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| Author(s): | M. McCartney and A. Wjitaker |
| Publisher: | Institute of Physics |
| ISBN: | 0750308664 |
| Format: | hardback |
| 298pp | |
| Price: | Ł40.00 |
| Review Date: | 19 November 2002 |
| Review: | Here physicists with strong Irish roots, such as Stokes, Larmor, Kelvin and Bell are included as well as physicists, such as Schr&0uml;dinger, Heitler and Lanczos who contributed to the scientific field while in Ireland. The book includes 31 chronological chapters, each devoted to the life and works of an individual physicist. It begins with William Petty (1623–1687) whose experience of Ireland began when he became Physician-General of Cromwell’s army there, and goes on to talk about other scientist such as: Callan (who invented the induction coil), Thomas and Howard Grubb (telescope manufacturers), Stokes (known for the Navier-Stokes equations and diffraction theory of light), Haughton (a founder of physical anatomy and pioneer of Earth modelling), Stoney (who developed the concept of an atom or quantum of electricity),and Synge (the mathematician). |