iFOCUS Science Colloquium Lecture Series

Title

From Radioactivity to Quark-Gluon Plasma: An Overview of Nuclear Physics

Streaming Media

Document Type

Video File

Duration

58 minutes 35 seconds

Publication Date

2-27-2014

Disciplines

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Nuclear | Physics

Abstract

Nuclear technologies span many areas of modern life, such as warfare, energy and medicine. But where did all of these technologies and more originate? Beginning with the discovery of radioactivity through current areas research, nuclear physics has a long history of surprising, fundamental, and useful discoveries. This history provides a framework for understanding what we know about nuclear physics, how that knowledge was developed, and the questions being asked today.

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Sponsored by the Hearst Foundations and the Linfield College Physics Department.

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