physicists

Presents a brief, illustrated, biography of physcist, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the leader of the team of scientists that developed and constructed the world's first atomic bomb.

A biography of the physicist whose theories of relativity revolutionized the way we look at space and time.

Describes the life and work of the scientist who was persecuted by the Inquisition for his views of the universe.

A brief, illustrated biography of scientist Stephen Hawking that describes his life and education, scientific work on black holes, and how he lives with the disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Presents a photographic introduction to the life and accomplishments of Albert Einstein, one of the most significant scientists of the twentieth century, discussing his boyhood, schooling, early career, family, and discoveries in the field of physics.

Explains how the work of scientists Max Delbr?ck and George Gamow in the 1940s and 1950s helped pave the way for modern geneticists and physicists, discussing their breakthroughs in understanding how parents transmit genetic traits to offspring and how stars generate energy and why their work was not recognized until much later.

Chronicles the life of physics professor John Vincent Atanasoff, who, in the late 1930s, devised a method of using the binary number system and electrical switches to create the world's first computing device, and describes how his ideas were stolen and used by the people commonly credited with creating the computer.

World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol seared into the chest of a murder victim, where he discovers evidence of the resurgence of an ancient brotherhood with a vendetta against the Catholic Church.

After teenage Sri Lankan Ranjit Subramanian, a math prodigy, reconstructs and publishes the famous last theorem of Pierre de Fermat, the powerful aliens called the Grand Galactics respond to the flash of nuclear explosions and decide to exterminate humanity just as Earth's superpowers develop a new, nonlethal, way of promoting global peace.

Presents the life and work of the famous sixteenth-century Italian astronomer and physicist.