Delphi Classics, 2024. — 2861 р. — ISBN: 978 1 80170 225 6 Widely regarded as the most influential physicist of the twentieth century, Albert Einstein developed the special and general theories of relativity. His work won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for its explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein also made important contributions to statistical —mechanics and...
Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. — 835 р. — ISBN 978-1-4422-3154-2 Conquering the Electron offers readers a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad. This book shows the interconnection of each advance to the next on the long journey to our...
MIT Press, 2024. — 280 p. The riveting story of a modern age scientific feud between two Nobel Prize-winning scientists over the nature of cosmic rays and the universe. Set in a revolutionary era of physics and science when a series of rapid-fire discoveries was upending our understanding of the universe, Splinters of Infinity by Mark Wolverton tells a little-known story: the...
Springer Cham, 2024. — 195 p. — (History of Physics). — eBook ISBN 978-3-031-51855-3. This book provides a solution to the problem with the energy concept. This problem manifests itself in the fact that physicists clearly diverge regarding the question of what energy is. Some define it but others state that we do not know what it is. Although this is a problem for physicists...
Unzicker Alexander, 2022. — 270 S. Hundert Jahre nach Vollendung der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie ist eine entscheidende Überlegung Albert Einsteins völlig in Vergessenheit geraten. Schon 1911 hielt er den Schlüssel zu einer noch größeren Entdeckung in Händen: eine variable Lichtgeschwindigkeit, die zusätzlich den Ursprung der Gravitation mit der Massenverteilung im...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. — 336 p. The astonishing story of twentieth-century physics, told through the twelve experiments that changed our world. How did a piece of gold foil completely change our understanding of atoms? What part did a hot air balloon play in the discovery of cosmic rays? How did the experiments in the run-up to the Large Hadron Collider lead to the...
Springer, 2022. — 228 p. — ISBN 978-3-031-12322-1. The intention of this book is to shine a bright light on the intellectual context of Euler’s contributions to physics and mathematical astronomy. Leonhard Euler is one of the most important figures in the history of science, a blind genius who introduced mathematical concepts and many analytical tools to help us understand and...
Springer International, 2021 — 572 p. — (History of Mechanism and Machine Science 39) — ISBN 9783030528515,9783030528522 This book documents the process of transformation from natural philosophy, which was considered the most important of the sciences until the early modern era, into modern disciplines such as mathematics, physics, natural history, chemistry, medicine and...
Icon Books Ltd, 2021. — 152 p. — ISBN-13 9781785785702. The breakthroughs that have had the most transformative practical impacts, from thermodynamics to the Internet. Physics informs our understanding of how the world works – but more than that, key breakthroughs in physics have transformed everyday life. We journey back to ten separate days in history to understand how...
Independently publ, 2021. — 178 p. — ISBN N/A; ASIN B09NS4W1W4. The book highlights the origin and discoveries of atoms and matter. It has given a broader definition of matter and its relationship with atoms. The book has explained matter with regard; in comparison with mass Based on atoms Based on neutrons, protons, and electrons Based on quarks and leptons Based on...
Algonquin Young Readers, 2016. — 240 p. — ISBN-13 9781616205553. Радиоактивно!: Как Ирен Кюри и Лиза Мейтнер произвели революцию в науке и изменили мир The fascinating, little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists’ groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb. In 1934, Irène Curie, working with her husband and fellow scientist, Frederic Joliot,...
М.: Детская литература, 2020. — 32 с. — (Книга за книгой AR). — ISBN 978-5-08-006413-5. В 2020 году атомной промышленности России исполнилось 75 лет. Энергия атома удивительна и универсальна — это основная и неисчерпаемая энергия Вселенной. Она применяется во многих сферах жизни, самое главное — использовать ее мирно и разумно, ведь, как говорил основатель атомной...
