Great Solid State Physicists Of The 20th Century

Download or read book Great Solid State Physicists of the 20th Century written by Carmen Arag¢ L¢pez and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2003 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 20th Century has been called the Century of Physics. It could be even more appropriate to call it the Century of Solid State Physics . All the technological developments which had changed the world by the end of the century had been based upon previous scientific developments in Solid State Physics. The Braggs, Debye, Bardeen, Landau were certainly at the forefront of all those revolutionary changes. Contents: The Braggs; Peter Debye; John Bardeen; Lev Davidovich Landau; The Relevance of Materials Science. Readership: Final-year undergraduates, graduate students, teachers, researchers working in materials physics, condensed matter/solid-state physics.