Here are fifteen pieces on the history and personalities of physics and related fields, from the well-known physicist and essayist Jeremy Bernstein. The pieces in this collection include profiles of Niels Bohr, Marie Curie, Linus Pauling, the linguist Hans Eberstark, and Julian Schwinger; essays on thought experiments, Einstein's scientific legacy, the early debate on black holes, and the cold fusion controversy; and some humorous short fiction. Most of this work has appeared in the New Yorker, Scientific American, or The Atlantic Monthly.
- ISBN13 9780387947006
- Publish Date 29 August 1996
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Imprint Copernicus Books
- Edition 1996 ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English