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Remarkable Physicists

Remarkable Physicists
Author: Ioan James
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2004-01-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521017060

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Candid Science IV

Candid Science IV
Author: Magdolna Hargittai
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 728
Release: 2004-04-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1783260890

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Candid Science IV: Conversations with Famous Physicists contains 36 interviews with well-known physicists, including 20 Nobel laureates, Templeton Prize winners, Wolf Prize winners, and other luminaries. Physics has been one of the determining fields of science in the past 100 years, playing a conspicuous role not only in science but also in world politics and economics. These in-depth conversations provide a glimpse into the greatest achievements of physics during the past few decades, featuring stories of the discoveries, and showing the human drama behind them. The greatest physicists are brought into close human proximity as if readers were having a conversation with them. The interviewees span a wide range of scientists, from such early giants as Eugene Wigner and Mark Oliphant to members of the youngest generation such as the 2001 Nobel laureate Wolfgang Ketterle. The list includes famous personalities of our time, such as Steven Weinberg, Leon Lederman, Norman Ramsey, Edward Teller, John Wheeler, Mildred Dresselhaus, Maurice Goldhaber, Benoit Mandelbrot, John Polkinghorne, and Freeman Dyson. Contents: Eugene P WignerSteven WeinbergYuval Ne'emanJerome I FriedmanMartinus J G VeltmanGerard 't HooftLeon M LedermanValentine L TelegdiVal L FitchMaurice GoldhaberJohn N BahcallRudolf MößbauerArno A PenziasRobert W WilsonOwen ChamberlainMarcus L E OliphantNorman F RamseyDavid E PritchardWolfgang KetterleLaszlo TiszaEdward TellerJohn A WheelerFreeman J DysonJohn C PolkinghorneBenoit B MandelbrotKenneth G WilsonMildred S DresselhausCatherine BréchignacPhilip W AndersonZhores I AlferovDaniel C TsuiAntony HewishJocelyn Bell BurnellJoseph H TaylorRussell A HulseDavid Shoenberg Readership: General readers and physicists. Keywords:Physics;Nobel Prize;History of Physics;Famous PhysicistsReviews:“I recommend this handy volume, admirably suited for complete reading or browsing, not only to historians of physics and of science but also to practicing scientists, especially beginning ones, as well as to students, who will surely benefit from these inspiring stories by some of physics' leading luminaries.”The Chemical Educator “I heartily recommend this attractive volume, suitable for either complete reading or browsing, to historians of physics and of science, to practicing scientists, and to students, who will surely benefit from these inspiring stories by some of the leading luminaries of physics.”Angewandte Chemie


The Great Physicists from Galileo to Einstein

The Great Physicists from Galileo to Einstein
Author: George Gamow
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2012-07-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0486136817

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The distinguished scientist and author traces the development of physics from the age of the ancient Greeks to modern particle physics, offering fascinating biographical and historical data. 136 illustrations.


Remarkable Physicists

Remarkable Physicists
Author: James, Ioan Mackenzie James
Publisher:
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2004
Genre: Physicists
ISBN:

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The Strangest Man

The Strangest Man
Author: Graham Farmelo
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2009-08-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0465019927

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Paul Dirac was among the great scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of the discoverers of quantum mechanics, the most revolutionary theory of the past century, his contributions had a unique insight, eloquence, clarity, and mathematical power. His prediction of antimatter was one of the greatest triumphs in the history of physics. One of Einstein’s most admired colleagues, Dirac was in 1933 the youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize in physics. Dirac’s personality is legendary. He was an extraordinarily reserved loner, relentlessly literal-minded and appeared to have no empathy with most people. Yet he was a family man and was intensely loyal to his friends. His tastes in the arts ranged from Beethoven to Cher, from Rembrandt to Mickey Mouse. Based on previously undiscovered archives, The Strangest Man reveals the many facets of Dirac’s brilliantly original mind. A compelling human story, The Strangest Man also depicts a spectacularly exciting era in scientific history.


Great Physicists

Great Physicists
Author: William H. Cropper
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780195173246

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Presents profiles of thirty scientists, including Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Richard Feynman, and Edwin Hubble.


Great Physicists

Great Physicists
Author: William H. Cropper
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2004-09-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780199832088

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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, Cropper has grouped these biographies by discipline--mechanics, thermodynamics, particle physics, and others--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. Our understanding of the physical world has increased dramatically in the last four centuries. With Great Physicists, readers can retrace the footsteps of the men and women who led the way.


The Martians of Science

The Martians of Science
Author: István Hargittai
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0195365569

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If science has the equivalent of a Bloomsbury group, it is the five men born at the turn of the twentieth century in Budapest: Theodore von Kármán, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, and Edward Teller. From Hungary to Germany to the United States, they remained friends and continued to work together and influence each other throughout their lives. As a result, their work was integral to some of the most important scientific and political developments of the twentieth century. István Hargittai tells the story of this remarkable group: Wigner won a Nobel Prize in theoretical physics; Szilard was the first to see that a chain reaction based on neutrons was possible, initiated the Manhattan Project, but left physics to try to restrict nuclear arms; von Neumann could solve difficult problems in his head and developed the modern computer for more complex problems; von Kármán became the first director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, providing the scientific basis for the U.S. Air Force; and Teller was the father of the hydrogen bomb, whose name is now synonymous with the controversial "Star Wars" initiative of the 1980s. Each was fiercely opinionated, politically active, and fought against all forms of totalitarianism. Hargittai, as a young Hungarian physical chemist, was able to get to know some of these great men in their later years, and the depth of information and human interest in The Martians of Science is the result of his personal relationships with the subjects, their families, and their contemporaries.


Famous Physicists

Famous Physicists
Author: Alfred Leonard Mann
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1963
Genre: Physicists
ISBN:

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The lives and achievements of nine early physicists are followed by instructions for experiments similar in nature to those performed by the pioneer scientists. Grades 6-8.


Heisenberg Probably Slept Here

Heisenberg Probably Slept Here
Author: Richard P. Brennan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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Profiles the lives of eight physicists and details their contributions to the field especially during the twentieth century.