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Author : Ioan James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 10,47 MB
Release : 2004-01-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521017060
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Author : Magdolna Hargittai
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 17,78 MB
Release : 2004-04-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 1783260890
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./a
Author : István Hargittai
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 19,66 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195365569
Hargittai tells the story of five remarkable Hungarians: 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.
Author : James, Ioan Mackenzie James
Publisher :
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Physicists
ISBN :
Author : Teresa Robeson
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 28,2 MB
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1454941596
Meet Wu Chien Shiung, famous physicist who overcame prejudice to prove that she could be anything she wanted. “Wu Chien Shiung's story is remarkable—and so is the way this book does it justice.” —Booklist (Starred review) When Wu Chien Shiung was born in China 100 years ago, most girls did not attend school; no one considered them as smart as boys. But her parents felt differently. Giving her a name meaning “Courageous Hero,” they encouraged her love of learning and science. This engaging biography follows Wu Chien Shiung as she battles sexism and racism to become what Newsweek magazine called the “Queen of Physics” for her work on beta decay. Along the way, she earned the admiration of famous scientists like Enrico Fermi and Robert Oppenheimer and became the first woman hired as an instructor by Princeton University, the first woman elected President of the American Physical Society, the first scientist to have an asteroid named after her when she was still alive, and many other honors.
Author : William H. Cropper
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 2004-09-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 0199832080
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.
Author : George Gamow
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 33,26 MB
Release : 1988-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486257679
Outstanding text by one of the 20th century's foremost physicists dramatically explains how the central laws of physical science evolved, from Pythagoras' discovery of frequency ratios in the 6th century BC to today's research on elementary particles. Includes fascinating biographical data about Galileo, Newton, Huygens, Einstein and others. 136 illustrations.
Author : William H. Cropper
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 32,18 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195173246
Presents profiles of thirty scientists, including Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Richard Feynman, and Edwin Hubble.
Author : Alfred Leonard Mann
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,31 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Physicists
ISBN :
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.
Author : Carmen Arag¢ L¢pez
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,37 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789812795267
The 20th Century has been called the Century of Physics. It could be even more appropriate to call it the Century of Solid State Physics . All the technological developments which had changed the world by the end of the century had been based upon previous scientific developments in Solid State Physics. The Braggs, Debye, Bardeen, Landau were certainly at the forefront of all those revolutionary changes. Contents: The Braggs; Peter Debye; John Bardeen; Lev Davidovich Landau; The Relevance of Materials Science. Readership: Final-year undergraduates, graduate students, teachers, researchers working in materials physics, condensed matter/solid-state physics.