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Here are fifteen pieces on the history and personalities of physics and related fields, from the well-known physicist and essayist Jeremy Bernstein. The pieces in this collection include profiles of Niels Bohr, Marie Curie, Linus Pauling, the linguist Hans Eberstark, and Julian Schwinger; essays on thought experiments, Einstein's scientific legacy, the early debate on black holes, and the cold fusion controversy; and some humorous short fiction. Most of this work has appeared in the New Yorker, Scientific American, or The Atlantic Monthly.
- Author:
- Jeremy Bernstein
- Publisher:
- Copernicus Books
- Publication Date:
- Aug 29, 1996
- Number of pages:
- 320 pages
- Binding:
- Hardback or Cased Book
- ISBN-10:
- 0387947000
- ISBN-13:
- 9780387947006