Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics

In this richly-illustrated 2004 book the author combines history with real science. Using an original approach he presents the major achievements of twentieth-century physics - for example relativity quantum mechanics atomic and nuclear physics the invention of the transistor and the laser superconductivity binary pulsars and the Bose-Einstein condensate - each as they emerged as the product of the genius of those physicists whose labours since 1901 have been crowned with a Nobel Prize. Here in the form of a year-by-year chronicle biographies and revealing personal anecdotes help bring to life the main events of the past hundred years. The work of the most famous physicists of the twentieth century - great names like the Curies Bohr Heisenberg Einstein Fermi Feynman Gell-Mann Rutherford and Schrdinger - is presented often in the words and imagery of the prize-winners themselves.