Great physicists: the life and times of leading physicists from Galileo to Hawking

Mechanics. Historical synopsis. How the heavens go / Galileo Galilei

A man obsessed / Isaac Newton. Thermodynamics. Historical synopsis. A tale of two revolutions / Sadi Carnot

On the dark side / Robert Mayer

A holy undertaking / James Joule

Unities and a unifier / Hermann Helmholtz

The scientist as virtuoso / William Thomson

The road to entropy / Rudolf Clausius

The greatest simplicity / Willard Gibbs

The last law / Walther Nernst. Electromagnetism. Historical synopsis. A force of nature / Michael Faraday

The scientist as magician / James Clerk Maxwell. Statistical mechanics. Historical synopsis. Molecules and entropy / Ludwig Boltzmann. Relativity. Historical synopsis. Adventure in thought / Albert Einstein. Quantum mechanics. Historical synopsis. Reluctant revolutionary / Max Planck

Science by conversation / Niels Bohr

The scientist as critic / Wolfgang Pauli

Matrix mechanics / Werner Heisenberg

Wave mechanics / Erwin Schrödinger and Louis de Broglie. Nuclear physics. Historical synopsis. Opening doors / Marie Curie

On the crest of a wave / Ernest Rutherford

Physics and friendships / Lise Meitner

Complete physicist / Enrico Fermi. Particle physics. Historical synopsis. i · [delta] [psi] = m [psi] / Paul Dirac

What do you care? / Richard Feynman

Telling the tale of the quarks / Murray Gell-Mann. Astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology. Historical synopsis. Beyond the galaxy / Edwin Hubble

Ideal scholar / Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Affliction, fame, and fortune / Stephen Hawking.