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Here are fifteen pieces on the history and personalities of physics and related fields, from the well-known physicist and essayist Jeremy Bernstein. The pieces in this collection include profiles of Niels Bohr, Marie Curie, Linus Pauling, the linguist Hans Eberstark, and Julian Schwinger; essays on thought experiments, Einstein's scientific legacy, the early debate on black holes, and the cold fusion controversy; and some humorous short fiction. Most of this work has appeared in the New Yorker, Scientific American, or The Atlantic Monthly.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Science: general issues History of science

• Full title: A Theory for Everything
• Author: Jeremy Bernstein
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780387947006
• ISBN: 0387947000
• ID: 05247985
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Weight: 660 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 19 mm
• Published: 1996

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