Using an original approach, Mauro Dardo recounts the major achievements of twentieth-century physics--including relativity, quantum mechanics, atomic and nuclear physics, the invention of the transistor and the laser, superconductivity, binary pulsars, and the Bose-Einstein condensate--as each emerged. His year-by-year chronicle, biographies and revealing personal anecdotes help bring to life the main events since the first Nobel Prize was awarded in 1901. The work of the most famous physicists of the twentieth century--including 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. Mauro Dardo is Professor of Experimental Physics at Amedeo Avogadro University. He has served as Dean of the new Faculty of Sciences at the University of Turin in Alessandria, Piedmont, and has also served as Director of the university's new department of Sciences and Advanced Technologies.
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"The book is illustrated profusely with classic photographs of the physicists, along with diagrams and graphs to explicate their ideas. An appendix lists the prizes in chronological order. There is a glossary of useful physical terms, references, a select bibliography, and a good index. Highly recommended." CHOICE
"This is a fine history of physics in the 20th century, and also serves as a high-quality primer for the concepts that underlie quantum mechanics and the standard model of particle physics. Dardo has put together a well-illustrated, well-researched and interesting story." The Leading Edge
"This is a fine history of physics in the 20th century, and also serves as a high-quality primer for the concepts that underlie quantum mechanics and the standard model of particle physics. Dardo has put together a well-illustrated, well-researched and interesting story." The Leading Edge
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Mauro Dardo presents the major achievements of twentieth-century physics as they emerged as the product of the genius of those physicists whose labors, since 1901, have been crowned with a Nobel Prize. Dardo's year-by-year chronicle, biographies and personal anecdotes bring to life the main events of the past hundred years. The work of the most famous physicists of the twentieth century is presented, often in the words and imagery of the prize-winners themselves.
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Nobel Prize, Bell Labs, Cavendish Laboratory, Second World War, Columbia University, Niels Bohr, Swedish Academy of Sciences, Royal Society, University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi, Stanford University, University of California, National Academy of Sciences, Harvard University, Nobel Physics Committee, Albert Einstein, Big Bang, Max Planck, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Princeton University, University of Munich, Van Vleck, Wolfgang Pauli, Emilio Segrb Visual Archives, Emilio Segre Visual Archives New!
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