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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Cropper, William H.     Subjects     Physicists -- Biography     Browse Catalog     by author:      Cropper, William H.       by title:      Great physicists : t...         MARC Display

Great physicists : the life and times of leading physicists from Galileo to Hawking / William H. Cropper. by Cropper, William H. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. Subjects Physicists -- Biography ISBN:  0195137485 (alk. paper) : 0195173244 (pbk.) : Description:  xii, 500 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Contents:  Mechanics. Historical synopsis. How the heavens go / Galileo Galilei -- A man obsessed / Isaac Newton. Thermodynamics. Historical synopsis. A tale of two revolutions / Sadi Carnot -- On the dark side / Robert Mayer -- A holy undertaking / James Joule -- Unities and a unifier / Hermann Helmholtz -- The scientist as virtuoso / William Thomson -- The road to entropy / Rudolf Clausius -- The greatest simplicity / Willard Gibbs -- The last law / Walther Nernst. Electromagnetism. Historical synopsis. A force of nature / Michael Faraday -- The scientist as magician / James Clerk Maxwell. Statistical mechanics. Historical synopsis. Molecules and entropy / Ludwig Boltzmann. Relativity. Historical synopsis. Adventure in thought / Albert Einstein. Quantum mechanics. Historical synopsis. Reluctant revolutionary / Max Planck -- Science by conversation / Niels Bohr -- The scientist as critic / Wolfgang Pauli -- Matrix mechanics / Werner Heisenberg -- Wave mechanics / Erwin Schrodinger and Louis de Broglie. Nuclear physics. Historical synopsis. Opening doors / Marie Curie -- On the crest of a wave / Ernest Rutherford -- Physics and friendships / Lise Meitner -- Complete physicist / Enrico Fermi. Particle physics. Historical synopsis. igcs - [delta] [psi] = m [psi] / Paul Dirac -- What do you care? / Richard Feynman -- Telling the tale of the quarks / Murray Gell-Mann. Astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology. Historical synopsis. Beyond the galaxy / Edwin Hubble -- Ideal scholar / Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar -- Affliction, fame, and fortune / Stephen Hawking. Requests:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii Kai Public Library YA -- Nonfiction 530.092 Cr Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 530.092 Cr Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library R -- Business, Science & Tech. 530.092 Cr Non Circulating Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 530.092 Cr Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Nonfiction 530.092 Cr Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapaa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 530.092 Cr Checked In Add Copy to MyList Lihue Public Library Adult Nonfiction 530.092 Cr Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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