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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Oxford Univ Pr
Publication date
September 16, 2004
Pages
500
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780195173246
ISBN-10
0195173244
Dimensions
1 by 7 by 9.75 in.
Weight
2.35 lbs.
Original list price
$21.95
Other format details
university press
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Evolution of Physics | Generation Kill | The Best and the Brightest/20th Anniversary Edition | Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, 1929-1964 | The Right Stuff | All the President's Men | Thirty Years That Shook Physics | The Great Physicists from Galileo to Einstein
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Presents profiles of thirty scientists, including Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Richard Feynman, and Edwin Hubble.
(view table of contents)Amazon.com description: Product Description: Here 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 also offers vivid portraits of their great moments of discovery, their bitter feuds, their relations with family and friends, their religious beliefs and education. In addition, Cropper has grouped these biographies by discipline--mechanics, thermodynamics, particle physics, and others--each section beginning with a historical overview. Thus in the section on quantum mechanics, readers can see how the work of Max Planck influenced Niels Bohr, and how Bohr in turn influenced Werner Heisenberg.
Our understanding of the physical world has increased dramatically in the last four centuries. With Great Physicists, readers can retrace the footsteps of the men and women who led the way.
Our understanding of the physical world has increased dramatically in the last four centuries. With Great Physicists, readers can retrace the footsteps of the men and women who led the way.
Editions
Hardcover
from Oxford Univ Pr (November 15, 2001)
9780195137484 | details & prices | 500 pages | 10.50 × 10.25 × 1.50 in. | 2.50 lbs | List price $35.00
About: Presents profiles of thirty scientists, including Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Richard Feynman, and Edwin Hubble.
About: Presents profiles of thirty scientists, including Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Richard Feynman, and Edwin Hubble.
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
from Oxford Univ Pr (September 16, 2004)
9780195173246 | details & prices | 500 pages | 7.00 × 9.75 × 1.00 in. | 2.35 lbs | List price $21.95
About: Presents profiles of thirty scientists, including Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Richard Feynman, and Edwin Hubble.
About: Presents profiles of thirty scientists, including Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Richard Feynman, and Edwin Hubble.
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