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Great physicists

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Great physicists

[Book]

:the life and times of leading physicists from Galileo to Hawking

/ William H. Cropper

1st pbk ed.

Oxford ;New York

: Oxford University Press,

, 2001.

xii, 500 p. , ill. , 26 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mechanics. Historical synopsis. How the heavens go /Galileo Galilei --A man obsessed /Isaac Newton. Thermodynamics. Historical synopsis. A tale of two revolutions /Sadi Carnot --On the dark side /Robert Mayer --A holy undertaking /James Joule --Unities and a unifier /Hermann Helmholtz --The scientist as virtuoso /William Thomson --The road to entropy /Rudolf Clausius --The greatest simplicity /Willard Gibbs --The last law /Walther Nernst. Electromagnetism. Historical synopsis. A force of nature /Michael Faraday --The scientist as magician /James Clerk Maxwell. Statistical mechanics. Historical synopsis. Molecules and entropy /Ludwig Boltzmann. Relativity. Historical synopsis. Adventure in thought /Albert Einstein. Quantum mechanics. Historical synopsis. Reluctant revolutionary /Max Planck --Science by conversation /Niels Bohr --The scientist as critic /Wolfgang Pauli --Matrix mechanics /Werner Heisenberg --Wave mechanics /Erwin Schreodinger,Louis de Broglie. Nuclear physics. Historical synopsis. Opening doors /Marie Curie --On the crest of a wave /Ernest Rutherford --Physics and friendships /Lise Meitner --Complete physicist /Enrico Fermi. Particle physics. Historical synopsis. i[gamma] س‍ [delta] [psi] = m [psi] /Paul Dirac --What do you care? /Richard Feynman --Telling the tale of the quarks /Murray Gell-Mann. Astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology. Historical synopsis. Beyond the galaxy /Edwin Hubble --Ideal scholar /Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar --Affliction, fame, and fortune /Stephen Hawking.

Physicists, Biography

Cropper, William H.

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