Remarkable Physicists

From Galileo to Yulakawa

Ioan James

389 pages, parution le 20/01/2004

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The 250 years from the second half of the 17th century saw the birth of modern physics and its growth into one of the most successful of the sciences. The reader will find here the lives of 55 of the most remarkable physicists from that era described in brief biographies. All the characters profiled have made important contributions to physics, either through their ideas, through their teaching or in other ways. The emphasis is on their varied life-stories, not on the details of their achievements, but when read in sequence the biographies, which are organised chronologically, convey in human terms something of the way in which physics was created. Scientific and mathematical detail is kept to a minimum, so the reader who is interested in physics, but perhaps lacks the background to follow technical accounts, will find this collection an inviting and easy path through the subject's modern development.

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Prologue
From Galileo to Daniel Bernoulli
From Franklin to Laplace
From Rumford to Oersted
From Somerville to Henry
From Helmholtz to Rayleigh
From Boltzmann to Volterra
From Bragg to Langevin
From Meitner to Born
From Bohr to Simon
From Bose to Heisenberg
From Dirac to Yukawa
Epilogue
Further reading
Acknowledgements

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Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	Ioan James
Parution	20/01/2004
Nb. de pages	389
Format	15 x 22,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	670g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780521017060
ISBN13	978-0-521-01706-0