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File Format | PDF
File Size | 7.12 MB
Pages | 512
Language | English
Category | Astronomy
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Description: Here is a lively
history of modern physics, as seen through the lives of thirty men and women
from the pantheon of physics. William H. Cropper vividly portrays the life and
accomplishments of such giants as Galileo and Isaac Newton, Marie Curie and Ernest
Rutherford, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, right up to contemporary figures
such as Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, and Stephen Hawking. We meet
scientists--all geniuses--who could be gregarious, aloof, unpretentious,
friendly, dogged, imperious, generous to colleagues or contentious rivals.
As Cropper
captures their personalities, he also offers vivid portraits of their great
moments of discovery, their bitter feuds, their relations with family and
friends, their religious beliefs and education. In addition, Cropper has
grouped these biographies by discipline--mechanics, thermodynamics, particle
physics, and others--each section beginning with a historical overview. Thus in
the section on quantum mechanics, readers can see how the work of Max Planck
influenced Niels Bohr, and how Bohr in turn influenced Werner Heisenberg.
Our
understanding of the physical world has increased dramatically in the last four
centuries. With Great Physicists, readers can retrace the footsteps of the men
and women who led the way.
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Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking
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