Silverman, Mark Philip
SILVERMAN, Mark Philip
SILVERMAN, Mark Philip. American. Genres: Physics. Career: Trinity College, Hartford, CT, professor of physics. Ecole Superieure de Physique et Chimie (Paris), Joliot professor of physics; Hitachi Advanced Research Laboratory (Tokyo), chief researcher; consultant to National Science Foundation. Springer-Verlag (publisher), member of editorial board. Publications: And Yet It Moves: Strange Systems and Subtle Questions in Physics, 1993; More Than One Mystery, 1995; Waves and Grains: Reflections on Light and Learning, 1998; Probing the Atom, 2000; A Universe of Atoms, an Atom in the Universe, 2002. Contributor to scientific journals. Address: Trinity College, 300 Summit St, Hartford, CT 06106, U.S.A.
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