Pegasus Books, 2021. — 336 p. A prismatic look at the meeting of Marie Curie and Albert Einstein and the impact these two pillars of science had on the world of physics, which was in turmoil. In 1911, some of the greatest minds in science convened at the First Solvay Conference in Physics, a meeting like no other. Almost half of the attendees had won or would go on to win the...
Princeton University Press, 2020. — 264 p. An authoritative interdisciplinary account of the historic discovery of gravitational waves. In 1915, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves—ripples in the fabric of spacetime caused by the movement of large masses—as part of the theory of general relativity. A century later, researchers with the Laser...
Springer, 2020. — 402 p. — ISBN 978-3-319-30809-8. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the historical development of color science, told through the stories of more than 90 of the most prominent figures in the field and their contributions. The text comprises an extensive set of biographical essays about pioneering scientists in the field of color science, describing...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 370 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–106373–2. How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and its concern with humankind's place in the universe to modern...
Doubleday, 2021. — 240 p. — ISBN 978-0385542746. Michio Kaku, renowned theoretical physicist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Future of the Mind and The Future of Humanity, tells the story of the greatest quest in all of science. When Newton discovered the law of gravity, he unified the rules governing the heavens and the Earth. Since then, physicists have been...
Harvard University Press, 2014. -— 308 p.— ISBN 0-674-72501-8, 978-0-674-72501-0. Almost weightless and able to pass through the densest materials with ease, neutrinos seem to defy the laws of nature. But these mysterious particles may hold the key to our deepest questions about the universe, says physicist Heinrich Päs. In The Perfect Wave, Päs serves as our fluent, deeply...
Springer, 2020. — 277 p. — (Einstein Studies 15). — ISBN 978-3-030-47781-3, 978-3-030-47782-0. This volume offers an integrated understanding of how the theory of general relativity gained momentum after Einstein had formulated it in 1915. Chapters focus on the early reception of the theory in physics and philosophy and on the systematic questions that emerged shortly after...
HarperCollins, 2016. — 288 p. A history of science distilled into 100 notable experiments – epic moments that have fuelled our understanding of Earth and the Universe beyond. The history of science is a fascinating and long one, covering thousands of years of history. The development of scientific experiments involves some of the most enlightened cultures in history, as well as...
Pegasus Books, 2018. — 424 pp. The latest investigation from acclaimed nuclear engineer and author James Mahaffey unearths forgotten nuclear endeavors throughout history that were sometimes hair-brained, often risky, and always fascinating. Whether you are a scientist or a poet, pro-nuclear energy or staunch opponent, conspiracy theorist or pragmatist, James Mahaffey's books...
Basic Books, 2020. — 304 pp. From Aristotle’s Physics to quantum teleportation, learn about the scientific pursuit of instantaneous connections in this insightful examination of our world. For millennia, scientists have puzzled over a simple question: Does the universe have a speed limit? If not, some effects could happen at the same instant as the actions that caused them —...
Scribner, 2014. — 448 p. A riveting narrative of the Atomic Age—from x-rays and Marie Curie to the Nevada Test Site and the 2011 meltdown in Japan—written by the prizewinning and bestselling author of Rocket Men . When Marie Curie, Enrico Fermi, and Edward Teller forged the science of radioactivity, they created a revolution that arced from the end of the nineteenth century,...
Simon & Schuster, 2016. — 528 p. The epic story of how science went “big” and the forgotten genius who started it all—“entertaining, thoroughly researched…partly a biography, partly an account of the influence of Ernest Lawrence’s great idea, partly a short history of nuclear physics and the Bomb” ( The Wall Street Journal ). Since the 1930s, the scale of scientific endeavor...
Free Press, 2016. — 272 pp. In 1900 many eminent scientists did not believe atoms existed, yet within just a few years the atomic century launched into history with an astonishing string of breakthroughs in physics that began with Albert Einstein and continues to this day. Before this explosive growth into the modern age took place, an all-but-forgotten genius strove for forty...
