Overview
This book offers a unique view of the development of modern physics and of the personalities who contributed to it.
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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About this book
Every reader interested in understanding the important problems in physics and astrophysics and their historic development over the past 60 years will enjoy this book immensely. The philosophy, history and the individual views of famous scientists of the 20th century known personally to the author, make this book fascinating for non-physicists, too. The book consists of three parts on (I) major problems of physics and astrophysics, (II) the philosophy and history of science and (III) memorial essays on famous physicists. The author is an internationally renowned scientist, who summarizes here his life-long interests, experience, and insights into the work of other eminent 20th-century physicists. Professor Ginzburg’s fundamental contributions to the theory of superconductivity, encapsulated in the famous and widely-used Ginzburg-Landau equations, have been recognized with the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with A.A. Abrikosov and A.E. Leggett.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Physics of a Lifetime
Book Subtitle: Reflections on the Problems and Personalities of 20th Century Physics
Authors: Vitaly L. Ginzburg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04455-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-67534-1Published: 18 January 2001
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-08699-1Published: 15 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-04455-1Published: 09 March 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 514
Topics: Condensed Matter Physics, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Philosophy, general