In this richly-illustrated book the author combines history with real science. Using an original approach he presents the major achievements of twentieth-centur... » 

In this richly-illustrated book the author combines history with real science. Using an original approach he presents the major achievements of twentieth-century physics. Here, in the form of a year-by-year chronicle, biographies and revealing personal anecdotes help bring to life the main events of the past hundred years. The work of famous physicists of the twentieth century, like the Curies, Bohr, Heisenberg, Einstein, Fermi, Feynman, Gell-Mann, Rutherford, and Schrödinger is presented, often in the words and imagery of the prize-winners themselves. «