eprintid: 19048 rev_number: 29 eprint_status: archive userid: 602 dir: disk0/00/01/90/48 datestamp: 2010-02-01 16:18:35 lastmod: 2015-07-24 14:57:24 status_changed: 2010-02-01 16:18:35 type: book metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Worsley, A. creators_id: AWORS62 title: On the wings of genius: a chronicle of modern physics: Book 1 ispublished: pub subjects: 11000 divisions: F60 note: Maths Editor: Professor Thomas Maibaum. © Copyright 2006 Andrew Worsley abstract: Book description: This book is an essential guide for anyone inquiring about the present and future place of science in humankind's destiny. The subject is the the history and explanation of modern physics. Every so often science moves by large leaps, sometimes spurred by the realization that the commonly held beliefs of the day need revising.One such great change occurred at the turn of the twentieth century, when there was a revolution in modern scientific thinking. Here the genius and ironies behind those discoveries are described. This book has great clarity and removes the shrouds of mystery, which envelop one of contemporary science's greatest challenges. It finds answers to the deepest questions of modern phsyics and ultimately describes a unified design of the Universe, which has truth beauty and symmetry. date: 2005 publisher: Universal Publishers official_url: http://www.universal-publishers.com/book.php?method=ISBN&book=1581124511 vfaculties: VMPS oa_status: green language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green isbn_13: 9781581124514 lyricists_name: Worsley, A lyricists_id: AWORS62 full_text_status: public place_of_pub: Boca Raton, US pages: 118 refereed: TRUE citation: Worsley, A.; (2005) On the wings of genius: a chronicle of modern physics: Book 1. Universal Publishers: Boca Raton, US. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/19048/1/19048.pdf