Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (898 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195173244 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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William H. . He lives in Saugerties, New York. Lawrence University. Cropper is Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at St
William H. With Great Physicists, readers can retrace the footsteps of the men and women who led the way.. In addition, Cropper has grouped these biographies by discipline--mechanics, thermodynamics, particle physics, and others--each section beginning with a historical overview. 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. Here is a lively history of modern physics, as seen through the lives of thirty men and women from the pantheon of physics. We meet scientists--all geniuses--who could be gregarious, aloof, unpretentious, friendly, dogged, imperious, generous to colleagues or contentious rivals.
"Highly recommended" according to Donald E. Fulton. This is an excellent book. Cropper must have put an enormous effort into researching and writing this 500 page, large format paperback, which has been nicely printed on white paper. At its current price of $12.97 an incredible bargain. At first glance this book appears to be sort of a strange hybrid of biography and science, but the combo works. Cropper generally starts a chapter on a scientist with . David S. said Five Stars. Wonderfully written. Five Stars frank snyder fine
Since this equation immortalized Dirac, it is high time to let it out of textbooks and into general circulation. Gilbert TaylorCopyright © American Library Association. Market-savvy publishers merely request that the math be confined to iconic equations, an f=ma here, an e=mc2 there. From Booklist Although genuine understanding of physical principles eludes the mathematically challenged, that has scarcely dented the popularity of biographies of physicists or their often best-selling general-interest works. Fear not that Cropper stands merely at the blackboard in this work; his reworking of the abundant extant biographical material enhances the appeal of his book for reflective science students. All rights reserved