Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking

摘要: Here is a lively history of modern physics, as seen through the lives thirty men and women from pantheon physics. William H. Cropper vividly portrays life accomplishments such giants Galileo Isaac Newton, Marie Curie Ernest Rutherford Albert Einstein, right up to contemporary figures Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, Stephen Hawking. We meet scientists, all geniuses, who could be gregarious, aloof, unpretentious, friendly, dogged, imperious, generous colleagues, or contentious rivals. also offers vivid portraits their great moments discovery, bitter feuds, relations with family friends, religious beliefs education. In addition, since scientists in particular field often inspire those follow, has grouped these biographies by discipline mechanics, thermodynamics, particle so on each section beginning historical overview. Ernes Our understanding physical world increased dramatically last four centuries, starting his telescope stretching Hawking's work black holes cosmology. With Great Physicists, readers can retrace footsteps led way. t