Product Description

Frontiers provides a deft survey of the main strands of twentieth century physics, telling the story of the major discoveries and the people who made them, largely through the work of the Nobel Prize Winners in Physics.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1513159 in Books
• Published on: 1999-11-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 528 pages

From the Back Cover
< The revolution in twentieth-century physics has changed the way we think about space, time and matter and our own place in the universe. It has raised and offered answers to many of the big questions of existence, such as the ultimate nature of things and how the universe came into being. It has undermined our belief in a Newtonian mechanistic universe and a deterministic future, posing questions about parallel universes, time-travel and the origin of everything. At the same time, we have witnessed amazing attempts at unification so that physicists seek a single 'theory of everything' from which we could derive the masses and types of all particles and their interactions. This book tells the story of these discoveries and the people who made them, largely through the work of Nobel prize-winning physicists.

Frontiers provides a deft survey of the main strands of twentieth-century physics and will interest the advanced high-school student and undergraduates and their teachers. It will also appea

About the Author
Steve Adams is Head of Physics at the Westminster School, London. His first book was Relativity: An Introduction to Space-time Physics, published by Taylor & Francis in 1997.

Adams; S. Westminster School, UK,