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The particle century
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The particle century
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From the first attempts to split the atom to the discovery of the top quark, the 20th century has witnessed a revolution in basic physics. Probing successively smaller constituents of matter has also revealed the conditions present at the time of the Big Bang. In a series of ess…
A review of the status of particle physics at the end of the century. The text explains the achievements in particle physics, the 20 essays covering the post war period to the 1990s.
A review of the status of particle physics at the end of the century. The text explains the achievements in particle physics, the 20 essays covering the post war period to the 1990s.
This biography looks at the enigmatic American scientist who built the atomic bomb and explains his rise and fall as an important part of the social, cultural and political turmoil of 20th century America.
Om den danske fysiker Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
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…
Describes in human, political, and scientific detail the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the power of the atom, to the first bombs dropped on Japan.