New York: Basic Books, 1993. 288 p. For more than a century, physicists have hoped that they were closing in on the Holy Grail of modern science - a unifying theory that would make sense of the entire physical world, from the subnuclear realm of quarks and gluons, to the very moment of the creation of the universe. This book is a history of the attempts to find a "theory of...
2nd Edition. — Dover Publications, 1987. — 384 p. — ISBN13: 978-0486253466. From Galileo's famous experiments in accelerated motion to Einstein's revolutionary theory of relativity, the experiments recorded here trace the evolution of modern physics from its beginnings to the mid-twentieth century. Brought together for the first time in one volume are important source readings...
Simon & Schuster, 2019. — 400 p. — ISBN: 978-1476729923 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1476729947 (ebook). "One of the most fascinating and surprising scientific detective stories of the last fifty years, an exciting quest for a new form of matter, told firsthand. The Second Kind of Impossible reads like James Gleick's Chaos combined with an Indiana Jones adventure. When leading...
Penguin Random House, 2019. — 400 p. How an unknown German and an Englishman on opposite sides of WWI created a scientific revolution. In 1916, Arthur Eddington, a war-weary British astronomer, opened a letter written by an obscure German professor named Einstein. The neatly printed equations on the scrap of paper outlined his world-changing theory of general relativity, the first...
The University of Chicago, 2014. — 272 p. — ISBN: 978-0-226-13539-7. Modern theory needs a history lesson. Neither Marx nor Nietzsche first gave us theory-Hegel did. To support this contention, Andrew Cole's The Birth of Theory presents a refreshingly clear and lively account of the origins and legacy of Hegel's dialectic as theory. Cole explains how Hegel boldly broke from...
Public Affairs, 2019. — 368 p. — ISBN: 978-1541762251, 1541762258. A thrilling adventure story chronicling the perilous journey of the scientists who set out to prove the theory of relativity–the results of which catapulted Albert Einstein to fame and forever changed our understanding of the universe. In 1911, a relatively unknown physicist named Albert Einstein published his...
Icon Books Ltd., 2015. — 240 p. — ISBN: 978-184831-852-6. In 1915, Albert Einstein presented his masterwork to the Prussian Academy of Sciences—a theory of gravity, matter, space and time: the General Theory of Relativity. Einstein himself said it was “the most valuable theory of my life,” and “of incomparable beauty.” It describes the evolution of the universe, black holes,...
2nd Ed. — Translated by Simon Pare. — Haus Publishing, 2015. — 230 p. — ISBN: 978-1-908323-86-6. In the spring of 1945 the Allies arrested the physicists they believed had worked on the German nuclear programme. Interned in an English country house owned by MI6, their conversations were secretly recorded. Operation Epsilon sought to determine how close Nazi Germany had come to...
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 416 p. On their 100th anniversary, the story of the extraordinary scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativity. In 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein’s revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became the century’s most celebrated scientific experiment....
Penguin Books, 2007. — 310 p. — ISBN: 978-1-1012-0238-8. A physicist himself, Gino Segrè writes about what scientists do and why they do it. with intimacy, clarity, and passion. In Faust in Copenhagen, he evokes the fleeting, magical moment when physics and the world was about to lose its innocence forever. Known by physicists as the miracle year, 1932 saw the discovery of the...
Prometheus Books, 2013. — 500 p. — ISBN 9781616147457, 1616147458. Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg has written that "all that has happened since 1687 is a gloss on the Principia." Now you too can appreciate the significance of this stellar work, regarded by many as the greatest scientific contribution of all time. Despite its dazzling reputation, Isaac Newton's Philosophiae...
Pan Stanford Publishing, 2019. — 370 p. — ISBN: 978-1-351-20723-2. At the close of the nineteenth century, we stood on the threshold of one of the greatest periods of science, in which the entire world and understanding of science would be shaken to the core and greatly modified. This explosion of knowledge led ultimately to that same information revolution that we live in...
