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

Presents profiles of thirty scientists, including Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Richard Feynman, and Edwin Hubble
Print Book, English, 2001
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001
Nonfiction
xii, 500 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
9780195137484, 9780195173246, 0195137485, 0195173244
46572472
PART 1: MECHANICS; 1. How the Heavens Go: Galileo Galilei; 2. A Man Obsessed: Isaac Newton; PART 2: THERMODYNAMICS; 3. A Tale of Two Revolutions: Sadi Carnot; 4. On the Dark Side: Robert Mayer; 5. A Holy Undertaking: James Joule; 6. Unities and a Unifier: Hermann Helmholtz; 7. The Scientist as Virtuoso: William Thomson; 8. The Road to Entropy: Rudolf Clausius; 9. The Greatest Simplicity: Willard Gibbs; 10. The Last Law: Walther Nernst; PART 3: ELECTROMAGNETISM; 11. A Force of Nature: Michael Faraday; 12. The Scientist as Magician: James Clerk Maxwell; PART 4: STATISTICAL MECHANICS; 13. Molecules and Entropy: Ludwig Boltzmann; PART 5: RELATIVITY; 14. Adventure in Thought: Albert Einstein; PART 6: QUANTUM MECHANICS; 15. Reluctant Revolutionary: Max Planck; 16. Science by Conversation: Niels Bohr; 17. The Scientist as Critic: Wolfgang Pauli; 18. Matrix Mechanics: Werner Heisenberg; 19. Wave Mechanics: Erwin Schrodinger and Louise de Broglie; PART 7: NUCLEAR PHYSICS; 20. Opening Doors: Marie Curie; 21. On the Crest of a Wave: Ernest Rutherford; 22. Physics and Friendships: Lise Meitner; 23. Complete Physicist: Enrico Fermi; PART 8: PARTICLE PHYSICS; 24. *I*g*d*v = *m*v: Paul Dirac; 25. What Do You Care?: Richard Feyman; 26. Telling the Tale of the Quarks: Murray Gell-Mann; PART 9: ASTRONOMY, ASTROPHYSICS, AND COSMOLOGY; 27. Beyond the Galaxy: Edwin Hubble; 28. Ideal Scholar: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar; 29. Affliction, Fame, and Fortune: Stephen Hawking; CHRONOLOGY OF THE MAIN EVENTS; GLOSSARY; INVITATION TO MORE READING; INDEX
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