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Title

Pioneers of science : Nobel prize winners in physics / Robert L. Weber ; edited by J.M.A. Lenihan.

Author

Weber, Robert L., 1913-1997.

Publication

Bristol : Institute of Physics, ©1980.

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Additional Authors

Lenihan, J. M. A.

Description

xviii, 272 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"From the electron to the quark, from x-rays to astrophysics, from the wireless to the laser - this fascinating story of discovery and invention can be traced through this collection of biographies of the 114 men and women who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for physics. Robert Weber records the lives and achievements of this select band of scientists whose names are more usually associated with equations or phenomena, highlighting their Prize-winning work and its significance, from the inception of the Prizes in 1901 to the awards of 1979. The biographies feature unique portrait drawings of the laureates and provide insights into their personalities, interests and lifestyles. Together they present an informal survey of change in twentieth-century science which will be of great interest to the layman and the scientist alike." -- dustjacket fly-leaf.

Subject

• Physicists > Biography
• Nobel Prizes
• Nobel Prize winners
• Physics
• Physics
• Nobel Prize
• physics
• 33.01 history of physics
• Nobel Prize winners
• Nobel Prizes
• Physicists
• Natuurkundigen
• Nobelprijzen
• Physicists > Biography
• Nobelpristagare > fysik

Genre/Form

• Biography
• collective biographies.
• Biographies
• Biographies (form)
• Biographies.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 267-268.

Contents

• 1901: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (German) -- 1902: Pieter Zeeman (Dutch), Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (Dutch) -- 1903: Antoine Henri Becquerel (French) Pierre Curie (French) / Marie Sklodowska Curie (French, Polish-born) -- 1904: John William Strutt, Third Baron Rayleigh (British) -- 1905: Philipp Lenard (German, Hungarian-born)-- 1906: Sir Joseph John Thomson (British) -- 1907: Albert Abraham Michelson (American, German-born) -- 1908: Gabriel Lippmann (French, Luxembourg-born) -- 1909: Guglielmo Marconi (Italian), Carl Ferdinand Braun (German) -- 1910: Johannes Diderik van der Waals (Dutch) -- 1911: Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien (German) -- 1912: Nils Gustaf Dalén (Swedish) -- 1913: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (Dutch) -- 1914: Max Theodor Felix von Laue (German) -- 1915: Sir William Henry Bragg (British), Sir William Lawrence Bragg (British) -- 1916: No award -- 1917: Charles Glover Barkla (British) -- 1918: Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (German) -- 1919: Johannes Stark (German) -- 1920: Charles-Edouard Guillaume (French) -- 1921: Albert Einstein (German) -- 1922: Niels Hendrik David Bohr (Danish) -- 1923: Robert Andrews Millikan (American) -- 1924: Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn (Swedish) -- 1925: James Franck (German), Gustav Ludwig Hertz (German) -- 1926: Jean Baptiste Perrin (French) -- 1927: Arthur Holly Compton (American) / Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (British) -- 1928: Sir Owen Willans Richardson (British) -- 1929: Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond, Prince de Broglie (French) -- 1930: Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (Indian)-- 1931: No award -- 1932: Werner Karl Heisenberg (German) -- 1933: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (British), Erwin Schrödinger (Austrian) -- 1934: No award -- 1935: Sir James Chadwick (British) -- 1936: Victor Franz Hess (Austrian) / Carl David Anderson (American) -- 1937: Clinton Joseph Davisson (American), Sir George Paget Thomson (British) -- 1938: Enrico Fermi (American, Italian-born) -- 1939: Ernest Orlando Lawrence (American).
• 1940-42: No awards -- Otto Stern (American, German-born) -- Isidor Isaac Rabi (American, Austrian-born) -- 1945: Wolfgang Pauli (American, Austrian-born) -- 1946: Percy Williams Bridgman (American) -- 1947: Sir Edward Victor Appleton (British) -- 1948: Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett (British) -- 1949: Hideki Yukawa (Japanese) -- 1950: Cecil Frank Powell (British) -- 1951: Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (British), Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (Irish) -- 1952: Felix Bloch (American, Swiss-born), Edward Mills Purcell (American) -- 1953: Frits Zernike (Dutch) -- 1954: Max Born (British, German-born) / Walther Wilhelm George Bothe (German) -- 1955: Willis Eugene Lamb Jr (American) / Polykarp Kusch (American, German-born) -- 1956: John Bardeen (American), Walter Houser Brattain (American), William Shockley (American) -- 1957: Chen Ning Yang (American, Chinese-born), Tsung Dao Lee (American, Chinese-born) -- 1958: Pavel Alekseivich Cherenkov (Russian), Ilya Mikhailovich Frank (Russian), Igor Evgenievich Tamm (Russian) -- 1959: Owen Chamberlain (American), Emilio Gino Segrè (American, Italian-born) -- 1960: Donald Arthur Glaser (American) -- 1961: Robert Hofstadter (American) / Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer (German) -- 1962: Lev Davidovich Landau (Russian) -- 1963: Eugene Paul Wigner (American, Hungarian-born) / Maria Goeppert-Mayer (American, German-born), J. Hans D. Jenson (German) -- 1964: Charles Hard Townes (American), Nikolai Gennadievich Basov (Russian), Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov (Russian) -- 1965: Richard Phillips Feynman (American), Julian Seymour Schwinger (American), Sin-itiro Tomonaga (Japanese) -- 1966: Alfred Kastler (French) -- 1967: Hans Albrecht Bethe (American, German-born) -- 1968: Luis Walter Alvarez (American) -- 1969: Murray Gell-Mann (American) -- 1970: Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (Swedish) / Louis Eugène Félix Néel (French) -- 1971: Dennis Gabor (British, Hungarian-born) -- 1972: Leon N. Cooper (American), John Robert Schreiffer (American), John Bardeen (American) -- 1973: Leo Esaki (Japanese) / Ivar Giaever (American, Norwegian-born) / Brian David Josephson (British) -- 1974: Antony Hewish (British), Martin Ryle (British) -- 1975: Aage Niels Bohr (Danish), Ben Roy Mottelson (Danish, American-born), Leo James Rainwater (American) -- 1976: Burton Richter (American), Samuel Chao Chung Ting (American) -- 1977: John Hasbrouck van Vleck (American) / Sir Nevill Francis Mott (British), Philip Warren Anderson (American) -- 1978 Peter Leonidovich Kapitza (Russian) / Arno A. Penzias (American, German-born), Robert Woodrow Wilson (American) -- 1979: Steven Weinberg (American), Abdus Salam (Pakistani), Sheldon Lee Glashow (American).

ISBN

• 0854980369
• 9780854980369

LCCN

81108183

OCLC

• ocm08347509
• 8347509
• SCSB-31175

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library