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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46572472 Title: Great physicists : the life and times of leading physicists from Galileo to Hawking Author: William H Cropper Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN/ISSN: 0195137485 9780195137484 0195173244 9780195173246 OCLC:46572472

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Great physicists : the life and times of leading physicists from Galileo to Hawking

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Great physicists : the life and times of leading physicists from Galileo to Hawking

Author:	William H Cropper
Publisher:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Edition/Format:	Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form:	Biography
Material Type:	Biography, Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	William H Cropper Find more information about:
ISBN:	0195137485 9780195137484 0195173244 9780195173246
OCLC Number:	46572472
Description:	xii, 500 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents:	Mechanics. Historical synopsis. How the heavens go / Galileo Galilei -- A man obsessed / Isaac Newton. Thermodynamics. Historical synopsis. A tale of two revolutions / Sadi Carnot -- On the dark side / Robert Mayer -- A holy undertaking / James Joule -- Unities and a unifier / Hermann Helmholtz -- The scientist as virtuoso / William Thomson -- The road to entropy / Rudolf Clausius -- The greatest simplicity / Willard Gibbs -- The last law / Walther Nernst. Electromagnetism. Historical synopsis. A force of nature / Michael Faraday -- The scientist as magician / James Clerk Maxwell. Statistical mechanics. Historical synopsis. Molecules and entropy / Ludwig Boltzmann. Relativity. Historical synopsis. Adventure in thought / Albert Einstein. Quantum mechanics. Historical synopsis. Reluctant revolutionary / Max Planck -- Science by conversation / Niels Bohr -- The scientist as critic / Wolfgang Pauli -- Matrix mechanics / Werner Heisenberg -- Wave mechanics / Erwin Schrödinger, Louis de Broglie. Nuclear physics. Historical synopsis. Opening doors / Marie Curie -- On the crest of a wave / Ernest Rutherford -- Physics and friendships / Lise Meitner -- Complete physicist / Enrico Fermi. Particle physics. Historical synopsis. i[gamma] · [delta] [psi] = m [psi] / Paul Dirac -- What do you care? / Richard Feynman -- Telling the tale of the quarks / Murray Gell-Mann. Astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology. Historical synopsis. Beyond the galaxy / Edwin Hubble -- Ideal scholar / Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar -- Affliction, fame, and fortune / Stephen Hawking.
Responsibility:	William H. Cropper.
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