Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics
Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics
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USDIn 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
"The book is illustrated profusely with classic photographs of the physicists, along with diagrams and graphs to explicate their ideas. An appendix lists the prizes in chronological order. There is a glossary of useful physical terms, references, a select bibliography, and a good index. Highly recommended." CHOICE
"This is a fine history of physics in the 20th century, and also serves as a high-quality primer for the concepts that underlie quantum mechanics and the standard model of particle physics. Dardo has put together a well-illustrated, well-researched and interesting story." The Leading Edge
Product details
November 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.
