John Heilbron’s lightning tour of the big questions in physics
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2015 · Education
Author John Heilbron explores the questions that have concerned Physicists since the origin of the study in Ancient Greece. From ‘how many principles are there?’ to ‘can there be such thing as a vacuum?’, Heilbron traces the changing place and purpose of physics by those that have nurtured it over the centuries. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/9780198746850 John Heilbron was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, in physics and history. He returned to Berkeley in 1967, where he rose to become professor of history and vice chancellor. In recent years he has taught at Caltech and Yale, and he is currently Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, and the Oxford Museum for History of Science. His many books include the biography Galileo, and Love, literature, and the quantum atom. © Oxford University Press
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