Burnt Yellow Bridesmaid Dress

Adventures of a designer in the sense of synergetics quantum

Federico Capasso

Di Renzo Editore

Federico Capasso, Italian physicist transplanted in the United States, recounts his fascinating adventures of researcher and his experience as a manager at the legendary Bell Labs, the leading industrial research center in the world. His interdisciplinary studies, the boundary between basic research and applied research, have opened new horizons to the physics of nanostructures, photonics, electronics and materials science. Of particular relevance are his pioneering research on engineering and artificial semiconductor quantum devices, most notably the revolutionary invention of quantum cascade lasers, and his recent research on the effect Casimir. A story, says the author, "that perhaps could be of help to young people aspiring to scientific careers, because there is a "life important" behind to be successful, but many "small and seemingly insignificant steps."

Bathing Suits Mishaps

Hermann Haken

Di Renzo Editore

observed and interpreted in the sense of synergetics, "the reality that surrounds us can really take amazing tone. Starting from the physical, with the passage of time has been introduced into the synergetic always new areas of knowledge such as chemistry, biology, sociology and psychology. But what exactly is meant by the term "synergistic" and what it means to adopt the point of view of that particular mode of interpretation of reality? A more fundamental questions such as Hermann Haken answered in this eclectic and stimulating text, accompanying the reader through a revolutionary cognitive journey. The entire journey of life and study author, told with sympathetic irony, was characterized by the belief that it could - and should - create a new field that he addressed in an interdisciplinary way to physics, chemistry and biology, but beyond. Observe and interpret the world "in the sense of synergetics", then, certainly does not mean only use methods of mathematics and physics, as well as other innovative and specific cognitive strategies.