Beschreibung
InhaltsangabeScience.- Philosophy, Science and Ethics.- The Physicist's Method.- Models and Simulation.- Education for Science and Technology.- Technology.- The Technological Challenge of Energy Supply.- Sources of Energy.- Challenges of Nuclear Power Production.
Autorenportrait
A Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Chorafas received his doctorate in mathematics and logic at the Sorbonne in Paris. He is a graduate electrical and mechanical engineer of the National Technical University of Athens, has a Master of Science degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and has done postgraduate studies in banking and finance, computers and communications, and operations research at UCLA, the University of Denver and George Washington University. Dr. Chorafas has been in the faculty of the Catholic University of America, Washington D.C. (1956-1958). From 1962 to 1968 he chaired the Information Systems department, Centre d'Etudes Industrielles of the University of Geneva. He has lectured as Visiting Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (EPFL), Washington State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, George Washington University, University of Florida, University of Vermont, University of Alberta (Canada), Technical University of Karlsruhe (Germany), Polish Academy of Sciences, and the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is the author of 153 books published in 16 countries by McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall, John Wiley, Irwin, Van Nostrand Reinhold, Academic Press, New York Institute of Finance, Institutional Investor, CRC-Auerbach, Macmillan/Palgrave, VRL, Lafferty, Euromoney, Butterworth-Heinemann, Elsevier and other publishers in the US, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Brazil, Japan, China. Dr. Chorafas is listed in "Who's Who in the World", "Who's Who in Europe", "Dictionary of International Biography", "The Writer's Directory", "Livre d'Or des Valeurs Humains", and "Men of Achievement".
