Obsessed by a Dream The Physicist Rolf Widerøe – a Giant in the History of Accelerators
Publication year: 2020
: 978-3-030-26338-6
This biography chronicles the life and achievements of the Norwegian engineer and physicist Rolf Widerøe. Readers who meet him in the pages of this book will wonder why he isn't better known.
: Physics and Astronomy / Popular Science in Physics / Particle Acceleration and Detection, / Beam Physics / Cancer Research / History and Philosophical / Foundations of Physics / History of accelerator physics / Betratron / Medical accelerators / Hadrontherapy / Linac / Life and Work of Rolf Wideröe / Radiation therapy machine / Resonance accelerator / Accelerators during WWII / Linear particle accelerator / Invention of the cyclotron
