by George Gamow · Salvat Editores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788434583801
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«Biografía de la física» is George Gamow's popular science essay, published by Salvat Editores in paperback (252 pages, in Spanish).
A historical journey through physics via its great figures, from Galileo to Einstein, in which Gamow explains simply and engagingly the main theories and laws that explain the universe. Anecdotes and quotes from the scientists themselves bring the reader closer to the origin of ideas and make their genesis understandable.
Spanish edition of 1986 from the Biblioteca Científica Salvat collection; original in English from 1959, «The Great Physicists from Galileo to Einstein»; includes 128 figures and 8 plates.
For non-specialist readers interested in the history of science and the origin of the great theories of physics.
George Gamow was a Soviet and American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Georges Lemaître's Big Bang theory. Gamow discovered a theoretical explanation of alpha decay by quantum tunneling, invented the liquid drop model, worked on radioactive decay, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis, Big Bang nucleosynthesis, and predicted the existence of the cosmic microwave background radiation and molecular genetics.
