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Inward bound : of matter and forces in the physical world / Abraham Pais.

By:

Pais, Abraham, , 1918-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press , 1986.Description: xiv, 666 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

0198519974

Subject(s):

Physics -- --History -- 20th century

DDC classification:

530 PAS

LOC classification:

QC7 .P27 1986

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	530 PAS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		000285

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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.

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