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This superb collection by the eminent physicist and critic John Ziman, opens with an album of portraits of scientists--Albert Einstein, Freeman Dyson, Lev Landau, Mark Azbel, Andrei Sakharov. Ziman takes readers into the world of the contemporary scientist, showing how discoveries are made and how claims are tested. He then travels into the minds of scientists as they are drawn into competing directions. Here Ziman exposes the path of discovery, which is strewn with complex human needs, governmental restrictions, the desire for profits, and the exercise of technical virtuosity.

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• Full title: Masters of Modern Physics
• Subtitle: The Collectivization of Science
• Author: John Ziman
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 407
• EAN: 9781563960659
• ISBN: 1563960656
• ID: 03615921
• Publisher: American Institute of Physics
• Weight: 810 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. May 1997

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