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"...A panoramic view of the physics landscape of the past century, in which are embedded an impressive number of major physics accomplishments. And [the book] describes these accomplishments in a language that is comprehensible to an educated reader with or without training in physics...In choice of topics, Bromley is about as complete as can be imagined...An immensely entertaining and illuminating read." PHYSICS TODAY
"Springer presents an expanded narrative with Bromley’s fine sampling of images of 20th-century physics...Bromley’s upbeat text will convince you that there’s a wealth of work to keep physicists busy while Super-K is put back together."
--American Scientist
"Pictures are the stars of this book, bringing the highly readable narrative to life. The reader’s eyes are spoiled by images...he covers topics as diverse as superconductivity and the evolution of computers...and covers the research activity of laboratories all around the world."
--www.cerncourier.com
PHYSICS TODAY
"The accomplishments of physics in the 20th century are among the most illustrious achievements of our civilization, and Bromley is certainly one of those advocates of physics with the credentials to articulate them. Given so nearly impossible a task, Bromley nevertheless manages to pull it off…in a language that is comprehensible to an educated reader with or without training in physics…In choice of topics, Bromley is about as complete as can be imagined…I found the volume to be an immensely entertaining and illuminating read, and I was greatly impressed by the amount of thought and just plain hard work the author imposed on himself to get it done.”
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Book Title: A Century of Physics
Authors: D. Allan Bromley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3689-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2002
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-95247-5Published: 14 December 2001
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-3691-5Published: 14 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-3689-2Published: 14 March 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 114
Number of Illustrations: 87 b/w illustrations, 41 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Jointly published with the American Physical Society
Topics: History of Science, Physics, general