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Author : Ioan James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521017060
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Remarkable Physicists written by Ioan James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-12 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text
Author : Magdolna Hargittai
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1783260890
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Candid Science Iv: Conversations With Famous Physicists written by Magdolna Hargittai and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2004-04-08 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Candid Science IV: Conversations with Famous Physicists contains 36 interviews with well-known physicists, including 20 Nobel laureates, Templeton Prize winners, Wolf Prize winners, and other luminaries. Physics has been one of the determining fields of science in the past 100 years, playing a conspicuous role not only in science but also in world politics and economics. These in-depth conversations provide a glimpse into the greatest achievements of physics during the past few decades, featuring stories of the discoveries, and showing the human drama behind them. The greatest physicists are brought into close human proximity as if readers were having a conversation with them. The interviewees span a wide range of scientists, from such early giants as Eugene Wigner and Mark Oliphant to members of the youngest generation such as the 2001 Nobel laureate Wolfgang Ketterle. The list includes famous personalities of our time, such as Steven Weinberg, Leon Lederman, Norman Ramsey, Edward Teller, John Wheeler, Mildred Dresselhaus, Maurice Goldhaber, Benoit Mandelbrot, John Polkinghorne, and Freeman Dyson./a
Author : George Gamow
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486257679
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (576 download)
Download or read book The Great Physicists from Galileo to Einstein written by George Gamow and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1988-10-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outstanding text by one of the 20th century's foremost physicists dramatically explains how the central laws of physical science evolved, from Pythagoras' discovery of frequency ratios in the 6th century BC to today's research on elementary particles. Includes fascinating biographical data about Galileo, Newton, Huygens, Einstein and others. 136 illustrations.
Author : James, Ioan Mackenzie James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Remarkable Physicists written by James, Ioan Mackenzie James and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Teresa Robeson
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
ISBN 13 : 1454941596
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (549 download)
Download or read book Queen of Physics written by Teresa Robeson and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Wu Chien Shiung, famous physicist who overcame prejudice to prove that she could be anything she wanted. “Wu Chien Shiung's story is remarkable—and so is the way this book does it justice.” —Booklist (Starred review) When Wu Chien Shiung was born in China 100 years ago, most girls did not attend school; no one considered them as smart as boys. But her parents felt differently. Giving her a name meaning “Courageous Hero,” they encouraged her love of learning and science. This engaging biography follows Wu Chien Shiung as she battles sexism and racism to become what Newsweek magazine called the “Queen of Physics” for her work on beta decay. Along the way, she earned the admiration of famous scientists like Enrico Fermi and Robert Oppenheimer and became the first woman hired as an instructor by Princeton University, the first woman elected President of the American Physical Society, the first scientist to have an asteroid named after her when she was still alive, and many other honors.
Author : István Hargittai
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195365569
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Martians of Science written by István Hargittai and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hargittai tells the story of five remarkable Hungarians: Wigner won a Nobel Prize in theoretical physics; Szilard was the first to see that a chain reaction based on neutrons was possible, initiated the Manhattan Project, but left physics to try to restrict nuclear arms; von Neumann could solve difficult problems in his head and developed the modern computer for more complex problems; von Kármán became the first director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, providing the scientific basis for the U.S. Air Force; and Teller was the father of the hydrogen bomb, whose name is now synonymous with the controversial "Star Wars" initiative of the 1980s.
Author : William H. Cropper
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195173246
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (732 download)
Download or read book Great Physicists written by William H. Cropper and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents profiles of thirty scientists, including Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Richard Feynman, and Edwin Hubble.
Author : William H. Cropper
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199832080
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Great Physicists written by William H. Cropper and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-16 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Alfred Leonard Mann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Famous Physicists written by Alfred Leonard Mann and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives and achievements of nine early physicists are followed by instructions for experiments similar in nature to those performed by the pioneer scientists. Grades 6-8.
Author : Richard P. Brennan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Heisenberg Probably Slept Here written by Richard P. Brennan and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the lives of eight physicists and details their contributions to the field especially during the twentieth century.
Author : Lawrence M. Krauss
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451624476
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book A Universe from Nothing written by Lawrence M. Krauss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how everything that exists came to be in the first place. “Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And finally, why is there something rather than nothing?” One of the few prominent scientists today to have crossed the chasm between science and popular culture, Krauss describes the staggeringly beautiful experimental observations and mind-bending new theories that demonstrate not only can something arise from nothing, something will always arise from nothing. With a new preface about the significance of the discovery of the Higgs particle, A Universe from Nothing uses Krauss’s characteristic wry humor and wonderfully clear explanations to take us back to the beginning of the beginning, presenting the most recent evidence for how our universe evolved—and the implications for how it’s going to end. Provocative, challenging, and delightfully readable, this is a game-changing look at the most basic underpinning of existence and a powerful antidote to outmoded philosophical, religious, and scientific thinking.
Author : Evgenii L'vovich L Feinberg
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814470066
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Physicists: Epoch And Personalities written by Evgenii L'vovich L Feinberg and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a collection of memoirs on famous Soviet physicists of the 20th century, such as Tamm, Vavilov, Sakharov, Landau and others. The memoirs were originally written in Russian by E L Feinberg. The narrative is situated within a remarkably well-described historical, cultural and social context. Of special interest are the chapters devoted to Soviet and German atomic projects.
