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Understanding Physics by David C. Cassidy 9781475777000
RRP: €65.44Booksplease Price: €61.88Understanding Physics provides a thorough grounding in contemporary physics while placing physics into its social and historical context. Based in large part on the highly respected Project Physics... -
Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb by David C. Cassidy
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.83"A fascinating, well-documented biography." --New York Times Book Review "A monumental effort." --New York Review of Books "An excellent piece of science writing...Cassidy does not so much... -
Farm Hall and the German Atomic Project of World War II: A Dramatic History by David C. Cassidy 9783319595771
RRP: €41.64Booksplease Price: €33.12This gripping book brings back to life the events surrounding the internment of ten German Nuclear Scientists immediately after World War II. It is also an "eye-witness" account of the dawning of the... -
A Living Work of Art: The Life and Science of Hendrik Antoon Lorentz by A. J. Kox 9780198870500
Booksplease Price: €75.87Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was one of the greatest physicists and mathematicians the Netherlands has ever known. Einstein called him "a living work of art, a perfect personality". During his funeral in... -
Einstein's Miraculous Year: Five Papers That Changed the Face of Physics by Albert Einstein
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.53After 1905, Einstein's miraculous year, physics would never be the same again. In those twelve months, Einstein shattered many cherished scientific beliefs with five extraordinary papers that would... -
Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius by Silvan S. Schweber
RRP: €32.07Booksplease Price: €28.06Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer, two iconic scientists of the twentieth century, belonged to different generations, with the boundary marked by the advent of quantum mechanics. By exploring... -
Heavy Water and the Wartime Race for Nuclear Energy by Per Fridtjof Dahl 9780367400019
RRP: €80.91Booksplease Price: €74.90Heavy water (deuterium oxide) played a sinister role in the race for nuclear energy during the World War II. It was a key factor in Germany's bid to harness atomic energy primarily as a source of... -
Einstein's Dice and Schroedinger's Cat: How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics by Paul Halpern 9780465096831
Booksplease Price: €14.61When the fuzzy indeterminacy of quantum mechanics overthrew the orderly world of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Erwin Schroedinger were at the forefront of the revolution. Neither man was ever...