Who Invented Modern Physics? From Galileo’s Pendulum to Quantum

Modern science is quite young – it was born only four centuries ago, in the era of the Scientific revolution. This books talks about the emergence of new scientific concepts, from the invention of modern physics in the 17th century, to our attempts to understand quantum gravity and the birth of the Universe. The book deals with the turning points in the life of science and with the dramatic fates of its heroes, for example Galilei, Newton, Maxwell, Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Friedmann, Lemaître, Bronstein, Landau, Gamow and Sakharov.

Moscow: Corpus, 2013