Guerrilla Science Survival Strategies of a Cuban Physicist /

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...

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Main Author: Altshuler, Ernesto. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51624-0
Table of Contents:
  • Guerrilla Science
  • The Chinese Connection
  • Strange Phenomena in Cuban Sands
  • Lab-in-a-Bucket: Low Budget Experiments on the Solar System
  • Garbage Experiments
  • A Reason to Drink Coca Cola
  • Should We Be a Little Afraid of Urinating?
  • Smarter than Bibijaguas
  • Annex: How Grains Influence Weak Links in Ceramic Superconductors.