Obsessed by a Dream: The Physicist Rolf Widerøe - A Giant in the History of Accelerators

by Aashild Sørheim

This Open Access biography chronicles the life and achievements of the Norwegian engineer and physicist Rolf Wider e. Readers who meet him in the pages of this book will wonder why he isn't better known.

The first of Wider e's many pioneering contributions in the field of accelerator physics was the betatron, the second, the linear accelerator, both summarized in a 27 page PhD. The betatron revolutionized the fields of cancer treatment through...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030263371
• ISBN13: 9783030263379
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 511 Pages
• Weight: 2.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"