The Infancy of Particle Accelerators Life and Work of Rolf Wideröe

by Pedro Waloschek The following autobiographical account of Rolf Wideröe's life and work is based on manuscripts and letters written by hirnself, most ofthem especially for this report. Data from audio and video recordings with his illustrations and from my notes taken during aseries ofmeeting...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Waloschek, Pedro (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wiesbaden Vieweg+Teubner Verlag 1994, 1994
Edition:1st ed. 1994
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Wideröe on Wideröe
  • 1 Family, Youth and Lord Rutherford
  • 2 Karlsruhe — the Ray-Transformer
  • 3 Aachen — the First Operational Linac
  • 4 Cyclotrons and Other Developments
  • 5 Relays are Interesting Too
  • 6 Induction from Illinois
  • 7 The Hamburg-Betatron
  • 8 The Invention of the Storage Ring
  • 9 Oslo — the Theory of the Synchrotron
  • 10 Baden — Betatrons for BBC
  • 11 Turin — the Beta-Synchrotron
  • 12 ETH Zurich, CERN and DESY
  • 13 How Radiation Kills Cells — the Two-Components-Theory
  • 14 Some Retrospectives and Dreams
  • Chronological Survey
  • References
  • 1 The Storage Ring Patent
  • 2 The Synchrotron Patent