Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-century Physics

Mauro Dardo

535 pages, parution le 08/10/2004

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In this richly-illustrated book the author combines history with real science. Using an original approach he presents the major achievements of twentieth-century physics - for example, relativity, quantum mechanics, atomic and nuclear physics, the invention of the transistor and the laser, superconductivity, binary pulsars, and the Bose-Einstein condensate - each as they emerged as the product of the genius of those physicists whose labours, since 1901, have been crowned with a Nobel Prize. Here, in the form of a year-by-year chronicle, biographies and revealing personal anecdotes help bring to life the main events of the past hundred years. The work of the most famous physicists of the twentieth century - great names, like the Curies, Bohr, Heisenberg, Einstein, Fermi, Feynman, Gell-Mann, Rutherford, and Schrödinger - is presented, often in the words and imagery of the prize-winners themselves.

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Introduction
Founding fathers
Highlights of classical physics

Part I. The Triumphs of Modern Physics (1901-1950):
- New foundations
- The quantum atom
- The golden years
- The thirties
- The nuclear age
Part II. New Frontiers (1951–2003):
- Wave of inventions
- New vistas on the cosmos
- The small, the large - the complex
- Big physics - small physics
- New trends

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	Mauro Dardo
Parution	08/10/2004
Nb. de pages	535
Format	19 x 24,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	1205g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780521540087
ISBN13	978-0-521-54008-7