Overview
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
