Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics

by Mauro Dardo

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521540089
• ISBN13: 9780521540087
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 533 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.5"