By Ernesto Altshuler

ISBN-10: 3319516221

ISBN-13: 9783319516226

Full of drama, commitment, and humor, this ebook narrates the author’s usually complicated stories operating as an experimental physicist in Cuba after the disintegration of the so-called socialist block. missing finance and infrastructure, confronted with makeshift apparatus, unpredictable offers, and unreliable IT, Altshuler tells how he and his scholars overcame a variety of demanding situations to make novel and engaging contributions to a number of fields of technology. alongside the best way, he explains the technology - from experiences of ant colonies to superconductivity - both qualitatively or quantitatively, yet consistently at a degree totally comprehensible to an undergraduate scholar of typical sciences or engineering. an excellent wider viewers, notwithstanding, might pass the technical sections with no lacking the essence. With a number of anecdotes, photos and the author’s personal pleasant cartoons, the publication tells a striking, and sometimes fun tale of ways profitable technology will be played opposed to all odds.

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