70 years of Dutch physics in 'Strings, mirrors and tape'
Strings, mirrors and tape is a new book about 70 years of Dutch physics. It is a collection of pinnacles in scientific achievement, Nobel Prize winners, and research that captures the imagination. The book can be purchased in bookshops.
Using a large number of photos, this book shows how physicists have successfully adapted to the times. The collaboration of researchers with Dutch industry is one such example. The book contains scientific highlights and photographic impressions of physicists in their laboratory.
This book has been published to commemorate the seventy-year existence of the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM), which was integrated in the new NWO on 1 January 2017. Since its establishment in 1946, FOM supported and shaped the field of physics in the Netherlands. Christa Hooijer, the last director of FOM: 'With this book we are highlighting a flourishing period in Dutch physics. In those seventy years we celebrated fundamental breakthroughs of international allure and we developed technology that is important for society. The many successful multidisciplinary collaborations also helped to ensure that we can grow further within the new NWO, together with the other science disciplines."
The book was written by the director of Museum Boerhaave Dirk van Delft, copywriters Huub Eggen and Anita van Stel and communication advisers Anouck Vrouwe and Gabby Zegers. The illustration on the cover is a painting by Robbert Dijkgraaf. WBOOKS is the publisher. There is also Dutch edition available entitled Snaren, spiegels en plakband.
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Strings, mirrors and tape
ISBN 978 94 625 8199 9
Snaren, spiegels en plakband
ISBN 978 94 625 8168 5
€ 19.95