physicists

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physicists

Einstein

his life and universe
2007
Draws from Albert Einstein's personal letters to tell his life story and examine his way of thinking, exploring his methods of questioning the world and showing how this shaped his politics and morality.

Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity

1987
Traces the life and work of the physicist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking.

Northern Lights

2013
Examines the glowing colors as they change shape, fade and then brighten the night sky.

Albert Einstein

2002
Describes the life and work of the twentieth-century physicist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking.

Michael Faraday

2003
Examines the life and accomplishments of the nineteenth-century English physicist whose religious beliefs guided his exploration of electricity, magnetism, and light.

Suspended in language

Niels Bohr's life, discoveries, and the century he shaped
2009
A biography of twentieth-century Danish physicist Niels Bohr, the father of quantum mechanics, in comic-book format.

Plastic fantastic

how the biggest fraud in physics shook the scientific world
2009
Discusses the scientific scandal that arose when researchers at Bell Laboratories discovered that wunderkind physicist Jan Hendrik Sch?n falsified his data to prove that he had discovered a simpler way to make transistors, which would have drastically improved energy technology.

The clockwork universe

Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the birth of the modern world
2012
Examines how, at the end of the seventeenth century, a group of geniuses that included Isaac Newton re-imagined the field of science by finding intricate and precise patterns that regulated the world and the chaos that seemed to exist in it.

Newton

2006
Examines the life and work of influential, seventeenth-century scientist Sir Isaac Newton.

Exploring the origins of the universe

1997
Discusses various beliefs about the origin and nature of the universe and the studies of such scientists as Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Einstein, who have advanced our understanding of the universe.

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