Recent publications by members of Class B - Exact Sciences#

Meeting the Challenge: Top Women in Science#

A new publication by Magdolna Hargittai MAE, member of the Chemical Sciences section of Academia Europaea.

Throughout history, women have overcome tremendous odds to make lasting contributions to science. In Meeting the Challenge: Top Women in Science, Professor Magdolna Hargittai, shares their stories.

Year of publication: 2023

Brilliance in Exile: The Diaspora of Hungarian Scientists from John von Neumann to Katalin Karikó#

A new publication by Professor István Hargittai MAE, member of the Chemical Sciences section of Academia Europaea and Balazs Hargittai.

By addressing the enigma of the exceptional success of Hungarian emigrant scientists and telling their life stories, Brilliance in Exile combines scholarly analysis with fascinating portrayals of uncommon personalities. István and Balazs Hargittai discuss the conditions that led to five different waves of emigration of scientists from the early twentieth century to the present. Although these exodes were driven by a broad variety of personal motivations, the attraction of an open society with inclusiveness, tolerance, and – needless to say – better circumstances for working and living, was the chief force drawing them abroad.

Year of publication: 2023

Volcano-Tectonic Processes#

A new publication by Professor Valerio Acocella, member of the Earth and Cosmic Sciences section of Academia Europaea.

The book provides insights into the fast-growing topic at the edge of volcanology, structural geology, tectonics, and geodesy, merges available knowledge on volcano-tectonics and describes the pre-eruptive processes related to the structure, deformation and tectonics of volcanoes, at the local and regional scale, in any tectonic setting.

Year of publication: 2021

Radioactivity#

A new publication by Michael Wiescher, Freimann Professor of Physics, University of Notre Dame, and Director of the Institute for Structure and Nuclear Astrophysics and member of the Physics & Engineering Sciences section.

The first volume contains a summary account of its history of discovery of radioactivity and an account of its physical and biological laws. In the second volume, the growing use and importance of radioactivity in the modern industrialized world is being presented.

Year of publication: 2021

Air, Water, Earth, Fire
How the System Earth Works#

A new book by Angelo Peccerillo, Earth and Cosmic Sciences section of Academia Europaea.

The book provides a description of the various geological subsystems and brings recent environmental problems in general context to the system Earth.

Year of publication: 2021

Earth, Our Living Planet
The Earth System and its Co-evolution With Organisms#

by Philippe Bertrand and Louis Legendre, member of the Earth and Cosmic Sciences section of Academia Europaea.

The book explains the progressive takeover of Earth by organisms since their advent on the planet billions of years ago.

Year of publication: 2021

Science in London: A Guide to Memorials#

A new book by Magdolna Hargittai and István Hargittai, both members of the Chemical Sciences section of Academia Europaea, published with a foreword by Sir Paul Nurse MAE. This is the concluding volume of their mini-series about memorials to science and scientists in four great cities in the world, Budapest (OUP 2017), New York (OUP 2017), Moscow (World Scientific, 2019), and now, London.

For more information about the volume (published by Springer Nature) see https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/27-07-2021/life-members-release-book-memorials-scientists-london

The book is available online at https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030623326.
Year of publication: 2021