Great Physicists
The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 12 August 2004
- ISBN 9780195173246
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages512 pages
- Size 252x178x28 mm
- Weight 1048 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous figures and halftones 0
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Short description:
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 and education. In addition, since scientists in a particular field often inspire those who follow, Cropper has grouped these biographies by discipline mechanics, thermodynamics, particle physics, and so on each section beginning with a historical overview. Our understanding of the physical world has increased dramatically in the last four centuries, starting with Galileo and his telescope and stretching to Stephen Hawking's work on black holes and cosmology. With Great Physicists, readers can retrace the footsteps of the men and women who led the way.
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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, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, 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. As Cropper captures their personalities, he also offers vivid portraits of their great moments of discovery, their bitter feuds, their relations with family and friends, their religious beliefs and education. In addition, since scientists in a particular field often inspire those who follow, Cropper has grouped these biographies by discipline--mechanics, thermodynamics, particle physics, and so on--each section beginning with a historical overview. Thus in the section on quantum mechanics, readers can see how the work of Max Planck influenced Niels Bohr, and how Bohr in turn influenced Werner Heisenberg. By sequencing the biographies in this way, Cropper gives us an overall portrait of each field.
Our understanding of the physical world has increased dramatically in the last four centuries, starting with Galileo and his telescope and stretching to Stephen Hawking's work on black holes and cosmology. With Great Physicists, readers can retrace the footsteps of the men and women who led the way.
... fun to read ... I have learned a lot about the influence of great physicists on each other and on the flow of physics ... Read it!
Table of Contents:
Part 1: Mechanics
How the Heavens Go: Galileo Galilei
A Man Obsessed: Isaac Newton
Part 2: Thermodynamics
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
Part 3: Electromagnetism
A Force of Nature: Michael Faraday
The Scientist as Magician: James Clerk Maxwell
Part 4: Statistical Mechanics
Molecules and Entropy: Ludwig Boltzmann
Part 5: Relativity
Adventure in Thought: Albert Einstein
Part 6: Quantum Mechanics
Reluctant Revolutionary: Max Planck
Science by Conversation: Niels Bohr
The Scientist as Critic: Wolfgang Pauli
Matrix Mechanics: Werner Heisenberg
Wave Mechanics: Erwin Schrödinger and Louise de Broglie
Part 7: Nuclear Physics
Opening Doors: Marie Curie
On the Crest of a Wave: Ernest Rutherford
Physics and Friendships: Lise Meitner
Complete Physicist: Enrico Fermi
Part 8: Particle Physics
*I*g*d*v = *m*v: Paul Dirac
What Do You Care?: Richard Feyman
Telling the Tale of the Quarks: Murray Gell-Mann
Part 9: Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Cosmology
Beyond the Galaxy: Edwin Hubble
Ideal Scholar: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Affliction, Fame, and Fortune: Stephen Hawking
Chronology of the Main Events
Glossary
Invitation to More Reading
Index
