From Quanta to Quarks

This enlightening book, a sequel to Quips, Quotes, and Quanta, helps readers to understand how physicists think about and look at the world. Starting with the discovery and investigation of cosmic rays, the book proceeds to cover some major areas of modern physics in laymen's terms. Unlike other books that deal with the history of physics, this volume concentrates on anecdotes about the physicists who created the new ideas, with a heavy emphasis on personal incidents and quotes. At the same time it presents, in every day language, the ideas created by these physicists. Both thematic and biographical in nature, readers will be entertained with humorous events in the lives of some famous scientists. Readers will also learn quite a lot about modern physics without the mathematical details, but with the important concepts intact. Book jacket.Capri, Anton Z. is the author of 'From Quanta to Quarks', published 2007 under ISBN 9789812709172 and ISBN 9812709177.