Sterling, 2011. — 528 р. — (Sterling Milestones). — ISBN 978-1402778612, 1402778619. Following the hugely successful The Science Book and The Math Book comes a richly illustrated chronology of physics, containing 250 short, entertaining, and thought-provoking entries. In addition to exploring such engaging topics as dark energy, parallel universes, the Doppler effect, the God...
New York, USA: Dover Publ., Inc., 2002 (first publication 2002). — 96 p. — ISBN: 0486425630. A distinguished physicist and teacher, George Gamow also possessed a special gift for making the intricacies of science accessible to a wide audience. In Gravity, he takes an enlightening look at three of the towering figures of science who unlocked many of the mysteries behind the laws...
Научно-популярное издание. — СПб.: Питер, 2013. — 448 с. — ISBN: 978-5-496-00395-7. Что происходит, когда объект падает в черную дыру? Исчезает ли он бесследно? Около тридцати лет назад один из ведущих исследователей феномена черных дыр, ныне знаменитый британский физик Стивен Хокинг заявил, что именно так и происходит. Но оказывается, такой ответ ставит под угрозу все, что мы...
Oxford University Press, UK, 2018. — 126 p. — ISBN: 019968412X. How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalized enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and its concern with humankind's place in the universe to modern...
Octopus Publishing Group Ltd., London, GB, 2016. — 386 p. — ISBN: 9781844038363. Discover the 50 equations that have led to incredible discoveries, ground-breaking technology and have shaped our understanding of the world. From much heralded classics, like Zeno's Dichotomy and Pythagoras's Theorem, to The Schredinger Wave Equation and Google PageRank, each equation is broken...
Basic Books, 2018. — 384 pp. The untold story of the heretical thinkers who dared to question the nature of our quantum universe. Every physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity's finest scientific achievements. But ask what it means, and the result will be a brawl. For a century, most physicists have followed Niels Bohr's Copenhagen interpretation and dismissed...
Basic Books, 2017. — 336 p. The story of the unlikely friendship between the two physicists who fundamentally recast the notion of time and history. In 1939, Richard Feynman, a brilliant graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his teaching assistant. A lifelong friendship and enormously productive collaboration was born, despite sharp...
3rd Edition. — Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. — 288 p. — ISBN: 0486271196. Although the concept of space is of fundamental importance in both physics and philosophy, until the publication of this book, the idea of space had never been treated in terms of its historical development. It remained for Dr. Jammer, noted scholar and historian of science, to trace the...
New York: Walker & Company, 2005. — 154 p. — ISBN: 0802714633. В 1905 году, выведя свое знаменитое уравнение E=mc2, Альберт Эйштейн подарил миру мощный источник энергии и открыл новые пути к познанию Вселенной. И теперь, более ста лет спустя, блестящий популяризатор науки Дэвид Боданис увлекательно и просто рассказывает об этом открытии. Герои его захватывающей, как детектив,...
Oxford, England: Oneworld Publications, 2008. — 135 p. — ISBN: 1851683690. The year 2005 is the ‘World Year of Physics’. It marks the centenary of the publication of three papers by Albert Einstein during a few months in 1905. The most famous of these is probably the third, which set out the theory of relativity, while the second paper provided definitive evidence for the (then...
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2004. — 903 p. — ISBN: 1588341607. Readers will travel back in time to ancient Babylonia, Egypt, and Greece. They will meet the world's first astronomers, mathematicians, and physicists and explore the lives and ideas of such famous people as Pythagoras, Archimedes, Brahmagupta, al-Khwarizmi, Fibonacci, Ptolemy, St. Augustine, and St. Thomas...
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2005. — 1308 p. — ISBN: 1588341615. In volume two, students will watch as Copernicus's systematic observations place the sun at the center of our universe—to the dismay of establishment thinkers. After students follow the achievements and frustrations of Galileo, Kepler, and Descartes, they will appreciate the amazing Isaac Newton, whose...
