Great physicists
Subtitle: The life and times of leading physicists from Galileo to Hawking
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: November 15, 2001
Place of publication: USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9780195137484
First sentence: Legend has it that a young, ambitious, and at that moment frustrated mathematics professor climbed to the top of the bell tower in Pisa one day, perhaps in 1591, with a bag of ebony and lead balls.
Description: Presents profiles of thirty scientists, including Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Richard Feynman, and Edwin Hubble.