Kristian Birkeland : The First Space Scientist. 1st ed. 2005

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by Alv Egeland, William J. Burke

出版情報:

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2005

著者名:

• Egeland, Alv.
• Burke, William J.
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シリーズ名:

Astrophysics and Space Science Library ; 325

ISBN:

9781402032943 [1402032943]    

注記:

Background and Education -- At the 19th Century's End -- A New Abel -- Introduction: Tempora Mutant Et Nos Cum Illis Mutamur -- Geomagnetic and Solar System Research -- Aurora in a Vacuum Chamber -- The Norwegian Auroral Expeditions -- The Universe in a Vacuum Chamber -- Technology and Applied Physics -- Fast Switches and Electromagnetic Cannons -- In as Little as Four Years -- Birkeland the Man -- As Seen in his Own Time -- Consummatus in Brevi, Explevit Tempora Multa -- Birkeland's Heritage -- From Small Acorns -- In Memoriam.
At the beginning of the 20th century Kristian Birkeland (1867-1917), a Norwegian scientist of insatiable curiosity, addressed questions that had vexed European scientists for centuries. Why do the northern lights appear overhead when the Earth’s magnetic field is disturbed? How are magnetic storms connected to disturbances on the Sun? To answer these questions Birkeland interpreted his advance laboratory simulations and daring campaigns in the Arctic wilderness in the light of Maxwell’s newly discovered laws of electricity and magnetism. Birkeland’s ideas were dismissed for decades, only to be vindicated when satellites could fly above the Earth’s atmosphere. Faced with the depleting stocks of Chilean saltpeter and the consequent prospect of mass starvation, Birkeland showed his practical side, inventing the first industrial scale method to extract nitrogen-based fertilizers from the air. Norsk Hydro, one of modern Norway’s largest industries, stands as a living tribute to his genius. Hoping to demonstrate wh

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