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Mr. Tompkins Gets Serious: The Essential George Gamow, The Masterpiece Science Edition

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From what happens inside the atom to how things work on larger scales in the universe, readers can rely on George Gamow's authority and be delighted by his sheer joy of physics. Gamow's breadth of knowledge was astounding, he made major contributions to advances in both cosmology and molecular biology. His elucidation of radioactivity, the Big Bang theory, and even how the genetic code might be transcribed years before DNA was discovered makes him one of the 20th century's greatest scientists. Gamow, the creator of the famous MR. TOMPKINS series, offers here his thoughts on how the atom works, the basic laws of chemistry, radioactivity, electromagnetism, the nature of light, and how scientists understand space, time, and motion. These writings were collected from his exhaustive 1958 volume on the physical sciences "Matter, Earth and Sky, " now out of print and not available in any other collection. Lovers of the "Feynman Lectures" will recognize a similar kind of scientific brilliance made accessible in a way that only those with the highest understanding can provide.

Table of Contents:
Foreword by R. Igor Gamow. Editor's Note. Introduction. I. THE ATOM. 1. The Atom in Philosophy and Chemistry. 2. The Electric Nature of Matter. 3. The Quantum of Radiant Energy. 4. The Bohr Atom. 5. Wave Nature of Particles. 6. Natural Radioactivity. 7. Artificial Nuclear Transformations. 8. The Structure of the Atomic Nucleus. 9. Large-Scale Nuclear Reactions. 10. Mystery Particles. II. MATTER AND ENERGY. 11. Bodies in Motion. 12. Vibrations and Waves. 13. Heat and Temperature. 14. Electromagnetism. 15. Light, Visible and Invisible. 16. Modern Views on Space, Time, and Motion. Appendix: Advances in Particle Physics. Notes. Index.

About the Author :
George Gamow was born in Ukraine in 1904 and defected to the United States from the former Soviet Union in the 1930s. He was a professor of physics at George Washington University and the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a leading researcher in nuclear physics, astrophysics, and cosmology. The global impact of his popular scientific writings, books such as the "Mr. Tompkins" series and One, Two, Three Infinity, was recognized by the United Nations in 1956 when he was awarded the Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science. He died in 1968.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780131872912
  • Publisher: Pi Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Pi Press
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 32 mm
  • Weight: 526 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0131872915
  • Publisher Date: 15 Dec 2005
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 416
  • Sub Title: The Essential George Gamow, The Masterpiece Science Edition
  • Width: 216 mm


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