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| I | Mechanics : historical synopsis | 3 |
| 1 | How the heavens go : Galileo Galilei | 5 |
| 2 | A man obsessed : Isaac Newton | 18 |
| II | Thermodynamics : historical synopsis | 41 |
| 3 | A tale of two revolutions : Sadi Carnot | 43 |
| 4 | On the dark side : Robert Mayer | 51 |
| 5 | A holy undertaking : James Joule | 59 |
| 6 | Unities and a unifier : Hermann Helmholtz | 71 |
| 7 | The scientist as virtuoso : William Thomson | 78 |
| 8 | The road to entropy : Rudolf Clausius | 93 |
| 9 | The greatest simplicity : Willard Gibbs | 106 |
| 10 | The last law : Walther Nernst | 124 |
| III | Electromagnetism : historical synopsis | 135 |
| 11 | A force of nature : Michael Faraday | 137 |
| 12 | The scientist as magician : James Clerk Maxwell | 154 |
| IV | Statistical mechanics : historical synopsis | 177 |
| 13 | Molecules and entropy : Ludwig Boltzmann | 179 |
| V | Relativity : historical synopsis | 201 |
| 14 | Adventure in thought : Albert Einstein | 203 |
| VI | Quantum mechanics : historical synopsis | 229 |
| 15 | Reluctant revolutionary : Max Planck | 231 |
| 16 | Science by conversation : Niels Bohr | 242 |
| 17 | The scientist as critic : Wolfgang Pauli | 256 |
| 18 | Matrix mechanics : Werner Heisenberg | 263 |
| 19 | Wave mechanics : Erwin Schrodinger and Louis de Broglie | 275 |
| VII | Nuclear physics : historical synopsis | 293 |
| 20 | Opening doors : Marie Curie | 295 |
| 21 | On the crest of a wave : Ernest Rutherford | 308 |
| 22 | Physics and friendships : Lise Meitner | 330 |
| 23 | Complete physicist : Enrico Fermi | 344 |
| VIII | Particle physics : historical synopsis | 363 |
| 24 | i[gamma][actual symbol not reproducible][psi] : m[psi]: Paul Dirac | 365 |
| 25 | What do you care? : Richard Feynman | 376 |
| 26 | Telling the tale of the quarks : Murray Gell-Mann | 403 |
| IX | Astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology : historical synopsis | 421 |
| 27 | Beyond the galaxy : Edwin Hubble | 423 |
| 28 | Ideal scholar : Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | 438 |
| 29 | Affliction, fame, and fortune : Stephen Hawking | 452 |
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Everett Dague
reviewed Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking on August 03, 2014
Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking
This was a phenomenal read, great conceptual and at times technical overview of the progression of physics, and sadly the digression of good moral character in physicists, that is something I hope to change!
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