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2007. — 1570 p. — ISBN: 1588341623. In volume three, students will look over Albert Einstein's shoulder as he and his colleagues develop a new kind of physics. It leads in two directions: to knowledge of the vast universe and its future (insights build on Einstein's theories of relativity), and to an understanding of the astonishingly small...
Viking Penguin Group Inc, USA, 2009. — 258 p. — ISBN: 0670020648, 014311672X. Захватывающая история самого сильного источника энергии. The fascinating story of the most powerful source of energy the earth can yield. Uranium is a common element in the earth's crust and the only naturally occurring mineral with the power to end all life on the planet. After World War II, it...
New York; London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2010. — 217 p. — ISBN: 0393337936, 039306204X Philosopher and science historian Robert P. Crease tells the stories behind ten of the greatest equations in human history. Was Nobel laureate Richard Feynman really joking when he called Maxwell's electromagnetic equations the most significant event of the nineteenth century? How did...
Bloomsbury, USA: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016. — 304 p. — ISBN: 1620405598. Light begins at Stonehenge, where crowds cheer a solstice sunrise. After sampling myths explaining First Light, the story moves on to early philosophers' queries, then through the centuries, from Buddhist temples to Biblical scripture, when light was the soul of the divine. Battling darkness and...
Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2014. — 251 p. — ISBN: 3642451276. During its forty year lifespan, string theory has always had the power to divide, being called both a 'theory of everything' and a 'theory of nothing'. Critics have even questioned whether it qualifies as a scientific theory at all. This book adopts an objective stance, standing back from the question of the truth...
М.; Берлин: Директ-Медиа, 2014. — 210 с.: 16 ил. — ISBN: 978-5-4475-3077-8. Описанная автором в предыдущих публикациях методологическая модель смены теорий применяется к максвелловской научной революции. Показано, что генезис максвелловской электродинамики может рассматриваться как закономерный результат согласования «старых» исследовательских программ, относившихся к...
М.: Янус-К, 2005. — 204 с. — ISBN: 5-8037-0309-5. Настоящая книга написана известным российским физиком, автором многих научных монографий и статей Юрием Львовичем Климонтовичем, которого еще при его жизни многие друзья и коллеги в шутку, но с немалой долей истины, называли в своем кругу «Больцманом 20-го века». В первой части книги представлены любопытные наблюдения и...
М.: Наука, 1965. — 327 с. Предисловие. Прежде чем вы начинаете чтение, вы вправе ожидать ответа на некоторые простые вопросы. С какой целью написана эта книга? Кто тот воображаемый читатель, для которого она предназначается? Трудно начать с ясного и последовательного ответа на эти вопросы. Гораздо легче ответить на них в конце книги, хотя это было бы совершенно лишним. Мы находим,...
Здравствуйте! Как модераторы раздела смотрят на идею создать тут подраздел "Первоисточники по физике", чтобы собрать в нём оригинальные труды учёных, которые сейчас представляют преимущественно историческую ценность? Такие книги разбросаны сейчас довольно широко: что-то в истории физики (хотя по-хорошему в истории физики должны быть только материалы, исследующие историческое развитие науки), что-то в тематических разделах физики (тут им тоже не место, потому что для использования в качестве учебных пособий они устарели), а что-то вообще отправлено в жизнь выдающихся людей (хотя это не биографии).Если администрация не против, я подготовлю соответствующее предложение с перечнем файлов.
А где граница между "первоисточником" и любым вообще теоретическим трудом, созданным NN лет назад? Только в "классичности"? Но каким аршином её измерять, если фамилия автора не первой величины?В давно существующем разделе Первоисточники по социологии эта проблема очень ярко выражена.
С социологией сложнее - у них там много разных школ, где каждый мнит себя классиком. В физике с этим проще - можно легко очертить круг выдающихся учёных прошлого, условно от Галилея до Эйнштейна.
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Сами же материалы оставить по тематикам.
Только в "классичности"? Но каким аршином её измерять, если фамилия автора не первой величины?В давно существующем разделе Первоисточники по социологии эта проблема очень ярко выражена.