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Remarkable Physicists : From Galileo to Yukawa.
Title:
Remarkable Physicists : From Galileo to Yukawa.
Author:
James, Ioan.
ISBN:
9780511163692
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (407 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue -- 1 From Galileo to Daniel Bernoulli -- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) -- Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) -- Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) -- Isaac Newton (1642-1726) -- Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782) -- 2 From Franklin to Laplace -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) -- Roger Joseph Boscovich (1711-1787) -- Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) -- Charles Augustin Coulomb (1736-1806) -- Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827) -- 3 From Rumford to Oersted -- Sir Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) (1753-1814) -- Jean-Baptiste Fourier (1768-1830) -- Thomas Young (1773-1829) -- Andrè-Marie Ampère (1775-1836) -- Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851) -- 4 From Ohm to Helmholtz -- Georg Ohm (1789-1854) -- Michael Faraday (1791-1867) -- George Green (1793-1841) -- Joseph Henry (1797-1878) -- Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) -- 5 From Kelvin to Boltzmann -- William Thomson (Lord Kelvin of Largs) (1824-1907) -- James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) -- J.Willard Gibbs (1839-1903) -- John William Strutt (Lord Rayleigh) (1842-1919) -- Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906) -- 6 From Röntgen to Marie Curie -- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923) -- Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940) -- Max Planck (1858-1947) -- William Henry Bragg (1862-1942) -- Marie Curie (1867-1934) -- 7 From Millikan to Einstein -- Robert Millikan (1868-1953) -- Ernest Rutherford (Lord Rutherford) (1871-1937) -- Lise Meitner (1878-1968) -- Otto Hahn (1879-1968) -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) -- 8 From Ehrenfest to Schrodinger ̈-- Paul Ehrenfest (1880-1933) -- Max Born (1882-1970) -- Niels Bohr (1885-1962) -- Frederick Lindemann (Lord Cherwell) (1886-1957) -- Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961) -- 9 From de Broglie to Fermi -- Louis de Broglie (1892-1987) -- Satyendranath Bose (1894-1974) -- Piotr Leonidovich Kapitza (1894-1984) -- Jean-Frédéric Joliot (1900-1958).

Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) -- 10 From Heisenberg to Yukawa -- Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) -- Paul Dirac (1902-1984) -- J.Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) -- Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972) -- Hideki Yukawa (1907-1981) -- Epilogue -- Further Reading -- Collections -- Acknowledgements.
Abstract:
Portrayals of 55 physicists, which collectively convey how the subject developed into its modern form.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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