Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics [Paperback]

This richly-illustrated 2004 book presents a year-by-year chronicle of the Nobel prize in Physics since 1901.Mauro Dardo presents the major achievements of twentieth-century physics as they emerged as the product of the genius of those physicists whose labors, since 1901, have been crowned with a Nobel Prize. Dardo's year-by-year chronicle, biographies and personal anecdotes bring to life the main events of the past hundred years. The work of the most famous physicists of the twentieth century is presented, often in the words and imagery of the prize-winners themselves.Mauro Dardo presents the major achievements of twentieth-century physics as they emerged as the product of the genius of those physicists whose labors, since 1901, have been crowned with a Nobel Prize. Dardo's year-by-year chronicle, biographies and personal anecdotes bring to life the main events of the past hundred years. The work of the most famous physicists of the twentieth century is presented, often in the words and imagery of the prize-winners themselves.Using an original approach, Mauro Dardo recounts the major achievements of twentieth-century physics--including relativity, quantum mechanics, atomic and nuclear physics, the invention of the transistor and the laser, superconductivity, binary pulsars, and the Bose-Einstein condensate--as each emerged. His year-by-year chronicle, biographies and revealing personal anecdotes help bring to life the main events since the first Nobel Prize was awarded in 1901. The work of the most famous physicists of the twentieth century--including the Curies, Bohr, Heisenberg, Einstein, Fermi, Feynman, Gell-Mann, Rutherford, and Schrödinger--is presented, often in the words and imagery of the prize-winners themselves. Mauro Dardo is Professor of Experimental Physics at Amedeo Avogadro University. He has served as Dean of the new Faculty of Sciences at the University of Turin in Alessandria, Piedmont, and has also served as Director of the university'lóc