physicists

Published in conjunction with the BBC/WGBH television series Oppenheimer, produced by Peter Goodchild and written by Peter Prince.

A narrative history of the competition between two Nobel laureates, one a Nazi and the other an American, to be the first to develop the atomic bomb.

Illuminates his role as a consultant to the United States Government on matters of atomic energy and his unpopular reversal concerning the use of nuclear weapons.

Presents a brief biography of J.J Thomson, the man who discovered electrons, in simple text with illustrations, and includes education, training, and accomplishments in chemistry. Includes chronology and glossary.

Describes the theoretical work of the outstanding British physicist Stephen Hawking, who has done noteworthy work in cosmology.

Chronicles the life of pioneering seventeenth-century scientist Isaac Newton, describing the world in which he lived, examining the contradictory elements of his personality, and discussing his place in history.

Contains an illustrated version of the suspense tale where World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol that has been seared into the chest of a murdered physicist.

The biography of the German physicist who accidentally discovered the x ray and won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1901.

A biography of the American physicist responsible for many of the underlying principles of modern rocketry. Includes instructions for a model multistage rocket and an explanation of rocket flight.