Physics Biography

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    • How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
    • By: Nancy Forbes, Basil Mahon
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 397 ratings
    • Two of the boldest and most creative scientists of all time were Michael Faraday (1791-1867) and James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879). This is the story of how these two men - separated in age by 40 years - discovered the existence of the electromagnetic field....

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    • Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality
    • By: Manjit Kumar
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,794 ratings
    • Quantum theory is weird. As Niels Bohr said, if you aren’t shocked by quantum theory, you don’t really understand it....

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    • By: James Gleick
    • Narrated by: Allan Corduner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 462 ratings
    • James Gleick has long been fascinated by the making of science....

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    • The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
    • By: Albert Einstein
    • Narrated by: Henry Leyva
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • An inspiring collection of essays, in which Albert Einstein addresses the topics that fascinated him as a scientist, philosopher, and humanitarian....

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    • Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
    • By: Gino Segre, Bettina Hoerlin
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 312 ratings
    • Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo....

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    • From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time - A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics
    • By: Walter Lewin, Warren Goldstein
    • Narrated by: Kent Cassella
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 821 ratings
    • As Carl Sagan did for astronomy and Brian Green did for cosmology, Walter Lewin takes listeners on a marvelous journey, opening our eyes to the amazing beauty and power of physics.....

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    • The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity
    • By: Daniel Kennefick
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein's revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became the century's most celebrated scientific experiment. The result ushered in a new era and made Einstein a global celebrity....

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    • How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality
    • By: Paul Halpern
    • Narrated by: Brian Troxell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 394 ratings
    • The story of the unlikely friendship between the two physicists who fundamentally recast the notion of time and history....

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    • Richard Feynman’s Life in Science
    • By: Lawrence M. Krauss
    • Narrated by: Lawrence M. Krauss
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 824 ratings
    • A gripping new scientific biography of the revered Nobel Prize–winning physicist (and curious character) Richard Feynman....

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    • His Life and Universe
    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 21 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15,393 ratings
    • Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos....

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    • And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
    • By: Sam Kean
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,057 ratings
    • Science Magazine reporter Sam Kean reveals the periodic table as it’s never been seen before....

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    • My Battle to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
    • By: Leonard Susskind
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,086 ratings
    • What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed that it did....

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    • Reflections on Physics and Finance
    • By: Emanuel Derman
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • In My Life as a Quant, Emanuel Derman relives his exciting journey as one of the first high-energy particle physicists to migrate to Wall Street. Derman details his adventures in this field....

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    • One Mathematician’s Search for the Universe’s Hidden Geometry
    • By: Shing-Tung Yau, Steve Nadis
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Harvard geometer and Fields medalist Shing-Tung Yau has provided a mathematical foundation for string theory, offered new insights into black holes, and mathematically demonstrated the stability of our universe. In this autobiography, Yau reflects on his improbable journey....

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    • The Giants of Science Series, Book 2
    • By: Kathleen Krull
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Series: The Giants of Science
    • Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • What was Isaac Newton like? Secretive, vindictive, withdrawn, obsessive, and oh, yes, brilliant. His imagination was so large that, just “by thinking on it”, he invented calculus and figured out the scientific explanation of gravity....

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    • The Giants of Science Series, Book 5
    • By: Kathleen Krull
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Series: The Giants of Science
    • Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Albert Einstein: His name has become a synonym for genius. His wild case of bedhead and playful sense of humor made him a media superstar - the first, maybe only, scientist-celebrity....

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    • The Giants of Science Series, Book 4
    • By: Kathleen Krull
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Series: The Giants of Science
    • Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Listeners will emerge from this account with a new appreciation for both the scientific and social advances made by Curie, whose towering achievements justly earn her a place among the "Giants"....

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    • Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and the Meeting That Changed the Course of Science
    • By: Jeffrey Orens
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • A prismatic look at the meeting of Marie Curie and Albert Einstein and the impact these two pillars of science had on the world of physics, which was in turmoil, The Soul of Genius also reveals the human side of these brilliant scientists....

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    • The Life of Lise Meitner
    • By: Marissa Moss
    • Narrated by: Sandy Rustin
    • Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • The gripping story of Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered nuclear fission....

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