James I. Remarkable Physicists: From Galileo to Yukawa

Cambridge University Press, 2004. - 389 p.
The 250 years from the second half of the seventeenth century saw the birth of modern physics and its growth into one of the most successful of the sciences.The reader will find here the lives of fifty of the most remarkable physicists from that era described in brief biographies. All the characters profiled have made important contributions to physics, through their ideas, through their teaching, or in other ways. The emphasis is on their varied life-stories, not on the details of their achievements, but, when read in sequence, the biographies, which are organized chronologically, convey in human terms something of the way in which physics was created. Scientific and mathematical detail is kept to a minimum, so the reader who is interested in physics, but perhaps lacks the background to follow technical accounts, will find this collection an inviting and easy path through the subject’s modern development.Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
Johannes Kepler (1571–1630)
Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695)
Isaac Newton (1642–1726)
Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782)
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
Roger Joseph Boscovich (1711–1787)
Henry Cavendish (1731–1810)
Charles Augustin Coulomb (1736–1806)
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827)
Sir Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) (1753–1814)
Jean-Baptiste Fourier (1768–1830)
Thomas Young (1773–1829)
Andre-Marie Ampere (1775–1836)
Hans Christian Oersted (1777–1851)
Georg Ohm (1789–1854)
Michael Faraday (1791–1867)
George Green (1793–1841)
Joseph Henry (1797–1878)
Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894)
William Thomson (Lord Kelvin of Largs) (1824–1907)
James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)
J. Willard Gibbs (1839–1903)
John William Strutt (Lord Rayleigh) (1842–1919)
Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906)
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (1845–1923)
Joseph John Thomson (1856–1940)
Max Planck (1858–1947)
William Henry Bragg (1862–1942)
Marie Curie (1867–1934)
Robert Millikan (1868–1953)
Ernest Rutherford (Lord Rutherford) (1871–1937)
Lise Meitner (1878–1968)
Otto Hahn (1879–1968)
Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
Paul Ehrenfest (1880–1933)
Max Born (1882–1970)
Niels Bohr (1885–1962)
Frederick Lindemann (Lord Cherwell) (1886–1957)
Erwin Schroedinger (1887–1961)
Louis de Broglie (1892–1987)
Satyendranath Bose (1894–1974)
Piotr Leonidovich Kapitza (1894–1984)
Jean-Frederic Joliot (1900–1958)
Enrico Fermi (1901–1954)
Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976)
Paul Dirac (1902–1984)
J.Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967)
Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906–1972)
Hideki Yukawa (1907–1981)