Great Physicists

The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking

William H. Cropper

500 pages, parution le 22/01/2002

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Résumé

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.

Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

I Mechanics

1 How the Heavens Go 5
2 A Man Obsessed 18

II Thermodynamics

3 A Tale of Two Revolutions 43
4 On the Dark Side 51
5 A Holy Undertaking 59
6 Unities and a Unifier 71
7 The Scientist as Virtuoso 78
8 The Road to Entropy 93
9 The Greatest Simplicity 106
10 The Last Law 124

III Electromagnetism

11 A Force of Nature 137
12 The Scientist as Magician 154
IV Statistical Mechanics
13 Molecules and Entropy 179

V Relativity

14 Adventure in Thought 203

VI Quantum Mechanics

15 Reluctant Revolutionary 231
16 Science by Conversation 242
17 The Scientist as Critic 256
18 Matrix Mechanics 263
19 Wave Mechanics 275

VII Nuclear Physics

20 Opening Doors 295
21 On the Crest of a Wave 308
22 Physics and Friendships 330
23 Complete Physicist 344

VIII Particle Physics

24 i[gamma][actual symbol not reproducible][psi]=m[psi] 365
25 What Do You Care? 376
26 Telling the Tale of the Quarks 403

IX Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Cosmology

27 Beyond the Galaxy 423
28 Ideal Scholar 438
29 Affliction, Fame, and Fortune 452
Chronology of the Main Events 464
Glossary 469
Invitation to More Reading 478
Index 485

L'auteur - William H. Cropper

Professor of Chemistry, St. Lawrence University

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	William H. Cropper
Parution	22/01/2002
Nb. de pages	500
Format	18 x 26
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1100g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780195137484