Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics

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.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 14 Oct. 2004
Edition ‏ : ‎ Illustrated
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 546 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0521540089
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0521540087
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 kg
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 18.9 x 3.12 x 24.59 cm
Best Sellers Rank: 655,577 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) 1,546 in Popular Maths 1,559 in History of Science (Books) 2,586 in Popular Science Physics
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