Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics
Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics
£57.99
GBPIn this richly-illustrated 2004 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.
- Embraces both the Nobel prize in physics and twentieth-century physics right up to the present day
- Well written and beautifully illustrated throughout
- Unique concept
Reviews & endorsements
'Noble endeavours and Nobel prizes appear in this exploration of modern physics through the people who discovered it.' NewScientist
Dardo has been remarkably successful in assembling a year-by-year survey of 20th century physics and its geniuses within 500 pages, well illustrated by many small historic, often informal, pictures and some helpful diagrams. … dipping into a chapter is a delight that yields an absorbing read and readily leads one via cross-referencing to descriptions of both earlier and later achievements and Laureates.' Contemporary Physics
Product details
October 2004Paperback
9780521540087
546 pages
247 × 190 × 28 mm
1.205kg
223 b/w illus. 3 tables
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Founding fathers
- 3. Highlights of classical physics
- Part I. The Triumphs of Modern Physics (1901–50):
- 4. New foundations
- 5. The quantum atom
- 6. The golden years
- 7. The thirties
- 8. The nuclear age
- Part II. New Frontiers (1951–2003):
- 9. Wave of inventions
- 10. New vistas on the cosmos
- 11. The small, the large - the complex
- 12. Big physics - small physics
- 13. New trends.
