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La 4e de couverture indique : "George Gamow était de ces hommes de science dont la soif de connaissance extraordinaire ignore les frontières entre les disciplines. Ce Russe naturalisé américain s'aventura aussi bien dans le monde de l'infinitésimal que dans l'infini de l'Univers. De l'étude du noyau atomique à l'élucidation des mystères du code génétique, en passant par l'explication des mécanismes de génération d'énergie dans les étoiles et leur évolution, ses contributions scientifiques en physique, en astrophysique et en génétique ont été aussi importantes qu'éclectiques. Il fut l'un des premiers à défendre la validité du modèle du Big Bang pour expliquer l'origine de l'Univers, hypothèse que de nombreuses preuves ont depuis permis de corroborer."

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Six livres en un seul volume : par l'effet de quelque intrication, le tout serait-il davantage que la somme de ses parties ? Lorsque je les feuillette, je vois bien avec le recul qu'ils égrènent les notes symboliques d'une mélodie intime, celle de deux de mes passions les plus tenaces. La première est le problème du temps. Il m'a sauté à la figure à l'âge de trente-trois ans et ne m'a lâché qu'il y a peu. Ma seconde passion, irréductiblement liée à l'autre, me porte vers certains personnages fascinants de l'histoire de la physique du XXe siècle, des êtres que je n'hésite pas à qualifier de "génies" Redécouvrant la tonalité de ces ouvrages successifs, je me rends compte que j'aime traverser les frontières, établir des connexions entre ce qu'elles séparent le plus souvent de façon abusive : la physique et la philosophie, la vie et l'oeuvre, les équations et le langage ordinaire, les idées et le tempérament, l'intelligence et les émotions.

Time --- Physics --- Temps (philosophie) --- Philosophie et physique --- Physique --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie --- Majorana, Ettore. --- Einstein, Albert, --- Gamow, George, --- Pauli, Wolfgang, --- Dirac, P. A. M. --- Ehrenfest, Paul, --- Schrödinger, Erwin, --- Majorana, Ettore --- Einstein, Albert --- Gamow, George --- Dirac, Paul A. M. --- Pauli, Wolfgang --- Ehrenfest, Paul --- Schrödinger, Erwin --- Schrödinger, Erwin

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At the end of the nineteenth century, some physicists believed that the basic principles underlying their subject were already known, and that physics in the future would only consist of filling in the details. They could hardly have been more wrong. The past century has seen the rise of quantum mechanics, relativity, cosmology, particle physics, and solid-state physics, among other fields. These subjects have fundamentally changed our understanding of space, time, and matter. They have also transformed daily life, inspiring a technological revolution that has included the development of radio, television, lasers, nuclear power, and computers. In Quantum Generations, Helge Kragh, one of the world's leading historians of physics, presents a sweeping account of these extraordinary achievements of the past one hundred years. The first comprehensive one-volume history of twentieth-century physics, the book takes us from the discovery of X rays in the mid-1890s to superstring theory in the 1990s. Unlike most previous histories of physics, written either from a scientific perspective or from a social and institutional perspective, Quantum Generations combines both approaches. Kragh writes about pure science with the expertise of a trained physicist, while keeping the content accessible to nonspecialists and paying careful attention to practical uses of science, ranging from compact disks to bombs. As a historian, Kragh skillfully outlines the social and economic contexts that have shaped the field in the twentieth century. He writes, for example, about the impact of the two world wars, the fate of physics under Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin, the role of military research, the emerging leadership of the United States, and the backlash against science that began in the 1960s. He also shows how the revolutionary discoveries of scientists ranging from Einstein, Planck, and Bohr to Stephen Hawking have been built on the great traditions of earlier centuries. Combining a mastery of detail with a sure sense of the broad contours of historical change, Kragh has written a fitting tribute to the scientists who have played such a decisive role in the making of the modern world.

Physics --- History --- Abraham, Max. --- American Physical Society. --- Annalen der Physik. --- Bell Laboratories. --- Bethe, Hans. --- Born, Max. --- CERN. --- Debye, Peter. --- Dirac equation. --- Einstein, Albert. --- Fermi, Enrico. --- Franck, James. --- Gamow, George. --- General Electric. --- Heisenberg, Werner. --- Klein, Oskar. --- Marxism, and physics. --- Nobel prizes. --- Physical Review. --- big science. --- chemistry. --- complementarity principle. --- cosmology. --- electroweak theory. --- element formation. --- gravitation, theories of. --- high energy physics. --- journals of physics. --- leptons. --- transuranic elements.