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530.07 PHY Physics Education | 530.071 MAZ Peer instruction : a user's manual | 530.071 VIE Teaching physics | 530.0724 SHE Matter of everything : twelve experiments that changed our world | 530.0724 SHR Structures of scientific collaboration | 530.076 BEI Schaum's outline of theory and problems of applied physics | 530.076 CAH Guide to physics problems. Part 2 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Matter of Everything, accelerator physicist Suzie Sheehy introduces us to the people who, through a combination of genius, persistence and luck, staged the ground-breaking experiments of the twentieth century that changed the course of history. From the serendipitous discovery of X-rays in a German laboratory, to the scientists trying to prove Einstein wrong (and inadvertently proving him right), to the race to split open the atom, Sheehy shows how our most brilliant, practical physicists have shaped innumerable aspects of how we live today. Radio, TV, the chips in our smartphones, MRI scanners, radar equipment and microwaves, to name a few: these were all made possible by their determination to understand, and control, the microscopic.
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