Bøker av Gordon Fraser

In Star Territory Gordon Fraser charts how the project of rationalizing the cosmos enabled the nineteenth-century expansion of U.S. territory and explores the alternative and resistant cosmologies of free and enslaved Blacks and indigenous peoples.

When the Nazis came to power in 1933, they immediately expelled Jewish academics, unwittingly changing the power balance of world science. When war came, these scientific refugees raced to engineer the atomic bomb, to prevent Nazi Germany getting there first. This book tells the story of how the Bomb and the Holocaust became locked in a grisly race.

Biography of Abdus Salam, the first citizen of Pakistan to win a Nobel Prize, who was nevertheless branded as a heretic and excommunicated from his home country, where his achievements are often overlooked, even besmirched. Instead, he acted out his dreams on an wider stage, as a citizen of the world.

This book introduces the world of antimatter without using technical language or equations. The author shows how the quest for symmetry in physics slowly revealed the properties of antimatter. When large particle accelerators came on line, the antimatter debris of collisions provided new clues on its properties.

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The human race has always wanted to look beyond the horizon, to see what is out there.... On either side of us, the Universe has structure on scales up to about a thousand billion billion billion times bigger or smaller than our own. Because this range is not quite infinite, there is hope that we may one day completely understand the structures of the Universe, from the very smallest to the largest we can know. This book describes the remarkable progress we have already made towards this complete picture.... The only thing that seems to be unbounded is the power of reason.