Remarkable Physicists: From Galileo to Yukawa

Ioan James0521017068

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).

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Table of contents :
Preface……Page 10
Prologue……Page 12
1 From Galileo to Daniel Bernoulli……Page 18
2 From Franklin to Laplace……Page 53
3 From Rumford to Oersted……Page 91
4 From Ohm to Helmholtz……Page 124
5 From Kelvin to Boltzmann……Page 158
6 From Ro¨ ntgen to Marie Curie……Page 194
7 From Millikan to Einstein……Page 238
8 From Ehrenfest to Schro¨ dinger……Page 276
9 From de Broglie to Fermi……Page 324
10 From Heisenberg to Yukawa……Page 360
Epilogue……Page 392
Further Reading……Page 396
Collections……Page 402
Acknowledgements……Page 404