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John R. Gribbin (born 19 March 1946) [1] is a British science writer, an astrophysicist, and a visiting fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex. [2] His writings include quantum physics, human evolution, climate change, global warming, the origins of the universe, and biographies of famous scientists.
The Evolution of Physics: The Growth of Ideas from Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta is a science book for the lay reader. Written by the physicists Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld, it traces the development of ideas in physics. It was originally published in 1938 by Cambridge University Press.
The book was published in 1999. As of November 2013, Gregory Laughlin makes the following statement on his web site: [3] A large number of interesting developments have occurred in physics and astronomy since the book was written, and many of these advances have a strong impact on our understanding of how the future will unfold.
A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down [1] is a 2005 physics book by Robert B. Laughlin, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the fractional quantum Hall effect. Its title is a play on the P. W. Anderson manifesto More is Different [ citation needed ] (historically important in claiming that condensed-matter ...
Schwarzschild's work in the fields of stellar structure and stellar evolution led to improved understanding of pulsating stars, differential solar rotation, post-main sequence evolutionary tracks on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (including how stars become red giants), hydrogen shell sources, the helium flash, and the ages of star clusters.
The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely read book review publications in the industry. [2] The magazine's offices are located near Times Square in New York City.
In The New York Review of Books, Martin Gardner praised The First Three Minutes as "science writing at its best." [5] In The New Yorker, Jeremy Bernstein wrote that "Weinberg builds such a convincing case...that one comes away from his book feeling not only that the idea of an original cosmic explosion is not crazy but that any other theory is scientifically irrational."
[52] [53] It considers the five scenarios for the end of the universe (both theoretically and practically), [52] and has received positive reviews both for its science outreach accuracy and its wit. [ 54 ] [ 55 ] [ 56 ] The book [ 57 ] was also a New York Times Notable Book and featured on the best books of the year lists of The Washington Post ...