The Harvest of a Century: Discoveries in Modern Physics in 100 Episodes

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Physics was the leading science of the twentieth century and the book retraces important discoveries, made between 1895 and 2001, in 100 self-contained episodes. Each is a short story of the scientists involved, their time, and their work. Together they form a mosaic of modern physics: formulating relativity and quantum mechanics, finding the constituents of matter and unravelling the forces between them, understanding the working of conductors and semiconductors, discovering and
explaining macroscopic quantum effects (superconductivity, superfluidity, quantum Hall effect), developing novel experimental techniques like the Geiger counter and particle accelerators, building revolutionary applications like the transistor and the laser, and observing astonishing features of our
cosmos (expanding universe, cosmic background radiation). The text is intended for easy reading. Occasionally, a more thorough discussion of experimental set-ups and theoretical concepts is presented in special boxes for readers interested in more detail. Episodes contain extensive references to biographies and original scientific literature. The book is richly illustrated by about 600 portraits, photographs and figures.

The Harvest of a Century: Discoveries in Modern Physics in 100 Episodes Review

Professor Siegmund Brandt of the University of Siegen has quite possibly composed a "Physics Book of a Century", unique in it's format, style, output and information, as the subtitle states : "Discoveries of Modern Physics in 100 Episodes". These 100 episodes are almost all of the twentieth century time period. To quote the Preface : "sometimes an exact date is attributed to the beginning of Modern Physics, 14 December 1900, when Max Planck presented his radiation law". The book is conceived as a string of hundred episodes covering both experimental and theoretical physics, with an episode beginning from 1895 and ending with an episode in 2001, with almost every year in between. While the selection of the topics is arbitrary, the episodes refer to atomic, nuclear and particle physics, to physics of condensed matter, to special and general relativity and to physical properties of the universe. Every episode describes a ground breaking discovery or a turning point in the history of modern physics in a few pages profusely illustrated with portraits, photographs, figures and key references to the vast physics literature. While any episode can be read by a layman, it can also serve a learning tool to a prospective graduate student of physics and a source of information and reference to a veteran scientist in that specialized field. One marvels how so much information has been condensed in so few pages of every episode. Portraits of every major physicist/scientist adorn almost every page, a sight to behold in itself, along with rare portraits of laboratories and institutions where these ground breaking discoveries were made. Advanced theoretical ideas and concepts with main equations are masterfully explained in outlined boxes and facsimiles of important documents are reproduced with stunning details. But perhaps my greatest love for this book is the very many valuable citations to original sources, that it references in adjacent columns of important papers from a vast multitude of European journals. Another outstanding feature of this book is that the name of almost every scientist has along its side, a brief biodata of his birth/death date along with the year that individual won the Nobel Prize.

Quite possibly the most resourceful book in my physics collection, I urge all physicists/scientists and graduate students of pure sciences to give this book their undivided attention. Unquestionably you will learn "a ton" from it. Professor Brandt you have "laboured in love" to produce this masterpiece and have done us physicists a yeomen service. May your book serve us as a valuable reference source for many centuries down the road of time and my hats off to Oxford University Press for publishing this unique masterpiece.

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