Book of Donmon Teith

In this richly-illustrated 2004 book the author combines history with real science. Using an original approach he presents the major achievements of twentieth-c

Celebrating a century of revolutionary contributions to our understanding of life, the world, and the universe, this encyclopedic desk reference traces the disc

This is a major historical study of the scientific and cultural development of physics in the 20th century. Its list of contributors includes four Nobel Laureat

In 1992, many scientists gathered to honour C.N. Yang on his 70th birthday. This volume documents the scientific contributions resulting from that conference, a

Hargittai tells the story of five remarkable Hungarians: Wigner won a Nobel Prize in theoretical physics; Szilard was the first to see that a chain reaction bas