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What began as a journey into a largely unexplored region of the periodic table-rightly predicted to be a rich and fertile source of new chemical and nuclear information-quickly developed into a race for the discovery of new elements. A summary of more than forty years of work in the field, Five Decades of Research in Nuclear Science delves into the results of several projects in which John R. Huizenga played a key role. Huizenga's career began on the Manhattan Project and continued at the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), where in 1949, he and his colleagues initiated a major program to produce transplutonium nuclei by multiple neutron capture in reactors. Following the first thermonuclear explosion in 1952, Huizenga participated in the discovery of the elements einsteinium and fermium found in its debris. At ANL, he studied extensively the nuclear properties and systematics of actinide nuclei. In 1967, Huizenga moved to the University of Rochester, where he investigated the excited states of actinide nuclei by reaction spectroscopy and the decay modes of actinide muonic atoms. He also made detailed studies of the energy dissipation, nucleon transfer, and microscopic time-scale associated with a new heavy-ion reaction process known as "strongly damped collisions." John R. Huizenga is Tracy H. Harris Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Rochester.
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Christopher Lorraine
reviewed Five Decades of Research in Nuclear Science on August 30, 2018
Five Decades of Research in Nuclear Science
There are juicy bits and pieces of philosophy of science scattered throughout the twelve essays. Many essays in this collection tend to start off fairly accessible but get technical really fast before zooming out to the bigger picture.
If you don't have a serviceable background in Carnap and the philosophy of language, I suggest skipping chapters 6,7, 8 though chapters 8 in particular contains interesting insights on the ontological import of the existential quantification over predicate or sentential variables (i.e. does such a quantification commit us to Platonically affirming the existence of abstract entities such as qualities, kinds and propositions).
Setting aside the classics "Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man" and "Empiricism and Philosophy of Mind", I found chapter 11 "Some Reflections on Language Games" wherein Sellars explores the fruitful distinctions between pattern governed behavior and rule following, game and metagame, and causes and reasons, to be the single most enlightening philosophical essay I've read all year. The suggestion at the end that the scientific theories could prompt us to introduce new "material moves/inferences" in the non-theoretical (everyday) language sees Sellars at his most revisionary with regards to the stereoscopic "joining" of the scientific image to the manifest image which could entail a partial liquidation of the latter by the former.
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