Ten Physicists who Transformed our Understanding of Reality - Brossura

Evans, Rhodri; Clegg, Brian

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ISBN 10: 147212037X ISBN 13: 9781472120373

Casa editrice: Little, Brown Book Group, 2015

Riassunto

The intriguing lives and key works of the ten physicists who most profoundly transformed our understanding of the physical world in which we live

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Dr Rhodri Evans studied Physics at Imperial College London, graduating with First Class honours, before gaining his PhD in Astrophysics from Cardiff University. He has taught at the University of Toledo in the United States, at Swarthmore College and done post-doctoral research at the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory, 'the birthplace of modern astrophysics'. He is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Physics at the University of Namibia. Rhodri is the author of numerous academic papers as well as popular-science articles, he speaks regularly at conferences and is a regular contributor to the BBC on Physics and Astronomy. His popular blog can be found at thecuriousastronomer.wordpress.com.

BRIAN CLEGG is a prize-winning science writer with a physics degree from Cambridge and a masters in the mathematical discipline operational research. He has written over 20 science books and articles for newspapers and magazines from The Observer and Wall Street Journal to BBC Focus and Playboy. He lives in Wiltshire, England, with his wife and two children.

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Standing on the shoulders of giants . . . 400 years of scientific breakthroughs, from Galileo to Feynman

Physics is not only an exploration of the most profound questions about the universe, its practical applications have also transformed our everyday lives. Leading popular science writers Rhodri Evans and Brian Clegg present a chronological list of those seen as the top ten most significant physicists - Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Clerk Maxwell, Marie Curie, Rutherford, Einstein, Bohr, Dirac and Feynman - to trace and explain the most significant advances in physics over more than 400 years.

Some of these physicists are household names, others less well known, but each has made an extraordinary contribution to human knowledge. Evans and Clegg examine not only the scientific breakthroughs made by these scientists, but also their often fascinating lives - Curie laboriously sorting through tons of pitchblende to isolate radium, Bohr's frustration at Einstein's attempts to undermine quantum theory - helping to make the science more accessible.

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Ten Physicists Who Transformed Our Understanding of Reality

Rhodri Evans and Brian Clegg

With a foreword by Steven Weinberg

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Little, Brown Book Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 147212037X
• ISBN 13: 9781472120373
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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