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
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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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
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    • Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo....

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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 1,790 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
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    • 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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    • 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 393 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 823 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 15,380 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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    • 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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    • 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 6,053 ratings
    • Science Magazine reporter Sam Kean reveals the periodic table as it’s never been seen before....

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    • Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
    • By: David Kaiser
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-27-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 165 ratings
    • The surprising story of eccentric young scientists who stood up to convention—and changed the face of modern physics.....

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    • Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime
    • By: Nicholas L. Syrett
    • Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-23
    • Language: English
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    • For forty years in the mid-nineteenth century, “Madame Restell” sold birth-control medication, attended women during their pregnancies, delivered their children, and performed abortions in a series of clinics run out of her home in New York City....

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    • The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell
    • By: Brian Clegg
    • Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 351 ratings
    • Asked to name a great physicist, most people would mention Newton or Einstein, Feynman or Hawking. But ask a physicist and there’s no doubt that James Clerk Maxwell will be near the top of the list. Maxwell was an unassuming Victorian Scotsman....

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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
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    • 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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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: J. L. Heilbron
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
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    • How does the physics we know today link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and its concern with humankind's place in the universe to modern massive international projects? Listen to learn more....

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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 1,084 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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    • The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science
    • By: Karl Sigmund
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • Exact Thinking in Demented Times tells the often outrageous, sometimes tragic, and never boring stories of the men who transformed scientific thought. A revealing work of history, this landmark book pays tribute to those who dared to reinvent knowledge from the ground up....

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