Great physicists from Galileo to Einstein. How the most significant scientific discoveries were made

Georgy Gamov is a world -famous physicist, a brilliant popularizer of science, on the pages of his book illuminates the evolution of scientific ideas from antiquity to the middle of the twentieth century. The author introduces the reader with the discoveries of Archimedes, Kepler, Galileo and other great scientists of the past, clearly reproduces the experiments of Isaac Newton and Michael Faradey, explains the phenomena of quantum mechanics, the principles of atomic and nuclear physics, and the theory of elementary particles. Closing the scientific discoveries of the twentieth century, Georgy Gamov shares his personal memories of Ernest Rutherford, Albert Einstein, Niels Bore and other brilliant physicists with whom he had a chance to work and make scientific discoveries.
The book is illustrated by the drawings and drawings of the author