Guerrilla Science

Survival Strategies of a Cuban Physicist

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Ernesto Altshuler

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Full of drama, dedication, and humor, this book narrates the author’s often frustrating experiences working as an experimental physicist in Cuba after the disintegration of the so-called socialist block. Lacking finance and infrastructure, faced with makeshift equipment, unpredictable supplies, and unreliable IT, Altshuler tells how he and his students overcame numerous challenges to make novel and interesting contributions to several fields of science. Along the way, he explains the science - from studies of ant colonies to superconductivity - either qualitatively or quantitatively, but always at a level fully understandable to an undergraduate student of natural sciences or engineering. An even wider audience, however, may skip the technical sections without missing the essence. With numerous anecdotes, photographs and the author’s own delightful cartoons, the book tells a remarkable, and often amusing story of how successful science can be performed against all odds.

Author Biography:

Ernesto Altshuler graduated from the University of Havana in 1986, and defended there his PhD in Physics in 1994 - at the peak of the economic crisis associated with the disintegration of the Soviet block. Since 1982 he has undertaken original research in the fields of magnetism, superconductivity, granular matter, social insects, bacterial dynamics, and a variety of other subjects.

Release date NZ

March 24th, 2017

Author

Ernesto Altshuler

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Edition

1st ed. 2017

Illustrations

50 Illustrations, color; 21 Illustrations, black and white; X, 147 p. 71 illus., 50 illus. in color.

Pages

147

Dimensions

155x235x15

ISBN-13

9783319516226

Product ID

26407611

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