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Physics

Physics Eugene P. Wigner: Is Mankind Bright Enough to Survive? (Feb 1986) Rosalyn Yalow: Speaking Out in Science (Aug 1986) Hannes Alfvén: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents (May 1988) Josiah Willard Gibbs: Inroads in Thermodynamics (Jun 1988) Irving Langmuir: A Living Legacy (Jun 1990) Glenn Seaborg: Transuranium Pioneer (Jul 1991) Michael Faraday: Founder of Field Theory (Sep 1991) Edward Teller: Shaping an Uncertain Future (Jun 1993) Wilhelm Roentgen: Lifting the Veil (Nov 1995) James Clerk Maxwell: Ordering the Foundations (Mar 1996) T.D. Lee: An East-West Physicist (May 1998) Richard Feynman: Brilliant Scientist and 'Curious Character' (Aug 1998) Ernest Rutherford: The Atomic Physics Maestro (Jun 2001) Philip Morrison: From the Infinitesimal to the Cosmic (Jan 2003) Physics and Compassion: The World as Einstein Saw It (Apr 2005)