Rutherford scattering the theory of particle stopping as developed by Bohr, Bethe, Bloch and Lindhard the statistical description of energy loss as developed by Bohr, Bothe, Williams and Landau and numerous more recent developments. The emphasis is on the theoretical description of fundamental phenomena, and much attention has been given to classic topics such as.

This book, which has evolved from the author’s lectures at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Southern Denmark, draws on his experience as an active researcher in the interaction of charged particles with matter over more than forty years. On Fact and Fraud provides a user's guide to identifying, avoiding, and preventing fraud in science, along the way offering valuable insights into how modern science is practiced. Georg Bednorz and Karl Müller's discovery of high-temperature superconductivity, a seemingly impossible accomplishment that turned out to be real.

Millikan, whose historic measurement of the electron's charge has been maligned by accusations of fraud Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons and their 'discovery' of cold fusion Victor Ninov and the supposed discovery of element 118 Jan Hendrik Schön from Bell Labs and his work in semiconductors and J. Cases include, among others, those of Robert A. In David Goodstein's varied experience-as a physicist and educator, and as vice provost at Caltech, a job in which he was responsible for investigating all allegations of scientific misconduct-a deceptively simple question has come up time and again: what constitutes fraud in science? Here, Goodstein takes us on a tour of real controversies from the front lines of science and helps readers determine for themselves whether or not fraud occurred. On Fact and Fraud looks at actual cases in which fraud was committed or alleged, explaining what constitutes scientific misconduct and what doesn't, and providing readers with the ethical foundations needed to discern and avoid fraud wherever it may arise. When accusations of scientific misconduct occur, truth can often be elusive, and the cause of a scientist's ethical misstep isn't always clear. Fraud in science is not as easy to identify as one might think.

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