He also used his power to protect string theory back when it was an endangered species of physics theories. But those two facts just scratch the surface of the complex man revealed in this book. This book is a must read in the history of 20th century physics. Glashow, who wrote the introduction, shared the Nobel Prize in physics with Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam for the theory behind electroweak unification. This book is organized for the self-learner.
Chapters begin with an overview of concepts and end with a summary and self-tests.
A great little book, and if every physics textbook were like this, physics classrooms would be crowded. This wonderful book describes both the scientific and social sides of the revolution in medical imaging brought about by the age of particle physics. Like Lederman, Weinberg is a Nobel Laureate of the golden generation, with a personally engaging manner, but he's a theoretical particle physicist, so this book gives the theorist's view of the same particle physics discussed by Lederman. This is a fascinating anthropological study of high energy physics communities in the U.S. and Japan. Most books about physics sing the praises of physics, and don't objectively examine the practice itself as a human communal practice.