Book ID: CBB000201339

Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking (2002)

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Cropper, William H. (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2002
Physical Details: 512 pp., illus.
Language: English

Description Provides biographies of 30 prominent physicists.


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Review Bohren, Craig F. (2003) Review of "Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking". American Journal of Physics (p. 284). unapi

Review Lustig, Harry (2004) Review of "Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking". Physics in Perspective (p. 114). unapi

Review Gavin, Patrick (2004) Review of "Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking". Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science. unapi

Review Rigden, John S. (2002) Review of "Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 468). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
James, Ioan
Collinson, Diané
Wilkinson, Robert
Plant, Kathryn
Hart-Davis, Adam
Pais, Abraham
Journals
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology
Publishers
Routledge
National Portrait Gallery
Oxford University Press
Universal Academy Press
Cambridge University Press
Basic Books
Concepts
Collective biographies
Physics
Chemistry
Reference books
Science, general histories
Biographies
People
Thompson, Robert Means
Hybinette, Noak Victor
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Places
India
Russia
Korea
Tibet
China
Japan
Institutions
Stazione Zoologica di Napoli
Rossiiskaia Akademiia Nauk
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