The Harvest of a Century: Discoveries of Modern Physics in 100 Episodes

by Siegmund Brandt

Physics was the leading science of the twentieth century and the book retraces important discoveries, made between 1895 and 2001, in 100 self-contained episodes. Each is a short story of the scientists involved, their time, and their work. Together they form a mosaic of modern physics: formulating relativity and quantum mechanics, finding the constituents of matter and unravelling the forces between them, understanding the working of conductors and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199673780
• ISBN13: 9780199673780
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 2.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.6"