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NOBEL LAUREATES AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY PHYSICS
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| By: |
Mauro Dardo |
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Paperback |
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£57.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521540089 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521540087 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
14 October, 2004 |
| Pages: |
546 |
| Description: |
This richly-illustrated 2004 book presents a year-by-year chronicle of the Nobel prize in Physics since 1901. |
| Synopsis: |
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 Schrodinger - is presented, often in the words and imagery of the prize-winners themselves. |
| Illustrations: |
223 b/w illus. 3 tables |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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Returnable |
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