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0195173244(pbk.)
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IR
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E-3034
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION OR PRODUCTlON
Country of publication
IR
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Great physicists
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
:the life and times of leading physicists from Galileo to Hawking
First Statement of Responsibility
/ William H. Cropper
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
1st pbk ed.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Oxford ;New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2001.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xii, 500 p. , ill. , 26 cm.
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
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Print
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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 Schreodinger,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. i[gamma] س [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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Physicists, Biography
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
QC15
Book number
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C76
2004
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Cropper, William H.
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