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Remarkable physicists : from Galileo to Yukawa
- Title
- Remarkable physicists : from Galileo to Yukawa / by Ioan James.
- Author
- James, I. M. (Ioan Mackenzie), 1928-
- Publication
- Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | QC15 .J36 2004 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xv, 389 pages : portraits; 24 cm
- Summary
- The 250 years from the second half of the 17th-century saw the birth of modern physics and its growth into one of the most successful of the sciences. This text features portrayals of 55 of the most remarkable physicists from that era described in brief biographies.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- History
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-384).
- Contents
- 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).
- ISBN
- 0521816874
- 9780521816878
- 0521017068
- 9780521017060
- LCCN
- 2003055423
- OCLC
- ocm52520500
- 52520500
- SCSB-1324773
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library