Inward bound
by Abraham Pais · first published 1986
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Abraham Pais' <i>'Subtle is the Lord...'</i> -- the award-winning biography of Albert Einstein -- received high acclaim from <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> which hailed it as "a monument to sound scholarship and graceful style," and from <i>The Christian Science Monitor</i> which called it "an extraordinary biography of an extraordinary man." In his groundbreaking new book, Pais chronicles the history of the physics of matter and physical forces since the discovery of x-rays. He relates not only what has happened over the last one-hundred years, but also why it happened the way it di
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…Radio Waves [1] - From X-rays to Quarks [2] Then, you have Abraham Pais, all his books are highly recommended, I will include 2 here [3] Subtle is the lord (Best Einstein Scientific Biography) [4] Inward Bound (Superb Scientific history of XX century physics) Jagdish Mehra wrote a gargantuan history of Quantum Mechanics in six volumes. He studied and /or interviewed most of the big hitters who developed the…
on “Who Did the Math for General Relativity First, Einstein or Hilbert?” ↗The definitive history is Abraham Pais' treatise _Inward Bound_. He was a particle physicist who turned to writing history. Had the advantage not having been there and known the players.
on “The Golden Age of Quantum Physics” ↗