Safety.- The Failure of Nuclear Power.- Two Science.- Structure of the Proton and the Neutron.- Deep Inelastic Scattering: Experiments on the Proton and the Observation of Scaling.- Three National Security and Nuclear Weapons.- News Release: Announcing Declaration on the Nuclear Arms Race.- Declaration on the Nuclear Arms Race.- Spaced-Based Ballistic Missile Defense.- The Fallacy of Star Wars.- Accidental Nuclear War.- Dismantle Armageddon.- Four Global Environmental and Resource Issues.- Appeal by American Scientists to Prevent Global Warming.- Speech to the United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee.- Press Release: Announcing World Scientists' Warning to Humanity.- World Scientists' Warning to Humanity.- Constraints on the Expansion of the Global Food Supply.- Meeting Population, Environment and Resource Challenges: The Costs of Inaction.- Bioengineering of Crops.- Five Cleanup of Radioactive Contamination.- Alternative Futures for the Department of Energy National Laboratories.- Six Current Issues.- Quenching the Wild Wells of Kuwait.- Post-Conflict Mine Clearing.- 10.1007/978-1-4419-8507-1_26.- 305.

作者簡介/Author

亨利·韋·肯德爾（1926年12月9日-1999年2月15日）是美國粒子物理學家，1990年與傑羅姆·艾薩克·弗裏德曼和理查德·E·泰勒共同獲得諾貝爾物理學獎，"因為他們對電子在質子和束縛中子上的深度非彈性散射的研究具有開創性，這對粒子物理學中夸克模型的發展至關重要。“

Henry Way Kendall (December 9, 1926 – February 15, 1999) was an American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 jointly with Jerome Isaac Friedman and Richard E. Taylor "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics. been described as one of The Martians.