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The evolution of physics
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Albert Einstein |
The book is a simple chat between you and us. You may find it boring or interesting, dull or exciting, but our aim will be accomplished if these pages give you some idea of the eternal struggle of t… |
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Subtle Is the Lord
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Abraham Pais |
A biography of Albert Einstein, told through various scientific and technical correspondences, including those with Michele Besso. Pais discusses the world of physics before Einstein, during Einstein… |
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Haphazard reality
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Hendrik Casimir |
Casimir, himself a famous physician, studied and worked with three great physicists of the twentieth century: Niels Bohr, Wolfgang Pauli and Paul Ehrenfest. In his autobiography, the brilliant theore… |
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Let there be light
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Alex Montwill |
"This book is the first of its kind to devote itself at this level to the key role played by light and electromagnetic radiation in the universe. Readers are introduced to philosophical hypotheses su… |
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Interpreting Newton
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Andrew Janiak |
"This collection of specially commissioned essays by leading scholars presents new research on Isaac Newton and his main philosophical interlocutors and critics. The essays analyze Newton's relation … |
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The Great Beyond
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Paul Halpern |
The concept of multiple unperceived dimensions in the universe is one of the hottest topics in contemporary physics. It is essential to current attempts to explain gravity and the underlying structur… |
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A Century of Physics
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D. Allan Bromley |
In this amazing tour d'horizon, D. Allan Bromley uses the occasion of the centenary of the American Physical Society to reflect upon the growth of physics over the past 100 years, its fragmentation i… |
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Kettenreaktion
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Hubert Mania |
1896 spürte Henri Becquerel im Uran eine seltsame Strahlung auf, die Marie Curie Radioaktivität nannte. In den folgenden Jahrzehnten lieferten die deutschen Physiker Max Planck, Albert Einstein und W… |
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Nuclear physicist Chien-Shiung Wu
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Valerie Bodden |
Experimental physicist Chien-Shiung Wu has been called the "Queen of Nuclear Research." Born in China in the early 20th century, Wu moved to the United States to study physics after graduating from c… |
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From Certainty to Uncertainty
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F. David Peat |
"Early Theorists believed that science promised certainty. Built on a foundation of fact and constructed with objective and trustworthy tools, science consistently produced knowledge. Then disturbing… |
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