Inward bound : of matter and forces in the physical world
Pais, Abraham , 1918-
Inward bound : of matter and forces in the physical world / Abraham Pais. - Oxford New York : Clarendon Press ; : Oxford University Press , 1986. - xiv, 666 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Pais undertakes a history of the physics of matter and of physical forces since the discovery of x-rays. The book attempts to relate not only what has happened over the last hundred years but why it happened the way it did, what it was like for those scientists involved, and how what at the time may have seemed a series of bizarre or unrelated events, now with hindsight emerges as a logical sequence of events. Pais, a noted physicist, was personally involved in many of the developments he describes, and thus Inward Bound , like his earlier book, is filled with unique insights into the world of big and small physics.
0198519974
85021587
Physics----History -- 20th century
QC7 / .P27 1986
530 PAS
Inward bound : of matter and forces in the physical world / Abraham Pais. - Oxford New York : Clarendon Press ; : Oxford University Press , 1986. - xiv, 666 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Pais undertakes a history of the physics of matter and of physical forces since the discovery of x-rays. The book attempts to relate not only what has happened over the last hundred years but why it happened the way it did, what it was like for those scientists involved, and how what at the time may have seemed a series of bizarre or unrelated events, now with hindsight emerges as a logical sequence of events. Pais, a noted physicist, was personally involved in many of the developments he describes, and thus Inward Bound , like his earlier book, is filled with unique insights into the world of big and small physics.
0198519974
85021587
Physics----History -- 20th century
QC7 / .P27 1986
530 PAS
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