physicists

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physicists

Albert Einstein and the frontiers of physics

1996
Examines the personality as well as the thought process which led this physicist to his discoveries which have helped shape our understanding of the natural world.

Albert Einstein

2002
A collection of essays and primary source documents which profile the life and work of scientist Albert Einstein and discusses how his discoveries affected world history.

Niels Bohr

physicist and humanitarian
2003
A biography of the Danish physicist who won a Nobel Prize for his discoveries about the nature of the atom, saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis, and, after helping to develop the atomic bomb, campaigned for peaceful uses of atomic energy.

Michael Faraday

physics and faith
2000
A biography of the nineteenth-century English scientist whose religious beliefs guided his exploration of electricity and magnetism.

Galileo Galilei

first physicist
1997
Examines the personality, thought processes, scientific discoveries, and life of an important figure who helped to shape our understanding of the natural world.

Humans

2003
In this sequel to Hominids, the Neanderthal physicist Ponder Boddit, a character you will never forget, returns to our world and to his relationship with geneticist Mary Vaughn, as cultural exchanges between the two Earths begin.

As she climbed across the table

1998
Anthropologist Philip Engstrand watches his relationship with a female particle-physicist deteriorate when she begins spending her time studying a possible portal to another world.

Faust in Copenhagen

a struggle for the soul of physics
2008
Physicist Gino Gegr? profiles the lives and careers of seven physicists whose work in the 1930s changed the face of modern physics.

"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!"

adventures of a curious character
1985
A collection of often humorous anecdotes about the 1965 Nobel Prize winner for physics.

Isaac Newton

el mis?ntropo genial
2004
Chronicles the life of seventeenth-century mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton, discussing his world, his work, and his legacy.

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