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This book tells about lives in science, specifically the lives of thirty from thepantheon of physics. Some of the names are familiar (Newton, Einstein, Curie,Heisenberg, Bohr), while others may not be (Clausius, Gibbs, Meitner, Dirac,Chandrasekhar). All were, or are, extraordinary human beings, at least as fascinatingas their subjects. The short biographies in the book tell the stories of boththe people and their physics.The chapters are varied in format and length, depending on the (sometimesskimpy) biographical material available. Some chapters are equipped with shortsections (entitled...

Science (from the Latin word scientia, meaning "knowledge")[1] is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.[2][3][4]The earliest roots of science can be traced to Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3500 to 3000 BCE.[5][6] Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes.[5][6] After the fall of the Western...