Remarkable Physicists: From Galileo to Yukawa

Ioan James, quot;Remarkable Physicists: From Galileo to Yukawa quot;
Cambridge University Press | 2004 | ISBN: 0521816874 | 406 pages | File type: PDF | 2,4 mb
This book is ideal for anyone who would like to read about the lives of some of the most remarkable physicists born since the second half of the seventeenth century. Each of the fifty-five physicists profiled have made important contributions to physics, through their ideas and teaching, or in other ways. The biographies are arranged chronologically by the physicists' dates of birth, so that, when read in sequence, they convey how physics developed over time. However, the book emphasizes their varied life stories, not the details of their achievements. Ioan James is Professor at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. He is the author of Remarkable Mathematicians (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and Topological and Uniform Spaces (Springer-Verlag, 1999).


Table of Contents: Preface Prologue 1 From Galileo to Daniel Bernoulli 1 Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) 1 Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) 8 Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) 16 Isaac Newton (1642-1726) 21 Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782) 31 2 From Franklin to Laplace 36 Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) 36 Roger Joseph Boscovich (1711-1787) 47 Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) 56 Charles Augustin Coulomb (1736-1806) 60 Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827) 65 3 From Rumford to Oersted 74 Sir Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) (1753-1814) 74 Jean-Baptiste Fourier (1768-1830) 85 Thomas Young (1773-1829) 90 Andre-Marie Ampere (1775-1836) 97 Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851) 102 4 From Ohm to Helmholtz 107 Georg Ohm (1789-1854) 107 Michael Faraday (1791-1867) 112 George Green (1793-1841) 119 Joseph Henry (1797-1878) 125 Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) 132 5 From Kelvin to Boltzmann William Thomson (Lord Kelvin of Largs) (1824-1907) 141 James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) 150 J. Willard Gibbs (1839-1903) 157 John William Strutt (Lord Rayleigh) (1842-1919) 163 Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906) 168 6 From Rontgen to Marie Curie 177 Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen (1845-1923) 177 Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940) 183 Max Planck (1858-1947) 192 William Henry Bragg (1862-1942) 199 Marie Curie (1867-1934) 208 7 From Millikan to Einstein 221 Robert Millikan (1868-1953) 221 Ernest Rutherford (Lord Rutherford) (1871-1937) 227 Lise Meitner (1878-1968) 234 Otto Hahn (1879-1968) 242 Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 247 8 From Ehrenfest to Schrodinger 259 Paul Ehrenfest (1880-1933) 259 Max Born (1882-1970) 266 Niels Bohr (1885-1962) 273 Frederick Lindemann (Lord Cherwell) (1886-1957) 284 Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961) 295 9 From de Broglie to Fermi 307 Louis de Broglie (1892-1987) 307 Satyendranath Bose (1894-1974) 313 Piotr Leonidovich Kapitza (1894-1984) 320 Jean-Frederic Joliot (1900-1958) 327 Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) 335 10 From Heisenberg to Yukawa 343 Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) 343 Paul Dirac (1902-1984) 353 J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) 359 Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972) 364 Hideki Yukawa (1907-1981) 369 Epilogue 375 Further Reading 379 Collections 385 Acknowledgements 387
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