A genius, a great mathematician once said, performs magic, does things that nobody else could do. To his scientific colleagues, Richard Feynman was a magician of the highest caliber. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic critic of the…
"A genius, a great mathematician once said, performs magic, does things that nobody else could do. To his scientific colleagues, Richard Feynman was a magician of the highest caliber. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic critic of th…
Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam -- Igor Evgenjevich Tamm -- Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov -- Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov -- Mikhail Aleksandrovich Leontovich -- Aleksandr L'vovich Mintz -- Niels Hendrik David Bohr -- Werner Karl Heisenbeg -- What Brought Hitler to Power? And Who? -- Lev…
"Isaac Newton is celebrated as one of the world's greatest scientific geniuses, a legendary hero who was inspired to rewrite nature's laws by watching a falling apple. Renowned for his revolutionary ideas on gravity and optics, Newton has become a scientific icon for our modern …
Abraham Pais's life of Albert Einstein was one of the finest scientific biographies ever written. When it first appeared in 1982, Christian Science Monitor called it "an extraordinary biography of an extraordinary man," and Timothy Ferris, in The New York Times Book Review, said…
In the Shadow of the Bomb narrates how two charismatic, exceptionally talented physicists--J. Robert Oppenheimer and Hans A. Bethe--came to terms with the nuclear weapons they helped to create. In 1945, the United States dropped the bomb, and physicists were forced to contemplat…
Includes material on the history of the atomic bomb and the hydrogen bomb; the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; secrecy in physics; Ernest Orlando Lawrence; radiation hazards; Chernobyl; China syndrome; and "the rode of the scientist."
Includes material on the history of the atomic bomb and the hydrogen bomb; the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; secrecy in physics; Ernest Orlando Lawrence; radiation hazards; Chernobyl; China syndrome; and "the role of the scientist."