02947nam 22006494a 450 991078326710332120230607215451.00-19-770960-50-19-983208-00-19-973516-60-19-517324-41-280-47373-897866104737310-19-530242-70-19-535027-81-60256-422-1(CKB)1000000000028971(EBL)241379(OCoLC)437154840(SSID)ssj0000165403(PQKBManifestationID)11163596(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000165403(PQKBWorkID)10142928(PQKB)11534887(Au-PeEL)EBL241379(CaPaEBR)ebr10084840(CaONFJC)MIL47373(OCoLC)935227171(MiAaPQ)EBC241379(EXLCZ)99100000000002897120010320d2001 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGreat physicists[electronic resource] the life and times of leading physicists from Galileo to Hawking /William H. CropperOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20011 online resource (511 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-530242-7 0-19-513748-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; I. Mechanics: Historical Synopsis; II. Thermodynamics: Historical Synopsis; III. Electromagnetism: Historical Synopsis; IV. Statistical Mechanics: Historical Synopsis; V. Relativity: Historical Synopsis; VI. Quantum Mechanics: Historical Synopsis; VII. Nuclear Physics: Historical Synopsis; VIII. Particle Physics: Historical Synopsis; IX. Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Cosmology: Historical Synopsis; Chronology of the Main Events; Glossary; Invitation to More Reading; IndexHere 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 alPhysicistsBiographyPhysicists530/.092/2BCropper William H547MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783267103321Great physicists240957UNINA