Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking
by Cropper, William H
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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 meetscientists--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 withfamily and friends, their religious beliefs and education...
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- Title
- Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking
- Author
- Cropper, William H
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- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0195173244
- ISBN 13
- 9780195173246
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- Oxford University Press, USA
- Place of Publication
- Cary, North Carolina, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- July 2, 2004
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