Mechanics. Historical synopsis. How the heavens go / Galileo Galilei
A man obsessed / Isaac Newton. Thermodynamics. Historical synopsis. A tale of two revolutions / Sadi Carnot
On the dark side / Robert Mayer
A holy undertaking / James Joule
Unities and a unifier / Hermann Helmholtz
The scientist as virtuoso / William Thomson
The road to entropy / Rudolf Clausius
The greatest simplicity / Willard Gibbs
The last law / Walther Nernst. Electromagnetism. Historical synopsis. A force of nature / Michael Faraday
The scientist as magician / James Clerk Maxwell. Statistical mechanics. Historical synopsis. Molecules and entropy / Ludwig Boltzmann. Relativity. Historical synopsis. Adventure in thought / Albert Einstein. Quantum mechanics. Historical synopsis. Reluctant revolutionary / Max Planck
Science by conversation / Niels Bohr
The scientist as critic / Wolfgang Pauli
Matrix mechanics / Werner Heisenberg
Wave mechanics / Erwin Schrödinger and Louis de Broglie. Nuclear physics. Historical synopsis. Opening doors / Marie Curie
On the crest of a wave / Ernest Rutherford
Physics and friendships / Lise Meitner
Complete physicist / Enrico Fermi. Particle physics. Historical synopsis. i · [delta] [psi] = m [psi] / Paul Dirac
What do you care? / Richard Feynman
Telling the tale of the quarks / Murray Gell-Mann. Astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology. Historical synopsis. Beyond the galaxy / Edwin Hubble
Ideal scholar / Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Affliction, fame, and fortune / Stephen Hawking.
