by George Gamow · Courier Corporation · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780486257679
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This book, written by George Gamow, explains how the central laws of physical science evolved, from Pythagoras' discovery of frequency ratios to today's research on elementary particles. It includes biographical data about figures such as Galileo, Newton, Huygens, and Einstein. The author aims to give the reader a feeling of what physics is and what kind of people physicists are, combining an informal approach with clear and easy-to-follow explanations.
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.
