Great Physics. From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection. 250 Milestones in the History of Physics

Clifford Pickover (b. 1957) — a renowned scientist and one of the world's best science popularizers. His «Great Physics» is a collection of brilliant essays about great discoveries made by outstanding scientists, starting with thinkers from the past, such as... Pythagoras and Maxwell, and ending with our contemporaries — Einstein, Hawking, and many others. This beautifully illustrated book is a wonderful gift for anyone interested in the most important questions that have occupied the best minds of humanity for centuries: how the world is structured, what its past and future are, and what place we, humans, occupy in it. For all those interested in physics.