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[quote]Synopsis:

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 and radium were 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:

United Kingdom

The Whipple Museum and Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge Brian Pippard Pippard,

Brian 1

Scientific Travels in the Irish Countryside Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr.

Greenslade, Thomas B., Jr. 7

Physics in Edinburgh: From Napier's Bones to Higgs's Boson John Henry Henry,

John 21

Denmark

Historical Sites of Physical Science in Copenhagen Felicity Pors Pors,

Felicity Finn Aaserud Aaserud, Finn 55

France

A Parisian Walk along the Landmarks of the Discovery of Radioactivity Ginette

Gablot Gablot, Ginette 73

Germany

Physics in Berlin I:The Historical City left Dieter Hoffmann Hoffmann,

Dieter 81

Physics in Berlin II: Through the Western Part of the City: Charlottenburg

Dieter Hoffmann Hoffmann, Dieter .91

Some Historical Points of Interest in Gottingen Klaus Hentschel Hentschel,

Klaus 111

Switzerland

Peripatetic Highlights in Bern Ann M. Hentschel Hentschel, Ann M. 121

Austria

Vienna: A Random Walk in Science Wolfgang L. Reiter Reiter, Wolfgang L. 145

Hungary

Budapest: A Random Walk in Science and Culture Laszlo Kovacs, Sr Kovacs,

Laszlo, Sr 175

United States

Physics and New York City Benjamin Bederson Bederson, Benjamin 215

Product Details:

* ISBN: 376438932X

* ISBN-13: 9783764389321

* Format: Hardcover, 249pp

* Publisher: Birkhauser Basel

* Pub. Date: December 2008

* Edition Number: 1

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