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 421 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 6,219 ratings
    • Science Magazine reporter Sam Kean reveals the periodic table as it’s never been seen before....

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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 77 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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    • 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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    • 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 15,568 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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    • 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 1,098 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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    • 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 471 ratings
    • James Gleick has long been fascinated by the making of science....

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

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    • Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • By: DK
    • Narrated by: Richard Trinder
    • Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Explore the laws and theories of physics in this accessible introduction to the forces that shape our universe, our planet, and our everyday lives....

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    • A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
    • By: David Bodanis
    • Narrated by: Dan Cashman
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 644 ratings
    • Generations have grown up knowing that the equation E=mc2 changed the shape of our world but never understanding what it actually means...

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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 17 ratings
    • The gripping story of Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered nuclear fission....

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    • The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
    • By: James Gleick
    • Narrated by: Dick Estell
    • Length: 20 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 688 ratings
    • From the author of the national best seller Chaos comes an outstanding biography of one of the most dazzling and flamboyant scientists of the 20th century....

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    • Further Adventures of a Curious Character
    • By: Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton
    • Narrated by: Raymond Todd
    • Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,752 ratings
    • Among the book's many tales we meet Feynman's first wife, Arlene, who taught him of love's irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed while he worked nearby on the atomic bomb....

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    • Excursions to the Edge of Thought
    • By: Jim Holt
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 643 ratings
    • From Jim Holt, New York Times best-selling author, comes this entertaining and accessible audiobook guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries....

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    • A Life Inside the Center
    • By: Ray Monk
    • Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
    • Length: 35 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 362 ratings
    • Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men....

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