Remarkable Physicists : From Galileo to Yukawa.

The 250 years from the second half of the 17th century saw the birth of modern physics and its growth into one of the most successful of the sciences. The reader will find here the lives of 55 of the most remarkable physicists from that era described in brief biographies. All the characters profiled...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: James, Ioan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: West Nyack : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Temas:
Physicists > Biography.
Physics > History.
Physique > Histoire.
Physicists
Physics
Biographies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.

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