Great physicists [[electronic resource] ] : the life and times of leading physicists from Galileo to Hawking / / William H. Cropper |
Autore | Cropper William H |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (511 p.) |
Disciplina |
530/.092/2
B |
Soggetto topico | Physicists |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-19-973516-6
0-19-517324-4 1-280-47373-8 9786610473731 0-19-530242-7 0-19-535027-8 1-60256-422-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910449900703321 |
Cropper William H
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Great physicists [[electronic resource] ] : the life and times of leading physicists from Galileo to Hawking / / William H. Cropper |
Autore | Cropper William H |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (511 p.) |
Disciplina |
530/.092/2
B |
Soggetto topico | Physicists |
ISBN |
0-19-770960-5
0-19-983208-0 0-19-973516-6 0-19-517324-4 1-280-47373-8 9786610473731 0-19-530242-7 0-19-535027-8 1-60256-422-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783267103321 |
Cropper William H
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001 | ||
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Great physicists : the life and times of leading physicists from Galileo to Hawking / / William H. Cropper |
Autore | Cropper William H |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (511 p.) |
Disciplina |
530/.092/2
B |
Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
Soggetto topico | Physicists |
ISBN |
0-19-770960-5
0-19-983208-0 0-19-973516-6 0-19-517324-4 1-280-47373-8 9786610473731 0-19-530242-7 0-19-535027-8 1-60256-422-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817079003321 |
Cropper William H
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Remarkable physicists : from Galileo to Yukawa / / by Ioan James |
Autore | James I. M (Ioan Mackenzie), <1928-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, U.K. ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 389 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina |
530/.092/2
B |
Soggetto topico |
Physicists
Physics - History |
ISBN |
1-107-14487-6
1-280-44918-7 9786610449187 0-511-18410-7 0-511-16562-5 0-511-16369-X 0-511-31263-6 0-511-53534-1 0-511-16449-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1: FROM GALILEO TO DAVID BERNOULLI: Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) -- Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) -- Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) -- Isaac Newton (1642-1726) -- Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782) -- 2: FROM FRANKLIN TO LAPLACE: Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) -- Roger Joseph Boscovich (1711-1787) -- Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) -- Charles Augustin Coulomb (1736-1806) -- Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827) -- 3: FROM RUMFORD TO OERSTED: Sir Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford)(1753-1814) -- Jean-Baptiste Fourier (1768-1830) -- Thomas Young (1773-1829) -- Andre-Marie Ampere (1775-1836) -- Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851) -- 4: FROM OHM TO HELMHOLTZ: Georg Ohm (1789-1854) -- Michael Faraday (1791-1867) -- George Green (1793-1841) -- Joseph Henry (1797-1878) -- Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) -- 5: FROM KELVIN TO BOLTZMANN: William Thomson (Lord Kelvin of Largs)(1824-1907) -- James Clark Maxwell (1831-1879) -- J. Willard Gibbs (1839-1903) -- John William Strutt (Lord Rayleigh)(1842-1919) -- Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906) -- 6: FROM RONTGEN TO MARIE CURIE: Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen (1845-1923) -- Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940) -- Max Planck (1858-1947) -- William Henry Bragg (1862-1942) -- Marie Curie (1867-1934) -- 7: FROM MILLIKAN TO EINSTEIN: Robert Millikan (1868-1953) -- Ernest Rutherford (Lord Rutherford)(1871-1937) -- Lise Meitner 1878-1968) -- Otto Hahn (1879-1968) -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) -- 8: FROM EHRENFEST TO SCHRODINGER: Paul Ehrenfest (1880-1933) -- Max Born (1882-1970) -- Niels Bohr (1885-1962) -- Frederick Lindemann (Lord Cherwell) (1886-1957) -- Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961) -- 9: FROM DE BROGLIE TO FERMI: Louis de Broglie (1892-1987) -- Satyendranath Bose (1894-1974) -- Piotr Leonindovich Kapitza (1894-1984) -- Jean-Frederic Joliot (1900-1958) -- Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) -- 10: FROM HEISENBERG TO YUKAWA: Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) -- Paul Dirac (1902-1984) -- J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) -- Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1973) -- Hideki Yukawa (1907-1981). |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825513603321 |
James I. M (Ioan Mackenzie), <1928->
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Cambridge, U.K. ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2004 | ||
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