Great Physicists The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking

Name: Great Physicists The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking
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ISBN: 9780195173246

ISBN-10: 0195173244

ISBN-13: 9780195173246

Edition: 2001

Authors: William H. Cropper

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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 and Albert Einstein, 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. Cropper also offers vivid portraits of their great moments of discovery, their bitter feuds, their relations with family and friends, their religious beliefs…

Book details

List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/16/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 512
Size: 9.80" wide x 7.01" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Historical Synopsis



How the Heavens Go



A Man Obsessed



Historical Synopsis



A Tale of Two Revolutions



On the Dark Side



A Holy Undertaking



Unities and a Unifier



The Scientist as Virtuoso



The Road to Entropy



The Greatest Simplicity



The Last Law



Historical Synopsis



A Force of Nature



The Scientist as Magician



Historical Synopsis



Molecules and Entropy



Historical Synopsis



Adventure in Thought



Historical Synopsis



Reluctant Revolutionary



Science by Conversation



The Scientist as Critic



Matrix Mechanics



Wave Mechanics



Historical Synopsis



Opening Doors



On the Crest of a Wave



Physics and Friendships



Complete Physicist



Historical Synopsis



Iï¿½ï¿½∂ï¿½ = Mï¿½



What Do You Care?



Telling the Tale of the Quarks



Historical Synopsis



Beyond the Galaxy



Ideal Scholar



Affliction, Fame, and Fortune


Chronology of the Main Events


Glossary


Invitation to More Reading


Index