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| Preface | |
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| Prologue | |
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| From Galileo to Daniel Bernoulli | |
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| Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) | |
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| Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) | |
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| Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) | |
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| Isaac Newton (1642-1726) | |
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| Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782) | |
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| From Franklin to Laplace | |
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| Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) | |
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| Roger Joseph Boscovich (1711-1787) | |
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| Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) | |
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| Charles Augustin Coulomb (1736-1806) | |
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| Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827) | |
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| From Rumford to Oersted | |
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| Sir Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) (1753-1814) | |
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| Jean-Baptiste Fourier (1768-1830) | |
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| Thomas Young (1773-1829) | |
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| Andre-Marie Ampere (1775-1836) | |
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| Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851) | |
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| From Ohm to Helmholtz | |
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| Georg Ohm (1789-1854) | |
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| Michael Faraday (1791-1867) | |
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| George Green (1793-1841) | |
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| Joseph Henry (1797-1878) | |
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| Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) | |
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| From Kelvin to Boltzmann | |
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| William Thomson (Lord Kelvin of Largs) (1824-1907) | |
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| James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) | |
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| J. Willard Gibbs (1839-1903) | |
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| John William Strutt (Lord Rayleigh) (1842-1919) | |
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| Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906) | |
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| From Rontgen to Marie Curie | |
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| Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen (1845-1923) | |
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| Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940) | |
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| Max Planck (1858-1947) | |
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| William Henry Bragg (1862-1942) | |
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| Marie Curie (1867-1934) | |
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| From Millikan to Einstein | |
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| Robert Millikan (1868-1953) | |
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| Ernest Rutherford (Lord Rutherford) (1871-1937) | |
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| Lise Meitner (1878-1968) | |
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| Otto Hahn (1879-1968) | |
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| Albert Einstein (1879-1955) | |
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| From Ehrenfest to Schrodinger | |
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| Paul Ehrenfest (1880-1933) | |
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| Max Born (1882-1970) | |
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| Niels Bohr (1885-1962) | |
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| Frederick Lindemann (Lord Cherwell) (1886-1957) | |
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| Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961) | |
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| From de Broglie to Fermi | |
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| Louis de Broglie (1892-1987) | |
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| Satyendranath Bose (1894-1974) | |
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| Piotr Leonidovich Kapitza (1894-1984) | |
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| Jean-Frederic Joliot (1900-1958) | |
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| Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) | |
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| From Heisenberg to Yukawa | |
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| Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) | |
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| Paul Dirac (1902-1984) | |
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| J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) | |
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| Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972) | |
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| Hideki Yukawa (1907-1981) | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Collections | |
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| Acknowledgements | |