ISBN: 9780387947006

Here are fifteen pieces on the history and personalities of physics and related fields, from the well-known physicist and essayist Jeremy Bernstein. The pieces in this collection include profiles of Niels Bohr, Marie Curie, Linus Pauling, the linguist Hans Eberstark, and Julian Schwinger; essays on thought experiments, Einstein's scientific legacy, the early debate on black holes, and the cold fusion controversy; and some humorous short fiction. Most of this work has appeared in the New Yorker, Scientific American, or The Atlantic Monthly. Books > Physics Hard cover, Springer Shop

1996, ISBN: 9780387947006

'...heartily recommended as being as fine an example as one can hope to find of expository writing on science. The profiles of the giants of modern science, not to mention the wonderful accounts of earlier titans of physics, certainly make the book a best-buy on the popular science shelf.' -NEW SCIENTIST 'an eclectic collection of essays...a well written work, as one expect(s) from a writer of Bernsteins caliber; recommended...' -LIBRARY JOURNAL Buch (fremdspr.) Jeremy Bernstein gebundene Ausgabe, Springer Us, 29.08.1996, Springer Us, 1996

ISBN: 9780387947006

...heartily recommended as being as fine an example as one can hope to find of expository writing on science. The profiles of the giants of modern science, not to mention the wonderful accounts of earlier titans of physics, certainly make the book a best-buy on the popular science shelf. -NEW SCIENTIST an eclectic collection of essays...a well written work, as one expect(s) from a writer of Bernsteins caliber; recommended... -LIBRARY JOURNAL; History, Springer

ISBN: 0387947000

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