Literature on the History of Physics in the 20th Century
Author: J. L. Heilbron
Publisher: University of California, Office for History of Science & Technology
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 516
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: J. L. Heilbron
Publisher: University of California, Office for History of Science & Technology
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 516
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Helge Kragh
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2002-03-24
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9780691095523
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At the end of the nineteenth century, some physicists believed that the basic principles underlying their subject were already known, and that physics in the future would only consist of filling in the details. They could hardly have been more wrong. The past century has seen the rise of quantum mechanics, relativity, cosmology, particle physics, and solid-state physics, among other fields. These subjects have fundamentally changed our understanding of space, time, and matter. They have also transformed daily life, inspiring a technological revolution that has included the development of radio, television, lasers, nuclear power, and computers. In Quantum Generations, Helge Kragh, one of the world's leading historians of physics, presents a sweeping account of these extraordinary achievements of the past one hundred years. The first comprehensive one-volume history of twentieth-century physics, the book takes us from the discovery of X rays in the mid-1890s to superstring theory in the 1990s. Unlike most previous histories of physics, written either from a scientific perspective or from a social and institutional perspective, Quantum Generations combines both approaches. Kragh writes about pure science with the expertise of a trained physicist, while keeping the content accessible to nonspecialists and paying careful attention to practical uses of science, ranging from compact disks to bombs. As a historian, Kragh skillfully outlines the social and economic contexts that have shaped the field in the twentieth century. He writes, for example, about the impact of the two world wars, the fate of physics under Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin, the role of military research, the emerging leadership of the United States, and the backlash against science that began in the 1960s. He also shows how the revolutionary discoveries of scientists ranging from Einstein, Planck, and Bohr to Stephen Hawking have been built on the great traditions of earlier centuries. Combining a mastery of detail with a sure sense of the broad contours of historical change, Kragh has written a fitting tribute to the scientists who have played such a decisive role in the making of the modern world.
Author: David C. Cassidy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013-09-02
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0674725824
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As the twentieth century ended, computers, the Internet, and nanotechnology were central to modern American life. Yet the physical advances underlying these applications are poorly understood and underappreciated by U.S. citizens. In this overview, Cassidy views physics through America's engagement with the political events of a tumultuous century.
Author: Mauro Dardo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-10-14
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9780521540087
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this richly-illustrated 2004 book the author combines history with real science. Using an original approach he presents the major achievements of twentieth-century physics - for example, relativity, quantum mechanics, atomic and nuclear physics, the invention of the transistor and the laser, superconductivity, binary pulsars, and the Bose-Einstein condensate - each as they emerged as the product of the genius of those physicists whose labours, since 1901, have been crowned with a Nobel Prize. Here, in the form of a year-by-year chronicle, biographies and revealing personal anecdotes help bring to life the main events of the past hundred years. The work of the most famous physicists of the twentieth century - great names, like the Curies, Bohr, Heisenberg, Einstein, Fermi, Feynman, Gell-Mann, Rutherford, and Schrödinger - is presented, often in the words and imagery of the prize-winners themselves.
Author: Karoly Simonyi
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2012-01-25
Total Pages: 644
ISBN-13: 1439865116
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While the physical sciences are a continuously evolving source of technology and of understanding about our world, they have become so specialized and rely on so much prerequisite knowledge that for many people today the divide between the sciences and the humanities seems even greater than it was when C. P. Snow delivered his famous 1959 lecture,
Author: Mario Gliozzi
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2022-03-22
Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 152758125X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book tells the fascinating story of physics starting from the 19th century, from the wave theory of light, thermodynamics, and electromagnetism, up to the discoveries of the 20th century. It investigates the frequently contrasting ideas and the raging arguments that led to our current understanding of the physical world, from the theory of relativity to quantum mechanics.
Author: MILLER
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Published: 2013-12-21
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 1468405454
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Desmond Bernal
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publishing
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780760706015
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Curt Suplee
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Documenting one of the most remarkable flowerings of knowledge in human history, Suplee explains experiments and achievements of scientific innovators. 225 illustrations, 125 in full color. Explains and illustrates the flowering of physics in the 20th century, with spectacular color photos. Shows how theories about properties of matter were confirmed by ingenious experiments, which in turn spawned practical devices that transformed technology. Achievements of many of this century's greatest thinkers are described. Extraordinary illustrative material focuses on remarkable images, from the atomic to the cosmic scale, that are made possible by the instruments of advanced physics. Also included are photographs of experimental equipment and pioneering inventors. For general readers.