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Title

From Hiroshima to the iceman : the development and applications of accelerator mass spectrometry / Harry E. Gove.

Author

Gove, H. E. (Harry Edmund), 1922-

Publication

Bristol, [England] ; Philadelphia : Institute of Physics, c1999.

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Description

xiv, 226 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.

Summary

How much difference can a new technique make to our understanding of the world? Here is a fascinating account of a breakthrough in science and the insights it has brought that would have been impossible without it. Harry Gove has been involved in accelerator mass spectrometry since its inception. Here he tells the story of its development and use as an ultrasensitive detection technique in many fields of science and the arts. Anyone interested in the development of science and how it affects our world-view will enjoy this book.

Subject

• Accelerator mass spectrometry > History
• Accelerator mass spectrometry > Industrial applications

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-217) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Brief biographical sketch of the author -- Historical development of accelerator mass spectrometry--1977 -- Historical development of accelerator mass spectrometry--1978-80 -- The development of tandem electrostatic accelerators -- Instrumentation for accelerator mass spectrometry -- The legacy of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- The initial peopling of the Americas -- The American Indians, the Vikings and Columbus -- Nuclear power, nuclear weapons and nuclear waste -- Carbon dating the Turin Shroud -- The iceman, the Dead Sea Scrools and more -- Some thoughts of future developments of AMS.

ISBN

• 0750305576 (hbk : alk. paper)
• 0750305584 (pbk : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^98042786^

OCLC

40193533

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library