Ariadne Press
Titles appearing in SciTech Book News — September 2007
Marietta Blau — stars of disintegration; biography of a pioneer of particle physics.
Strohmaier, Brigitte and Robert Rosner. (Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought)
Ariadne Press, ©2006 220 p. $27.00 QC774
978-1-57241-147-0
Austrian physicist Blau (1894-1970) developed the photographic method for detecting nuclear particles in emulsion plates during the 1920s, which became one of the most successful tools for investigating nuclear phenomena. Though nominated three times for the Nobel Prize, she was not noted even with an obituary when she died. Fellow Austrian scientists Strohmaier and Rosner describe her life as a women, a teacher and friend, and a scientist. Readers are not expected to know much physics. Marietta Blau — Sterne der Zertrümmerung was published in 2003 by Böhlau Verlag in Vienna; the English has been expanded. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
