Nobel Laureates And Twentieth Century Physics
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| Author | : Mauro Dardo |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 556 |
| Release | : 2004-10-14 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780521540087 |
In 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.
| Author | : Francis Leroy |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 2003-03-13 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780824708764 |
Celebrating a century of revolutionary contributions to our understanding of life, the world, and the universe, this encyclopedic desk reference traces the discoveries that earned nearly 500 distinguished scientists Nobel honors in the areas of chemistry, physics, and medicine. The School of Library Journal called it "...eye-catching... Original artwork, colorful captioned drawings of models and structures, and diagrams illustrate complex scientific principles and may invite browsing. ...great graphics and appealing format..." This book includes over 550 full color illustrations and photographs, and is a must for the library of any public, university, business, or personal library.
| Author | : George Johnson |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 447 |
| Release | : 2010-09-29 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0307765458 |
With a New Afterword "Our knowledge of fundamental physics contains not one fruitful idea that does not carry the name of Murray Gell-Mann."--Richard Feynman Acclaimed science writer George Johnson brings his formidable reporting skills to the first biography of Nobel Prize-winner Murray Gell-Mann, the brilliant, irascible man who revolutionized modern particle physics with his models of the quark and the Eightfold Way. Born into a Jewish immigrant family on New York's East 14th Street, Gell-Mann's prodigious talent was evident from an early age--he entered Yale at 15, completed his Ph.D. at 21, and was soon identifying the structures of the world's smallest components and illuminating the elegant symmetries of the universe. Beautifully balanced in its portrayal of an extraordinary and difficult man, interpreting the concepts of advanced physics with scrupulous clarity and simplicity, Strange Beauty is a tour-de-force of both science writing and biography.
| Author | : L Brown |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 832 |
| Release | : 1995-01-01 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9781420050776 |
Twentieth Century Physics, Second Edition is a major historical study of the scientific and cultural development of physics in the twentieth century. This unique three-volume work offers a scholarly but highly readable overview of the development of physics, addressing both the cultural and the scientific aspects of the discipline. The three volumes deal with the major themes of physics in a quasi-chronological manner. The first volume covers the early part of the century while the second and third volumes discuss more recent issues. In each case, the development of the theme is traced from its inception to the present day. The list of contributors includes Nobel laureates, fellows of the Royal Society, and other distinguished international physicists. Where appropriate, specialists in the history of physics have written their own commentaries, providing a valuable counterpoint to the physicists' perspectives.
| Author | : Laurie M. Brown |
| Publisher | : Institute of Physics Publishing (GB) |
| Total Pages | : 816 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : |
This is a major historical study of the scientific and cultural development of physics in the 20th century. Its list of contributors includes four Nobel Laureates, 12 Fellows or Foreign Members of the Royal Society, and many other physicists of world renown.
| Author | : C. S. Liu |
| Publisher | : International Press of Boston |
| Total Pages | : 504 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
In 1992, many scientists gathered to honour C.N. Yang on his 70th birthday. This volume documents the scientific contributions resulting from that conference, and features several biographical and historical contributions that discuss the impact that C.N. Yang has had on research.
| Author | : Steve Adams |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 536 |
| Release | : 2002-01-04 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780203017180 |
The revolution in twentieth century physics has changed the way we think about space, time and matter and our own place in the universe. It has offered answers to many of the big questions of existence, such as the ultimate nature of things and the how the universe came into being. It has undermined our belief in a Newtonian mechanistic universe and a deterministic future, posing questions about parallel universes, time-travel and the origin and end of everything. At the same time we have witnessed amazing attempts at unification so that physicists are able to contemplate the discovery of a single 'theory of everything' from which we could derive the masses and types of all particles and their interactions. This book tells the story of these discoveries and the people who made them, largely through the work of Nobel Prize winning physicists.
| Author | : István Hargittai |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Philip W. Anderson |
| Publisher | : World Scientific |
| Total Pages | : 710 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9789810217181 |
Theory of ferroelectric behaviour of barium titanate. Use of stochastic methods in line broadening problems. Theory of dirty superconductors.
| Author | : Sharon Bertsch McGrayne |
| Publisher | : Joseph Henry Press |
| Total Pages | : 472 |
| Release | : 2001-04-12 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0309072700 |
Since 1901 there have been over three hundred recipients of the Nobel Prize in the sciences. Only ten of themâ€"about 3 percentâ€"have been women. Why? In this updated version of Nobel Prize Women in Science, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores the reasons for this astonishing disparity by examining the lives and achievements of fifteen women scientists who either won a Nobel Prize or played a crucial role in a Nobel Prize - winning project. The book reveals the relentless discrimination these women faced both as students and as researchers. Their success was due to the fact that they were passionately in love with science. The book begins with Marie Curie, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in physics. Readers are then introduced to Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, Emmy Noether, Lise Meitner, Barbara McClintock, Chien-Shiung Wu, and Rosalind Franklin. These and other remarkable women portrayed here struggled against gender discrimination, raised families, and became political and religious leaders. They were mountain climbers, musicians, seamstresses, and gourmet cooks. Above all, they were strong, joyful women in love with discovery. Nobel Prize Women in Science is a startling and revealing look into the history of science and the critical and inspiring role that women have played in the drama of scientific progress.
