Great Physicists

Author : William H. Cropper
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 0199832080

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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.

Author : William H. Cropper
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195173244

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Great Physicists by William H. Cropper Pdf

Presents profiles of thirty scientists, including Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Richard Feynman, and Edwin Hubble.

Author : William H. Cropper
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780195350272

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Great Physicists by William H. Cropper Pdf

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.

Author : George Gamow
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486136813

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The Great Physicists from Galileo to Einstein by George Gamow Pdf

The distinguished scientist and author traces the development of physics from the age of the ancient Greeks to modern particle physics, offering fascinating biographical and historical data. 136 illustrations.

Author : George Gamow
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1988-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0486257673

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The Great Physicists from Galileo to Einstein by George Gamow Pdf

Outstanding text by one of the 20th century's foremost physicists dramatically explains how the central laws of physical science evolved, from Pythagoras' discovery of frequency ratios in the 6th century BC to today's research on elementary particles. Includes fascinating biographical data about Galileo, Newton, Huygens, Einstein and others. 136 illustrations.

Author : A. B. Kozhevnikov
Publisher : Imperial College Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Science
ISBN : 1860944205

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Stalin's Great Science by A. B. Kozhevnikov Pdf

World-class science and technology developed in the Soviet Union during Stalin's dictatorial rule under conditions of political violence, lack of international contacts, and severe restrictions on the freedom of information. Stalin's Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists is an invaluable book that investigates this paradoxical success by following the lives and work of Soviet scientists ? including Nobel Prize-winning physicists Kapitza, Landau, and others ? throughout the turmoil of wars, revolutions, and repression that characterized the first half of Russia's twentieth century.The book examines how scientists operated within the Soviet political order, communicated with Stalinist politicians, built a new system of research institutions, and conducted groundbreaking research under extraordinary circumstances. Some of their novel scientific ideas and theories reflected the influence of Soviet ideology and worldview and have since become accepted universally as fundamental concepts of contemporary science. In the process of making sense of the achievements of Soviet science, the book dismantles standard assumptions about the interaction between science, politics, and ideology, as well as many dominant stereotypes ? mostly inherited from the Cold War ? about Soviet history in general. Science and technology were not only granted unprecedented importance in Soviet society, but they also exerted a crucial formative influence on the Soviet political system itself. Unlike most previous studies, Stalin's Great Science recognizes the status of science as an essential element of the Soviet polity and explores the nature of a special relationship between experts (scientists and engineers) and communist politicians that enabled the initial rise of the Soviet state and its mature accomplishments, until the pact eroded in later years, undermining the communist regime from within.

Author : Ken Wilber
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780834822832

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Quantum Questions by Ken Wilber Pdf

The mystical writings of the world’s great physicists—now in one eye-opening volume that bridges the gap between science and religion Quantum Questions collects the mystical writings of each of the major physicists involved in the discovery of quantum physics and relativity, including Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, and Max Planck. The selections are written in nontechnical language and will be of interest to scientists and nonscientists alike.

Author : Carmen Arag¢ L¢pez,Julio Antonio Gonzalo
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Science
ISBN : 981279526X

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Great Solid State Physicists of the 20th Century by Carmen Arag¢ L¢pez,Julio Antonio Gonzalo Pdf

The 20th Century has been called the Century of Physics. It could be even more appropriate to call it the Century of Solid State Physics . All the technological developments which had changed the world by the end of the century had been based upon previous scientific developments in Solid State Physics. The Braggs, Debye, Bardeen, Landau were certainly at the forefront of all those revolutionary changes. Contents: The Braggs; Peter Debye; John Bardeen; Lev Davidovich Landau; The Relevance of Materials Science. Readership: Final-year undergraduates, graduate students, teachers, researchers working in materials physics, condensed matter/solid-state physics.

Author : Adam Becker
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780465096060

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What Is Real? by Adam Becker Pdf

"A thorough, illuminating exploration of the most consequential controversy raging in modern science." --New York Times Book Review An Editor's Choice, New York Times Book Review Longlisted for PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Longlisted for Goodreads Choice Award Every physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity's finest scientific achievements. But ask what it means, and the result will be a brawl. For a century, most physicists have followed Niels Bohr's solipsistic and poorly reasoned Copenhagen interpretation. Indeed, questioning it has long meant professional ruin, yet some daring physicists, such as John Bell, David Bohm, and Hugh Everett, persisted in seeking the true meaning of quantum mechanics. What Is Real? is the gripping story of this battle of ideas and the courageous scientists who dared to stand up for truth. "An excellent, accessible account." --Wall Street Journal "Splendid. . . . Deeply detailed research, accompanied by charming anecdotes about the scientists." --Washington Post

Author : Jim Al-Khalili
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691182308

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The World According to Physics by Jim Al-Khalili Pdf

Scale -- Space and time -- Energy and matter -- The quantum world -- Thermodynamics and the arrow of time -- Unification -- The future of physics -- The usefulness of physics -- Thinking like a physicist.

Author : Michael Spivak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Mechanics
ISBN : 0914098322

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Physics for Mathematicians by Michael Spivak Pdf

Author : Behram N. Kursunoglu,Eugene Paul Wigner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1990-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521386888

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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac by Behram N. Kursunoglu,Eugene Paul Wigner Pdf

Paul Dirac, who died in 1984, was without question one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century. His revolutionary contribution to modern quantum theory is remembered for its insight and creativity. He is especially famous for his prediction of the magnetic moment and spin of the electron and for the existence of antiparticles. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1933 at the age of 31. In this memorial volume, 24 of Dirac's friends, colleagues and contemporaries remember him with affection. There are chapters describing Dirac's personality, and many anecdotes about the man with a reputation for silence. Other chapters describe Dirac's science and its impact on modern physics.

Author : Richard P. Brennan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015038564814

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Heisenberg Probably Slept Here by Richard P. Brennan Pdf

Profiles the lives of eight physicists and details their contributions to the field especially during the twentieth century.

Author : Károly Simonyi
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-25
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781568813295

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A Cultural History of Physics by Károly Simonyi Pdf

While the physical sciences are a continuously evolving source of technology and of understanding about our world, they have become so specialized and rely on so much prerequisite knowledge that for many people today the divide between the sciences and the humanities seems even greater than it was when C. P. Snow delivered his famous 1959 lecture, "The Two Cultures." In A Cultural History of Physics, Hungarian scientist and educator Károly Simonyi succeeds in bridging this chasm by describing the experimental methods and theoretical interpretations that created scientific knowledge, from ancient times to the present day, within the cultural environment in which it was formed. Unlike any other work of its kind, Simonyi’s seminal opus explores the interplay of science and the humanities to convey the wonder and excitement of scientific development throughout the ages. These pages contain an abundance of excerpts from original resources, a wide array of clear and straightforward explanations, and an astonishing wealth of insight, revealing the historical progress of science and inviting readers into a dialogue with the great scientific minds that shaped our current understanding of physics. Beautifully illustrated, accurate in its scientific content and broad in its historical and cultural perspective, this book will be a valuable reference for scholars and an inspiration to aspiring scientists and humanists who believe that science is an integral part of our culture.

Author : Gerry Bailey
Publisher : Bramblekids Limited
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781913832629

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Greatest ever Physicists by Gerry Bailey Pdf

Which brilliant men and women have made ground-breaking scientific discoveries over the centuries? This series tracks the great scientific minds from all over the world - from the earliest geniuses who lived thousands of years ago, to modern scientists who are advancing knowledge way beyond our universe.