General Physics

Eric Rogers was an excellent physics teacher, with a worldwide reputation for the passion, profundity, and quirkiness of his thinking. Written by a distinguished international group of contributors, Wonder and Delight honors his memory by collecting together writings about science education that hav..

This easy-to-read biography analyzes Yoshio Nishina's position in and his contributions to the Japanese physics community. It first examines Nishina's family and early studies, and then focuses on his work in quantum mechanics, particularly the Klein-Nishina formula for Compton scattering. The book ..

This multi-author volume presents remininiscences about Academician Ya.B. Zeldovich who was undoubtedly one of the greatest physicists and cosmologists of the twentieth century...