Author : Graham Farmelo
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571250076
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book The Strangest Man written by Graham Farmelo and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2009-01-22 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael Frayn The Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called the British Einstein. He was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in twentieth-century science: quantum mechanics. The youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize for Physics, he was also pathologically reticent, strangely literal-minded and legendarily unable to communicate or empathize. Through his greatest period of productivity, his postcards home contained only remarks about the weather.Based on a previously undiscovered archive of family papers, Graham Farmelo celebrates Dirac's massive scientific achievement while drawing a compassionate portrait of his life and work. Farmelo shows a man who, while hopelessly socially inept, could manage to love and sustain close friendship.The Strangest Man is an extraordinary and moving human story, as well as a study of one of the most exciting times in scientific history. 'A wonderful book . . . Moving, sometimes comic, sometimes infinitely sad, and goes to the roots of what we mean by truth in science.' Lord Waldegrave, Daily Telegraph
Author : Ervin B. Podgorsak
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319253824
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)
Download or read book Radiation Physics for Medical Physicists written by Ervin B. Podgorsak and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook summarizes the basic knowledge of atomic, nuclear, and radiation physics that professionals working in medical physics and biomedical engineering need for efficient and safe use of ionizing radiation in medicine. Concentrating on the underlying principles of radiation physics, the textbook covers the prerequisite knowledge for medical physics courses on the graduate and post-graduate levels in radiotherapy physics, radiation dosimetry, imaging physics, and health physics, thus providing the link between elementary undergraduate physics and the intricacies of four medical physics specialties: diagnostic radiology physics, nuclear medicine physics, radiation oncology physics, and health physics. To recognize the importance of radiation dosimetry to medical physics three new chapters have been added to the 14 chapters of the previous edition. Chapter 15 provides a general introduction to radiation dosimetry. Chapter 16 deals with absolute radiation dosimetry systems that establish absorbed dose or some other dose related quantity directly from the signal measured by the dosimeter. Three absolute dosimetry techniques are known and described in detail: (i) calorimetric; (ii) chemical (Fricke), and (iii) ionometric. Chapter 17 deals with relative radiation dosimetry systems that rely on a previous dosimeter calibration in a known radiation field. Many relative radiation dosimetry systems have been developed to date and four most important categories used routinely in medicine and radiation protection are described in this chapter: (i) Ionometric dosimetry; (ii) Luminescence dosimetry; (iii) Semiconductor dosimetry; and (iv) Film dosimetry. The book is intended as a textbook for a radiation physics course in academic medical physics graduate programs as well as a reference book for candidates preparing for certification examinations in medical physics sub-specialties. It may also be of interest to many professionals, not only physicists, who in their daily occupations deal with various aspects of medical physics or radiation physics and have a need or desire to improve their understanding of radiation physics.
Author : Julio Antonio Gonzalo
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812383360
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Great Solid State Physicists of the 20th Century written by Julio Antonio Gonzalo and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2003 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 20th Century has been called the Century of Physics. It could be even more appropriate to call it the Century of Solid State Physics. All the technological developments which had changed the world by the end of the century had been based upon previous scientific developments in Solid State Physics. The Braggs, Debye, Bardeen, Landau were certainly at the forefront of all those revolutionary changes. Readership: Final-year undergraduates, graduate students, teachers, researchers working in materials physics, condensed matter/solid-state physics.
Author : Alfred B. Bortz
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438109806
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Physics written by Alfred B. Bortz and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a history of physics providing definitions and explanations of related topics and brief biographies of scientists of the twentieth century.
Author : Rhodri Evans
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472120388
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Ten Physicists who Transformed our Understanding of Reality written by Rhodri Evans and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed popular-science writer Brian Clegg and popular TV and radio astronomer Rhodri Evans give us a Top Ten list of physicists as the central theme to build an exploration of the most exciting breakthroughs in physics, looking not just at the science, but also the fascinating lives of the scientists themselves. The Top Ten are: 1.Isaac Newton (1642-1727) 2.Niels Bohr (1885-1962) 3.Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) 4.Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 5.James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) 6.Michael Faraday (1791-1867) 7.Marie Curie (1867-1934) 8.Richard Feynman (1918-1988) 9.Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) 10.Paul Dirac (1902-1984) Each of these figures has made a huge contribution to physics. Some are household names, others more of a mystery, but in each case there is an opportunity to combine a better understanding of the way that each of them has advanced our knowledge of the universe with an exploration of their often unusual, always interesting lives. Whether we are with Curie, patiently sorting through tons of pitchblende to isolate radium or feeling Bohr's frustration as once again Einstein attempts to undermine quantum theory, the combination of science and biography humanizes these great figures of history and makes the Physics itself more accessible. In exploring the way the list has been built the authors also put physics in its place amongst the sciences and show how it combines an exploration of the deepest and most profound questions about life and the universe with practical applications that have transformed our lives. The book is structured chronologically, allowing readers to follow the development of scientific knowledge over more than 400 years, showing clearly how this key group of individuals has fundamentally altered our understanding of the world around us.
