Stories about great discoveries and great scientists.
The history of science is a thousand-act drama. A drama not only of ideas, but also of their creators.
From this book you will learn:
about the law of floating bodies;
about the law of universal gravitation;
about galvanic electricity;
about electrolysis;
about electromagnetism;
about thermoelectricity;
about X-rays;
about radioactivity;
about electromagnetic waves;
about the structure of the atom;
about the Wilson chamber;
about interference of X-rays;
about chain branching reactions
and many other discoveries.
You will also learn about the lives
of
Archimedes;
Isaac Newton;
Luigi Galvani;
Alessandro Volta;
Humphry Davy;
Hans Ersted;
Wilhelm Röntgen;
Henri Becquerel;
Ernest Rutherford;
Charles Wilson;
Max Laue;
Abram Ioffe;
Nikolai Semenov
and other scientists who made these discoveries.