1st Edition
Breakthroughs Outstanding Physicists, Their Lives and Accomplishments
1. Ulugh Bek: The Sage of Samarkand
2. Ole Roemer: Speed of Light, by Jove!
3. Henry Cavendish: Weighing the Earth
4. Carl Friedrich Gauss: Prodigious Prodigy
5. Michael Faraday. Mathless Polymath
6. Albert A. Michelson: The Master of Light
7. Hertha Ayrton: Beating the Odds
8. Max Planck: The Upside of Catastrophe
9. Annie Jump Cannon: Oh be a fine girl/guy kiss me
10. Henrietta Leavitt: Pulsating Stars Star
11. Alfred Wegener
12. Inge Lehmann: Solid to the core
13. Irene Joliot-Curie: The Alchemist’s Dream
14. Hans Bethe: α Bethe γ
15. Raymond Davis: Cleaning Fluid Physics
16. Katherine Johnson: It is Rocket Science
17. Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson: It Wasn’t Pigeons
18. Steven Weinberg: Bronx Boy Sets the Standard
19. Helen Quinn: Guts
20. Jocelyn Bell Burnell: A Bit of Scruff
21. Alain Aspect: You can’t be two places at once, can you?
22. Anne L’Huillier: The Tiniest Timepiece
23. Claudia Alexander: Gone Too Soon
24. Donna Strickland: Chirping
25. Lene Hau: Braking light
26. Andrea Ghez: Galaxy Gobblers
27. Ellen Jean Gundermann Hardebeck: Scintillating Studies
Biography
Jeffry V. Mallow is Emeritus Professor of Physics, Loyola University Chicago. He discovered and named the phenomenon of science anxiety, and co-founded, with Loyola psychologists, the first clinic to help students overcome it. He has published widely in this field, as well as in theoretical physics and science education.
Helge Kastrup is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Copenhagen University College. He is currently a lecturer in science and mathematics at the University of Copenhagen. Professor Kastrup is a contributor to several textbooks in the natural sciences. He has translated physics and astronomy books from English into Danish.
Professors Mallow and Kastrup have co-authored numerous publications. This is their fourth book.
